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Repairing Pavilion dv6-1230us
BumFuzzled:
In response, Boggin ... " What version of Windows are you using and have you tried creating a new admin account without a password to see if it's a Profile issue ? "... There is Windows Vista on this old machine ~ please don't run!
And your question about creating a new Admin account sounds like what I thought might be the issue ~ I think I might have tinkered in that area and somehow messed something up - but I can't find it now and I am afraid to change anything if I do find it :rolleyes:
The red text errors / not really warnings are when you right click on the google background and select the last item, INSPECT. That brings up a whole mess of stuff I can't begin to decipher! I am guessing it's all computer talk for the google screen set up ? There is a section at the bottom for FAILED TO LOAD info - turns out it's webpages that didn't open up correctly. I can see this better on my desktop screen - similar error messages - apparently no big deal.
Anyway. I will go now and try to understand what it is Julian suggests.
Thank you SO VERY much for your help!
BumFuzzled:
Julian ... YIKES !! Unclicking the box for Chrome / Properties / Compatibilities didn't work ... that gave me a box that said 'GC is unresponsive. Relaunch now?' Yes or No ... Yes makes the screen go black and come back supersized again ... no option takes google away and resets screen back to normal size.
I mentioned earlier that I keep referring to GC, but it's not just GC ... it's any icon on the screen that leads to www.? ... whatever. Anything other than a document.. you understand. But I do believe it is an Administrator issue. I know I changed something somewhere, I just don't remember where :(
I will go run the link you gave me now ... Thanks in advance for your time and efforts. Like I told 'boggin', if someone could SEE this supersized screen, I believe it would be instantly understood and fixable. I don't know anyone around here to show it to. And I can't get a screenshot of it ...
BumFuzzled:
Okay, so I ran the AdwCleaner and I'm left with a bunch of stuff I don't know what to do with ... "uncheck what you want to keep" ??? I have no idea! :cry: ... sorry to be so difficult.
Julian:
take a snap shot hit the windows key and pause break button then open paint and hit ctrl and V that should paste the screen shot save it then upload it to the forums via the attach: and hit post and I should be able to see what it says.
BumFuzzled:
:shy: i can't seem to make that work, julian. it's late now - 1130 ... i'll give it a go tomorrow. ~ stephanie
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