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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:46 PM
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Help! I messed with some some proceses in task manager & my desktop shrunk
down to 1/2 the size of my computer screen!!!! I tried to fix it in display settings. No luck.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:50 PM
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1. Have you rebooted?
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:54 PM
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2. yeah.
Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 10:54 PM by henslee
am i screwed?
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:02 PM
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3. Have you tried a system restore?
Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 11:02 PM by Cobalt Violet
Restore to a point like yesterday.
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:07 PM
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5. tried but I think my syst. And now that its on I cant move cursor back
in time.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:02 PM
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4. Was something messed up before you did that?
Have you tried a cold reboot?
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:09 PM
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6. Yeah my pc was spazzing out and there was superfunky processes in the
Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 11:12 PM by henslee
task monitor and I was checking them out online. I never deleted one permenantly, just ended a few processes. And then I rebooted. And then my world caved in. Sigh. Not freaking out too bad this machine is on its last legs.
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:20 PM
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7. Fixed it!. Thanks everyone. Sometimes you just gotta work through it....
It seems I accidently must have removed components ofmy vga monitor controller which I then downloaded automatically.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:24 PM
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8. ...
:toast:
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