Double-click hanky-panky on desktop.

[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...

 

[BudV]

Well, this thread is finally terminated.

The problem has gone away, all by itself. I can't think of anything active
that I may have done to fix it, so it just remains an ancient Chinese
secret.

Am I glad it's gone? Yes.

Am I happy? Hell, no. I don't like intermittent errors, and I don't like
problems that mysteriously go away the same way they mysteriously appeared.
If it's my fault, then I want to fix it. If it's someone else's fault, then
I want him to fix it. I only hope that it doesn't come back, and that I
eventually forget about it.

Thank you all for your patience, time, and assistance.

Bud