Two quick computer questions?

Question

Okay, so I accidentally pressed a couple weird buttons or something, and messed up a few settings on my computer. They should be easy fixes, but I can't figure them out.

First, the taskbar seems to be "hiding underneath" my Explorer window. Auto-hide is off, "keep on top of other windows" is on, and I've tried locking and unlocking it. When I click out of Explorer, it's there. But when I'm on the internet, it stays hidden underneath the page, so I have to press the little Windows button next to Alt to get it to show up.

Second of all, I did something to my toolbar as well. Before, the little search box was at the bottom of the toolbar, and now it's at the top. Not serious, I understand, but it is a bit irritating, and it should be easy enough to set back to normal.

Thank you,

John

Answer 1

Sounds like your Internet Explorer is in full-screen mode. Try pressing F11 in IE to exit full-screen mode.

I just tested IE7 and it seems that it remembers if it was in full-screen mode when you last used it, so it sounds like you closed IE when it was in full-screen so now it stays in full-screen until you turn it off.

Answer 2

Safe Mode Bootup

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Try this, its easy and will not harm anything

Slowly tap the F8 key while the computer is powering up

Just after the screen goes blank, the F8 key will point the computer to a menu where safe mode can be selected.

Note if you mistakenly tap F8 key again, it will continue through to normal boot

Scroll and select last known good configuration.

This is stronger than doing a system restore in normal mode. See list..

System restore is the first line of restoration.

The second line is last good configuration.

The third line is system restore in safe mode.

The fourth line is repair from your disk recovery console.

The fifth line is a delete partition with clean install.