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Old 08-06-2019, 05:07 AM   #10
Carruthers
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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My thanks go to Undertoad, BigV and sexobon for the time and effort expended to help me out.

Right, here comes the embarrassing bit.

Having gone through all the measures proposed yesterday evening and then again this morning, the penny dropped with a sickening thud.

You'll recall that right clicking on an icon resulted in a menu appearing but left clicking on an option did not bear fruit.

Eventually it occurred to me that the fault might be with my cordless mouse.

After some searching I found a corded mouse, plugged in and, mirabile dictu, all was well.

I'm sorry to have troubled you all. I suppose that its an object lesson in looking for the simplest explanation first.

Also, it spurred me on to backing up documents and pictures to an external drive in the last half an hour or so.

I was truly worried that they might have disappeared forever.

Once again, many thanks.
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