Full screen mode HELP!

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Bufford

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Somehow I really screwed up and pushed the wrong buttons and entered 'full screen mode'. I cannot use the internet or go anywhere for that matter unless I can get the toolbar back at the top of the screen.

I am using Vista, with internet explorer with Avant browser.

I want to send a short letter to 3 of our MPs who were going to vote to scrap the gun registery later this month but have since reversed their decision and have sided with the police instead of the people in this country.

Sorry to bother, but computers totally overwhelm me.
 
Not familiar with your setup but can you mouse down to the bottom of page, see if that pops up a toolbar down there with an X in the lower right to shrink the display.
 
I tried right clicking at the bottom of the screen and I can enter Avant Browser Options when I bring up a menu that includes customize and click on it, but then it's like looking at the cockpit of the space shuttle- all unfamiliar territory.

When I click on the left, I bring up stuff like the computer clock, and other stuff including the antivirus program, but I stopped clicking on these because the screen started doing strange things, and I really do not know what I am doing, which is how I got in trouble in the first place.
 
Glad to help. I run in fullscreen mode all the time. Leaving the mouse pointer at the top of the screen for a couple of seconds should cause the toolbar to appear in fullscreen, then you can proceed the way you are used to. I've done it so long it is second nature to me, but I've seen it frustrate other people to tears.
 
I was having that happen too as I moved the mouse around on the screen near the top. I was beginning to think that I picked up a virus. I remember having this happen before, I pressed every button on the keyboard hoping to find it but nothing happened. I had to press the F11 key a couple of times and then the tool bar returned.

One thing changed though in that I have several new links from my favorites/bookmark list across the top of the screen above the regular tool bar.

Using computers is not one of my strengths, I had very weak language skills when I was in school way back, and could not learn a second language. This makes it difficult to interface and use a computer.

We had our first computers arrive at work at the time I took my retirement. I saw that white box with the little screen on top and didn't know a damned thing about them, and neither did most of my co-workers. It was perfect timing for me to go:)
 
I seem to be the perfect age for computers. The first programmable calculators appeared when I was in high school, and I've just followed along as things advanced.

If you want to get rid of those extra links, you can do so easily enough. Place the mouse cursor on the toolbar. Click the right mouse button. A menu will appear with a list of toolbars available. Click the checkmark next to Favorites Bar so it disappears. So will the exta links.
 
yablanowitz said:
I seem to be the perfect age for computers. The first programmable calculators appeared when I was in high school, and I've just followed along as things advanced.
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The first programmable calculators appeared when I got out of the Air Force, but by then I was already hooked on sliderules. :p
 
I went through Navy Nuclear Power School in the last class of slipstick users. We could use calculators for homework, but the exams were sliderule only. I've still got my round sliderule somewhere. Back in the day, I was faster with it than most people were with a calculator. :D
 
I wish I still had my round sliderule. I don't know what happened to it! I used a Breitling Navitimer for estimating flight times but the bigger rule was easier to work with.
 
I learned a couple of things through all of this. I learned how F11 works, and on Sunday a friend taught me over the phone on how to send an attachment on email. I know that this is just a scrape off of the surface, but they could not possibly make a machine more user unfriendly than a PC, because one button can perform so many different functions.

Not having had the advantage of computers back in the day I went to school puts people like me at a greater disadvantage. But it can't be all bad, heck I made it up over 3,000 posts so far. Some day I will figure out the picture posting thing.:)
 
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