Visual Studio Code extensions disappeared after changing the name of my PC - visual-studio-code

Visual Studio Code extensions disappeared after changing the name of my PC, and the extensions automatically get uninstalled now. I have an extensions folder in my .vscode folder, but they aren't showing up in VSC.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling vsc but it doesn't work and the extensions still won't stay installed. I changed "My PC" name to a name with no spaces because I kept getting this error:
Name in the package.json file has illegal characters" error
After changing "My PC" to a name with no spaces, then that error went away but now my extensions are gone.

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