I have learned . . .
@GardenGerty (169474)
United States
May 31, 2023 7:35pm CST
I have learned that I can do a Legacy reboot on my desktop
when I find the thumb drive that came with it.
For quite a while I had it taped to the computer tower, and I will examine that more closely tomorrow.
I did not throw it away, but a cat could have found it to play hockey with.
Or it could be in one of many "safe places" around my desk. I will look tomorrow. I just figured this out this evening.
I understand it is not uncommon to put things away so that they will not get lost and to end up not able to find them. I hope that is not the case for me.
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EDIT I found it easily but it was not what I thought it was. It was a way to connect to the wifi.
That does not solve my problem
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
@DaddyEvil I will have to look into that. For now, just to make life bearable I have plugged the mouse and keyboard into the laptop. Takes care of its jumping around so much. The jumping is likely aggravated because I have a tremor.
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@DaddyEvil (174405)
• United States
2 Jun 23
@GardenGerty I had to turn the sensitivity down on my built-in mouse pad on my laptop. I tend to rest the heel of my palm on it while I'm typing and every movement to type resulted in my screen changing sizes. After I adjusted the sensitivity, that has stopped.
Plugging in a mouse stops that problem, too. You're over-riding the laptop's programming by doing that.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
I was able to find what I was looking for but it was not what I needed.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
I found what I was looking for, but it was not what I needed.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
It ACTUALLY was close at hand, but was not for that purpose.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
@rebelann I certainly could be a Murphy's Law.
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@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
1 Jun 23
I hope you find it. I have put something down when I'm thinking about something else. Not a good move.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
My sister and I called that "automatic hands". They just go about their business without ever connecting with the brain.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
The way I understand it, it is a reboot from a copy of the original files.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
2 Jun 23
@GardenGerty okay. Is that so? Sorry I am not familiar about computer's terms.
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
1 Jun 23
I have no idea about Legacy Heather..good luck and hope you dont lose anything.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
Legacy just means it is a copy of an old disk as I understand.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
Found what I was looking for but it was not what I needed.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
1 Jun 23
I had actually put it into a file box with my passwords on file cards.
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@LadyDuck (502427)
• Italy
2 Jun 23
@GardenGerty I am glad you found it. I also have all my passwords noted in a notebook that I keep in our safe. Should I forget I can check... hoping to remember the combination of the safe.
