Yeah, sorry if this is in the totally wrong section.
Yesterday, I tried to start up Half-Life: Source for the first time. It crashed on me, and apparently the background image got stuck and plastered over the rest of my screen. I could still access the windows "behind" the image, but I couldn't tell what I was doing. For instance, I could resize my Steam window, because I saw my cursor change to those two little arrows when I placed them where my Steam window's edges would be.
However, no matter how many times I pressed Control-Alt-Delete, the Task Manager would not come "in front" of the stupid picture of Xen that blocked my view of everything. Then I started mashing Alt-F4, the Windows button, escape, I even combined some of them. Then I started mashing buttons and clicking randomly. I didn't want to restart my computer because I was typing something and I hadn't saved it.
Finally, the stupid picture disappeared and I could see my desktop. However, the task manager looked like this for some reason.
[img]http://a.imageshack.us/img72/3346/taskmanagertrouble.jpg[/img]
The whole top bar was gone. I couldn't exit the window because there's no "X" in to corner. I couldn't minimize it either because that button was gone. There was no way to get rid of it, so I just moved it into the corner and restarted my computer hoping that would solve the problem. But it didn't, and the same thing happened today.
If there's a way to get that top bar back, can someone please let me know. I'm really not technologically inclined, but I obviously know how to work a computer. Thanks for any help.
Again, sorry if this is the wrong section to post this. It seemed to be a "Windows problem".
Your computer probably had a really big glitch. I would say go to the processes tab and close it from there but you don't have that.
Clean up your computer a little bit. Looks like XP.
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Restart your computer regularly also
[QUOTE=alphaspida;23828807]Your computer probably had a really big glitch. I would say go to the processes tab and close it from there but you don't have that.
Clean up your computer a little bit. Looks like XP.
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Restart your computer regularly also[/QUOTE]
Yes I'm on XP. What do you mean by clean out my computer?
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The problem has been solved. I double clicked the top of the window.
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;23828829]Yes I'm on XP. What do you mean by clean out my computer?
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The problem has been solved. I double clicked the top of the window.[/QUOTE]
Unnecessary files, programs, undesired tweaks, and a disk cleanup of the sort.
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