All those are gone and will have to be recreated. And anywhere else I could customize the user interface. Custom settings: In operating system, apps, mail.Do I actually have or know where to get all the apps and other things that were on the computer so I can reinstall those, one at a time?.Do I have the operating system so I can reinstall it?.ItвЂ™s going to take a lot of time and while IвЂ™m doing all this work, the computer is out of commission.ItвЂ™s the drastic option none of us really want to take. Do a clean install.Д¬lean and reformat the hard drive. When all else fails, the recommendation is to totally start over from scratch with the computer. Hint: For more about how and why you should be backing up your computer, check out this article: What can you afford to lose? Because all hard drives will eventually fail. I tried some troubleshooting things, like uninstalling the offending app and its libraries from the computer. Because whatever was messed up on the computer had been dutifully copied by the backup. Only problem was, it was at least a few days ago that this odd behavior first happened.

And staring at the screen wasnвЂ™t going to fix it. No matter how much I hated to admit it, somehow that app had gotten corrupted. When I opened that app and tried the task again, there was the same error. Because electronics get befuddled every once in a while too and can benefit from a reset. If it happens twice or the computer doesnвЂ™t seem to run right, we usually first go for the reboot. If that happens once, like me, you probably chalk it up to gremlins. As in вЂdidnвЂ™t do what it was supposed to doвЂ™. I was working away on my computer when an app glitched.

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