6ixStringJack: Go to your thread, Brenda. I'm going to post a few things that are better suited there than the tags.  |
| Brenda: No worries SIX. I just wanted to check. I did the restart last night from the taskbar or blue menu. Everything is okay right now. I'm just nervous about it staying that way is all. I've got a notification in the little corner on the right. I got one yesterday and it froze I couldn't bring it up or it wouldn't come up until I did turn off the monitor and drive after a second time. It froze first then I had to go back out. I did that basic thing and it restarted but it froze again. Sometimes when the taskbar freezes, I hear a ping sound. |
| 6ixStringJack: I think it could be a problem with your display driver/video ram that is persisting between sessions because you haven't done a proper restart yet. There are ways to reset that by itself, but I don't want to confuse you with more weird commands when a restart of Windows should take care of the problem. |
| 6ixStringJack: Sorry Brenda. I went to bed early last night. Yeah. The blue page menu by hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL, with the power button on the bottom right like the picture I posted. That's what you use if the Start Button or task bar is wonky. |
| second: In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear.
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war. [go to link] |
| second: Missiles worth $40 million a shot rack up America's Iran war costs [go to link] "Our thinking is based around these exquisite, boutique, very expensive solutions that will only be able be afforded for a very small number of missiles," he said.
"We can't be continuing on this trajectory if we want to win the next war. We have to fundamentally shift direction." |
| Brenda: I can probability get to my passwords when things aren't frozen. Cause that looks like it is partially frozen as well. I'm not sure. My name is highlighted in blue but page for that is white. Tried the window beside the search bar. It turned blue and the word "start" is stuck above it. |
| Brenda: And that is from that blue page menu? I know stupid question because I just froze everything again by trying something. I wish they still have the books "Windows for Dummies". I can sure use one right about now. |
6ixStringJack: Try a restart. If there aren't any hardware problems, which there likely isn't, everything should be right when it comes back up. You should familiarize yourself with that process anyhow.
One of my PCs is pretty old and has a slow hard drive so it takes about 5 or 6 minutes to restart, so I only do it when I absolutely have to, but eventually things get messed up. It probably takes a lot longer for that to happen to you because you aren't using 40 different programs and you don't have 300 tabs open in 7 windows in Chrome.  |
| Brenda: The icons disappeared from the taskbar. The shortcut is still there. |
| 6ixStringJack: Grow up, loser. |
| second: Trump has made repeated claims about vandals cutting 350-foot slits into the Reflecting Pool — saying at different times they used a knife, a box cutter and a razor. He called the alleged vandals “thugs” and said they were “sick” and “terrible.” But today the Justice Department drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation.
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Grow up, loser. |
| second: America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions
[go to link]
Hampered by career public servants and political appointees who followed traditional democratic norms (refusing to prosecute people merely because the president hates them), Trump was unable to make good on this threat and settled mostly for tweeting out demands that Comey be imprisoned. During his second term, however, Trump has sought to bring criminal charges against anybody who defies or displeases him. He has flexed this power by repeating his claims that Comey was a “dirty cop” who deserved prison, ordering the Justice Department to charge him with crimes, and orchestrating the entire plot in public view. |
| 6ixStringJack: I'm going to have some pictures tonight, Brenda. |
| 6ixStringJack: I'm going to have some pictures tonight, Brenda. |
| 6ixStringJack: When you say your icons disappeared, do you mean from the task bar? Or do you mean shortcuts on the desktop above the task bar?
I think you should do a letgitimate restart, Brenda. You never did one before. You powered it down, which saved the state of the computer and brought that back, more or less, when you booted it back up. A restart will give you a fresh session. Either use the Power/Restart from the Start Button menu, or do the CTRL+ALT+DEL and hit the power button and restart on that menu. |
| Brenda: Icons disappeared but nothing frozen. Afraid to try to bring them back as might freeze taskbar again. |
| second: Later in Trump’s remarks, a reporter asked him if Americans should expect Iranian attacks to continue. Called upon to inspire his countrymen to endure ongoing sacrifice, he replied: “They’ll get weaker. They’ll get a little stronger, maybe, now. But they’ll get weaker, and then they peter out. Uh, yeah, sure. I think so.” Churchill could not have put it better. [go to link] |
| second: Speaking to reporters today about the war with Iran, President Trump delivered an inspiring pep talk praising the courage and resilience of a brave nation retaining its fighting spirit in the face of adversity. Alas, the subject of his praise was the Iranians.
“Their entire navy is laying at the bottom of the sea,” he said. “They had 200 airplanes—they’re all gone. Every one. They don’t have one airplane. They had anti-aircraft weaponry, very good, but it didn’t work, and it’s all gone. Their radar is all gone. Their leaders are all gone. Everything is all gone! But they’ll fight onward.”
It was probably the most Churchillian rhetoric Trump has managed to muster throughout the entire conflict. Iran shall fight on the beaches, they shall fight on the landing grounds, they shall fight in the fields and in the streets, they shall fight in the hills; they shall never surrender. [go to link] |