In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:35:45 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:24:23 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:20:08 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:56:37 -0600, Rene
Lamontagne wrote:

On 2019-11-13 11:22 a.m., micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 13 Nov 2019 03:38:30 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:

I finally got FIOS today, and by coincidence, or not, there have been
several windows 10 changes just afterwards.

Another problem
10), probably related to 7) above is that when I right click on the
blank desktop, no menu comes up. Nothing happens.
I installed 1909 from a DVD (in a VM), then installed Open Shell,
and no problems noted.

Some of your issues sound a lot like "Tablet Mode".
And Tablet Mode auto-switches by default, but, the
software needs to see critical hardware items such as
a touchscreen.

Is this machine touchscreen enabled ?
Well the machine might?? be, but I have no touchscreen.
There should be a setting to disable Tablet Mode,
and while Settings wheel is running, you can type
Tablet Mode into the search.

Paul
Okay, I did that and then I set it to Use Desktop Mode, instead of Use
the appropriate mode for my hardware. We'll see what happens on
restart.

BTW, I'm in safe mode now and, except for the notifications problem,
which I solved earlier, all the problems are still here. I'll go over
this point by point when I get back to regular mode.

YOU WERE RIGHT. THAT SOLVED IT! Thank you so much.

What would I have done without you. What do other people do who don't
know about Usenet? I googled many of the symptoms and found nothing.

And why is MS changing my mode a) for no good reason, b) without telling
me? If mode is subject to change, why isn't it displayed prominently
all the time? I guess it mistakenly thought it had tablet-style
hardware. That's bad too.

Everything works again. To set up the win7 computer, I'd have to clean
the pile of papers from next to the spare computer, remove and wipe its
hard drive, install 7, and reinstall or copy over everything. I wasn't
looking forward to that.

I have a tendency to jump to conclusions based on
thin evidence.

Some of your symptoms match the behavior of Tablet Mode,
and it's easier to postulate Tablet Mode doing it, than
cook up some much longer explanation that isn't likely
to pan out. You have way too many symptoms for a simple
"single subsystem failure". You had a three-ring-circus
of failures.

Paul

I thought about it being one cause, but I had no idea what. I didn't
even know there was a tablet mode.