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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas View Post
I let the computer go to sleep and tried waking it up. Desktop came up without icons. Task bar icons were not there and it didn't show icon for computer being connected to internet. I hit control/alt/delete and got a blue screen. Nothing after that so I shut it off via the power strip. Turned it back on and logged in as usual. Changed the screen saver to 'Show login screen' on waking and it seemed to work fine when it went to sleep.
I just got a pop-up from AVG saying I have 181 broken registry items.
Maybe I'll run that and see if that helps.
I have a similar problem with my Desktop running Windows 10. But a lot of the time the desktop is "frozen". Try right clicking on the desktop. That seems to wake it up.
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