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Windows 7 Ultimate - lost control of virtually everything, but that's now solved!
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1040841" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Here's something for you to ponder on - a "virtual" pint for the first one to reach the right conclusion and solution<em> (and it's actually quite "simple") </em>because I think other people could maybe fall into the same trap.</p><p></p><p>I'll start with the basic situation, and then drop a few clues as we go along.</p><p></p><p>Over the last few days, and then again yesterday morning, I was trying to uninstall a number of unwanted programmes (notably Avast Free A/V which must have accidently got side-loaded with something else!) using</p><p>- first, the Windows Control Panel "Programmes & Features" route, but that was not very successful</p><p>- second, Revo uninstaller - again not very successful</p><p>- thirdly the uninstall feature in IOLO System Mechanic Pro which I had never tried before, but didn't seem to do very much either and so I aborted that.</p><p></p><p>Everything then seemed OK <em>at the time</em>, although the laptop screen went rather dim whilst the extended desktop on the monitor was fine.</p><p></p><p>Rebooted the m/c to try to fix the laptop screen issue - only to find that almost nothing now worked (Office with a message that the licence details could not be confirmed, and the network adapters and connections didn't connect). Same thing happened on several more reboots <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sad.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad :(" data-shortname=":(" />.</p><p></p><p>- and then I did some more things, but I leave those for the next clue after your first thoughts/guesses!</p><p></p><p>..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1040841, member: 176704"] Here's something for you to ponder on - a "virtual" pint for the first one to reach the right conclusion and solution[I] (and it's actually quite "simple") [/I]because I think other people could maybe fall into the same trap. I'll start with the basic situation, and then drop a few clues as we go along. Over the last few days, and then again yesterday morning, I was trying to uninstall a number of unwanted programmes (notably Avast Free A/V which must have accidently got side-loaded with something else!) using - first, the Windows Control Panel "Programmes & Features" route, but that was not very successful - second, Revo uninstaller - again not very successful - thirdly the uninstall feature in IOLO System Mechanic Pro which I had never tried before, but didn't seem to do very much either and so I aborted that. Everything then seemed OK [I]at the time[/I], although the laptop screen went rather dim whilst the extended desktop on the monitor was fine. Rebooted the m/c to try to fix the laptop screen issue - only to find that almost nothing now worked (Office with a message that the licence details could not be confirmed, and the network adapters and connections didn't connect). Same thing happened on several more reboots :(. - and then I did some more things, but I leave those for the next clue after your first thoughts/guesses! .. [/QUOTE]
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