NB: While fences was running, I could Disable it ... which restored my Desktop. I was told to run purge.bat ... which destroyed the entire setup ... And the code that was valid for the initial install is declared invalid now ... Now all you do is tell me to jump through yet more hoops ... All I need is a code for Fences so I can Disable it. (After uninstall and uninstall and Purge and Purge and Purge with reboot to
Right, will do. back soon Addendum: "If asked to ReBoot, select no" or words to that effect. (I can't rerun this, so this is only approximately correct.) I'll do that and re-install.
Not sure it's an issue. I ended up with Start8. I need Start10. Nothing complicated.
When I logged in to find nothing but a black screen ... totally blank ... empty ... if I wasn't pretty much a propeller-head geek I'd have been royally screwed, if you'll forgive the vernacular. ^ CTRL-Alt-Del gave me TaskMaster. ^ "Open File Location" gave me access to programs. ^ C:\Windows\explorer.exe was my best bet ... and it worked. A regular M$ blue desktop with all icons. ( Were the icons Fenced? I can't be sure that they were not.
UpDate - In a larger post I read that I could use Start8 to upgrade to Start10. That would have settled things. Start8 will not install on Win10, so I'm still stuck with it. looking forward to resolution /bdt
Hi Basj - Thanks for response. Mañana basis; not at all critical . will do / cheers --ben p.s. very odd. when I put in a line break, font size went lilliputian! ==ben
Along with a nice little heap of very pleasant software, I got Start 8 ... from what should have brought me Start 10. I have the key. But have opted /not/ to try installing it. Some way to exchange? new customer / quite happy /bdt
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