[A-1-Computer_Tech] Missing All Programs List

2013-06-13 Thread hklass
Donk, I'm responding to you on the site because I can't respond from my gmail account. To recap the situation, we were in the process of opening in Safe Mode to see if the Program list was available from there. I had asked how to open in Safe Mode and you responded to hit F8 until it

Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Missing All Programs List

2013-06-13 Thread Holly
Guess what, I left the computer for a while and gmail is working now. I guess it wouldn't hurt if you gave me suggestions about my computer though because it's been very slow lately. I do a lot of artwork and have a lot of tabs open in Firefox and often two incidents of it with several tabs.

Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Missing All Programs List

2013-06-13 Thread Donk
Yes, doing the system restore can take quite a while until you reboot and get back to the desktop. It sounds like it was successful as far as fixing your system files and getting the All Programs menu back. It shouldn't cause any problems like you describe with Gmail. Is anything besides

Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Missing All Programs List

2013-06-13 Thread Donk
Glad gmail is working better now - might have been a temporary glitch on their side. Suggestions about your PC? I agree you might wanna stick with XP for a while. When I finally upgraded to Win7 64-bit, there were quite a few programs I had to trash. Most of my programs still worked, but a

Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Missing All Programs List

2013-06-13 Thread Holly
Thanks, Donk. I know I have too many programs and don't know what half of them are. Need to do a clean out but I've avoided it because I don't want to remove something that's doing something I may want or need. I went to the site and went through my start up list and unchecked quite a few