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Sun, May 22, 11 at 16:23
| Hi folks,
Yes, I realize the subject is lousy wording, but that's all I could think of. X-P, SP-3. Was working great UNTIL I decided to take the sides off the HP Pavilion a420n and clean the dust and cobwebs from the inside. All went well until I started up. My many desk top icons are really scattered, they are still there, but like I said, scattered. The machine is very slow now. I went to control panel thinking a restore point before today would do the trick, well, I can't find where it gives choices for a date to go back to. And it is turned on. Dunno' how I can wreck a simple chore like this. Needless to say, I need help again. Thanks to all who answer. Steve |
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| When you were cleaning out the inside, did you bang any parts in there with a vacumn nozzle?? Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools System restore Or, why not just move the desktop icons back to where they were..Do you have the anti spyware program Malwarebytes on your computer..if not, suggest you download it, install it, update it, then run it...when googling for it, its Malwarebytes free download |
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- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Sun, May 22, 11 at 18:55
| right click on desktop and select to organize your icons you can do it in various patterns. There is a great little app I use that will save all your icon settings so anytime things like this happen it will put them all back. Icon Restore System Restore |
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- Posted by esteban_2009 (My Page) on Sun, May 22, 11 at 19:11
| genes & RC, Once again I am deply indebted to you two. My computer is operating smoothly like it was two days ago. System Restore saved my bacon again. Steve |
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