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<blockquote data-quote="geekylady" data-source="post: 409506" data-attributes="member: 32253"><p>this sounds encouraging and I am keen to try it - but I don't see an Option Key. The apple key is there. Is that the Command Key?</p><p></p><p>ps I just pressed Ctrl-Apple-P-R, hoping these were the right keys. heard no chimes apart from the first boot single chime that comes on the happy mac page, but kept these keys pressed right up to the point where the extensions have loaded and the desktop should present itself.</p><p></p><p>I got the time on the taskbar at the top, followed by the various menus, then the screen flashed for a few seconds and went white except for about two inches of the top bit, then I got a screen up to do with 'assistant' that asked me various config questions, as if this was a new build. I had to cancel that when we got to IP addresses as I don't know what the owners is and I doubt he does either, and so I didn't want to change it for ours. So that box disappeared and I still had the white screen - which flashed a bit more as if it was trying to rebuild, and I still had all the menus, which I could access. What I did not have was any icons, so I got it to restart and this time did not press any keys, and now we are back to same old same old - desktop with no icons and no menus. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geekylady, post: 409506, member: 32253"] this sounds encouraging and I am keen to try it - but I don't see an Option Key. The apple key is there. Is that the Command Key? ps I just pressed Ctrl-Apple-P-R, hoping these were the right keys. heard no chimes apart from the first boot single chime that comes on the happy mac page, but kept these keys pressed right up to the point where the extensions have loaded and the desktop should present itself. I got the time on the taskbar at the top, followed by the various menus, then the screen flashed for a few seconds and went white except for about two inches of the top bit, then I got a screen up to do with 'assistant' that asked me various config questions, as if this was a new build. I had to cancel that when we got to IP addresses as I don't know what the owners is and I doubt he does either, and so I didn't want to change it for ours. So that box disappeared and I still had the white screen - which flashed a bit more as if it was trying to rebuild, and I still had all the menus, which I could access. What I did not have was any icons, so I got it to restart and this time did not press any keys, and now we are back to same old same old - desktop with no icons and no menus. :( [/QUOTE]
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