Windows 10 Problems

You may have accidentally turned on Tablet Mode. If so, here's how to turn it off:
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3755-tablet-mode-turn-off-windows-10-a.html



Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Dan,

No luck. I can not get to the settings. The start button will not work. The Win + P is the button
between the control and the alt right?

Dave

Tablet Mode is just speculation on my part, that *could* be it. Yes, the Win key is between control and alt; it (usually) has a Windows logo on it. You should be able to turn Tablet Mode off and on with just key strokes.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

Mine did that..... I turned off the latest programme I had put on and it brought them back

Have you tried Ctrl + alt del?

Restart?

You can try restoring it to the last stable update. Windows also doesn't seem to like being restarted with an external hard drive attached sometimes.

Adding to Adam's post; do you have an external drive attached? If so it could be throwing the boot sequence into a tail spin. If not try and restore the system to the last time it was working good. I've heard some "stuff" about Windows 10. Haven't gone there yet.

My laptop won't boot up with external drive attached but that doesn't sound like the problem David is having. If he can somehow get to a previous restore point that should fix it at least temporarily.

I refuse to install Windows 10 until/unless they get the bugs out. It is lurking in the background however and has made some unauthorized changes.

It was late last night when I finally logged off, 2 am. I slept in this morning.
Getting back on the computer, booting up, the machine went through a very long updating process.

The machine is now fully functional.

I think the updated did not announce itself last night. That is why the task bar was non operational. With the icons missing.

Everything is mysteriously well.

Thanks for offering your help everyone. I did run a sfc scannow and there were no corrupted files. I ran Avast and no viruses etc.....
Nothing but an update on the bootup this morning.

Dave