cmos CMOS clear changed windows settings/files

[Chrober24]

I had to use the clear cmos button on my motherboard because I had enabled fast boot which completely locked me out of my bios for some reason (the option didn't appear in the troubleshoot restart menu). I now have access to my bios again, but some folders on my desktop are missing. I looked it up before and every source said that it only changes bios settings. But it seems to have reverted windows to an earlier recovery point or something. Files that I had deleted from my desktop weeks ago appeared when windows booted and folders/files I had on my desktop before clearing cmos are gone. my downloads folder contained files from weeks ago as well and not some files I downloaded today. Everything on my storage drives is intact and I don't necessarily need the files that disappeared, but i would like to know what happened. 

 

I also had some display issues on my first boot after clearing where it took about 2 minutes for my pc to sort out the dual display. 

 

Can anyone explain?

[Chrober24]

1 hour ago, Chrober24 said:

I had to use the clear cmos button on my motherboard because I had enabled fast boot which completely locked me out of my bios for some reason (the option didn't appear in the troubleshoot restart menu). I now have access to my bios again, but some folders on my desktop are missing. I looked it up before and every source said that it only changes bios settings. But it seems to have reverted windows to an earlier recovery point or something. Files that I had deleted from my desktop weeks ago appeared when windows booted and folders/files I had on my desktop before clearing cmos are gone. my downloads folder contained files from weeks ago as well and not some files I downloaded today. Everything on my storage drives is intact and I don't necessarily need the files that disappeared, but i would like to know what happened. 

 

I also had some display issues on my first boot after clearing where it took about 2 minutes for my pc to sort out the dual display. 

 

Can anyone explain?

I noticed some programs I had pinned to my taskbar were missing as well and a program that uses online licensing told me that the license was already in use on my computer and I could not deactivate it without contacting their support. My recycling bin was also full of over 100gb of data that i had deleted and cleared from the bin weeks ago. What is going on?

[Chrober24]

okay, I keep finding things that have changed. Some software that I had was completely uninstalled, including afterburner which i used to control gpu fan curves. This almost resulted in my gpu overheating while rendering with octane. 

 

Can somebody please explain what happened? Did I just misunderstand what the cmos clear does or did something happen that shouldn't have? I keep looking online and everything says that it should only affect bios