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Gene E. Bloch
The hyphens might be an Australian thing.
I tried to make the distinction between reboot and restart, and I'm not sure
I got through to her. You're right. In my opinion, reboot means powering
down, and restart doesn't. I'm convinced that this is a software thing, not
a hardware thing, and therefore restarting should be all that's required,
but since she was helping me, I wasn't going to fight with her about it.
In any event, she did point me in the right direction on this thing. I
don't think the two other fixes (icon cache and hibernation) have anything
to do with it. I experimented a lot with changing the themes, and at first
I thought I was having some success, but it was short-lived. My daughter
felt it wasn't that big a deal -- more of small nuisance -- so I gave up.
But dammit, you can't be a persnickety programmer for 50+ years and leave a
bug lying around. Now that you've been exposed to the new clues, do you
have any other insights that might help? I'm ready to call Microsoft and
pay for a fix. That could be messy, though, because they would use
Easy-Assist to take over my machine, which is fine with me, but since it
involves rebooting/restarting, we would be constantly breaking and
re-establishing the connection; thereby providing a pain where a pill can't
reach.
I'm glad you're still watching. I need the moral support,
As long as you don't need *technical* support
I keep forgetting to look when I boot - or start - my computer ;-)
I am currently using Fences, which might hide any effect similar to your
problem, even if I try to look...