In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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I hate it when things like this happen.
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Originally posted by BRENDA:
Said in your other thread I am at library. I also talked to two computer places around here and they say do a restart but I am so nervous.
I have the zoom set around 100% but the icons have been looking bigger.
I've been looking at google and asking questions. Dumb I know. It says use windows key + D or control+ shift +esc.
I am very confused right now.
I don't blame you for being confused. You know what you're looking at on your screen about as well as I do without being able to see it.
You NEED to try that restart again. I updated the other thread with a picture of where that power button is, but I'll post it here again now. You need to click on that and it will open up a menu with 3 or 4 options and you need to select "Restart". If it is not a Magnifier Tool or another accessibility setting, this should get you fixed.
Just be sure to look at that other thread and write down the 4 commands I gave you to try if this doesn't fix the issue. I believe it will, but just in case one of those four should fix it.
It's not dumb to look at Google for the answer. That's what I've been doing ever since you disappeared last night.
The only way I ever got as good at computers as I am today was by "breaking" things all the time and then needing to learn how to fix them. And once the internet was a part of my life, most of that research was done online.
Just look at this as another real reminder that you should have a second computer or even better a cheap laptop. That way you can still get online and we can troubleshoot these things in real time instead of only when you can get to a library and you're not sitting right next to the computer you're trying to fix.
We'll fix this. Just breathe.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Wow! I see I have a lot of catching up on you!
But not now. I'm gonna take ... a ... zzzz ...
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I still have a sinus infection so a bit under the weather.
ANOTHER bad storm, SIX???
Crap!
Over here, the weather is stuck, unusually, at "hot and humid".
Welcome to global climate change!
Wow, that kitchen was butt ugly, wasnt it?
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BRENDA, IDK if you can read this. I wish I could help but I don't know much about Windows. Sorry.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I still have a sinus infection so a bit under the weather.
Bummer. Hope you get some sleep and feel better tomorrow.
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ANOTHER bad storm, SIX???
Crap!
Yeah... Not nearly as bad as the last one though. Must have been pretty bad with over 60,000 customers affected overall from my power company, but they were spread out much further east of the state this time and not all concentrated in NWI and Chicago.
I never would have thought it was all that bad actually, since my neighbors 2 doors down across the street and everyone else on down still had their power. We're on the "old circuit" somebody who used to live here once told me. Usually when I have a power outage it's anywhere from 2 hours to 5 hours. This was only about 4. And it didn't even feel like it because I was working most of the time. Most of my power outages happen after dark, so I'm not usually able to do that.
I can't believe that there isn't a huge limb down from that tree. I snapped some pictures as evidence. There appears to be about a 50 ft. dual limb that was snapped off in the last storm and is hanging on by a thread like the Sword of Damocles over my house right now. The whole tree is bright green except for about the 5% that's all dead and just waiting to come crashing down on my roof the next time the winds come hard from the south.
Really pissed it didn't fall. Both storms yesterday were from the Northwest and then the North East later in the day.
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Over here, the weather is stuck, unusually, at "hot and humid".
Welcome to global climate change!
Meh... 2020 was 10 times as bad as this, and we've had some pretty decent summers in between. Last year sucked, but without all the rain and humidity. It was just 90 degrees every day for about 2 months.
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Wow, that kitchen was butt ugly, wasnt it?
Yeah... Just awful.
Like I said, I have to give the woman who lived here before me credit for all the hard work, between that, the kid's clown room, the garish shiny silver paint sponge job over the purple/blue master bedroom accent wall, the yellow and puke green walls in the living room and the contact paper covering every square inch of that linen closet. It was just all so ugly though, and nothing in the house went together. You could look at pictures of all the different rooms and not even suspect they were from the same house.
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BRENDA, IDK if you can read this. I wish I could help but I don't know much about Windows. Sorry.
Yeah... We'll figure it out. It's just unfortunate she's in a position now where we can't communicate unless she's at the library. When she did manage to write from there yesterday, I didn't come back around until over an hour later probably long after she left.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Sorry about the sinuses SIG. Been there and that hurts.
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Hi SIX. I bit the built and did a restart this morning. Really basic turned off the monitor and the drive then turned everything back on. Walked away and let it do its thing.
As I said in the other thread. This is a refurbished drive and the monitor was as well until it died earlier this year. I am thinking I may have to call the person who got it for me and let him know it might be on its last legs.
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Also SIX, the Chrome updates that was in the upper right corner, because I wouldn't deal with it. Could that have caused a problem? I doubt but I am just asking.
And I could have hit another key on Monday as I said both my hands were shaking.
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66F where I am right now. Couldn't go back to sleep after putting this thing into restart. Fingers crossed all stays good.
Will take meds then head out on a warmer and drier day than yesterday.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Hi SIX. I bit the built and did a restart this morning. Really basic turned off the monitor and the drive then turned everything back on. Walked away and let it do its thing.
Nice... Yeah. I just saw that and posted in the thread for you.
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As I said in the other thread. This is a refurbished drive and the monitor was as well until it died earlier this year. I am thinking I may have to call the person who got it for me and let him know it might be on its last legs.
Nothing you've told me so far makes me think that the computer is dying, but you never know. Like I've been saying, you should have a backup laptop. It doesn't have to be expensive or even new. As long as it can run at least Windows 10 and get you on the internet even temporarily while things like this happen, it's so much better for you than worrying and trying to catch me or somebody else while at the library.
And if you had that laptop and your computer does die, you at least have a way to still get online while you're figuring out another desktop solution.
In the meantime, please answer these questions.
1. Do you still have your book backed up on at least one thumb drive?
2. Do you know all of your online passwords?
3. If you don't know them all, do you know how to backup your passwords? (You can also backup other settings in your browser, such as all of your bookmarks).
Any backups you make should also be copied to your thumbdrive with your book on it. That way, if your computer dies, you can use the same browser on your new computer (and also a backup laptop right now) and you can import all of those things and it will behave exactly as it did before your computer died.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Also SIX, the Chrome updates that was in the upper right corner, because I wouldn't deal with it. Could that have caused a problem? I doubt but I am just asking.
I could never say for sure, but I seriously doubt it. If Google was holding computers hostage like that for refusing to update, I know I would have heard about that story already.
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And I could have hit another key on Monday as I said both my hands were shaking.
Occam's Razor here leads me to believe that this is probably the culprit. There are an awful lot of hidden "hotkey" combinations that can do a wide variety of things from copying and pasting text, to sticky shift keys, to blowing up the image on your screen 200%, and I'm sure at least 100 things I'm not even aware it's capable of doing.
I wouldn't let that bother you. 99% of the time that you do something like that on accident, as long as you know how to restart the computer it should fix the problem when it comes back up just like it did now.
Glad to see you're back, Brenda.
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