Screwed it up good ! Assistance please !

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    mart Strong Ash

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    OK..I tried to download a manual for a pasta machine !. That was a big mistake. Somehow it loaded google chrome toolbars but what I was reading didn't say a word about it. I hate google chrome and was just using the regular google homepage without the toolbars. So I uninstalled google chrome. Now I can`t do anything ! Even internet explorer says page cannot be displayed,, keeps telling me I am offline ! So came in to the bedroom to use this computer and I am obviously not offline .
    Any ideas what happened and how to fix it ? The light is not great in here and I need my computer.
    Using Bing now and this site says I am using an outdated browser.
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Go to Internet Explorer and click on File (I believe, it may be one of the other options across the top) and it will say "Work Offline". Uncheck that and you should be able to go online again.
     
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    Nope,, that was not checked. I wondered about restoring the default but at this time I am almost leary of doing anything. I am on the same computer now but if I try to search from the IE homepage using Bing it tells me something is wrong or I am offline !! I can`t even find the program I downloaded to remove it ! It was just supposed to be for changing document files to PDF and vice verse !! I thought I needed that to read the manual I wanted since I couldn`t read it otherwise,,it wouldn`t show it ! Even right now as I type to my right it says the webpage can not be shown. Or something similar !
     
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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Go into control panel > system and security> action center >restore to an earlier time
    Follow the prompts and roll back to before you downloaded the manual.
     



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    Tried that and it didn`t work. I just switched over to firefox. Still working out kinks there but at least its usable. Bad thing is I still did not get the instruction manual I needed. Anyone here have a Wally`s Instant Pasta Maker ??
     
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    Wow...what troubles... so when you download something see, before you click, something like custom or see the gifts that they give you, before you click on OK...... You can click or un click all the gifts and not get them. Also pay attention to the date and go to your "add or remove programs" and look for the date you downloaded it and you can see what they gave you as a gift. There you can uninstall the gift...
     
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    This happened to me before. If you are using Windows 8 or 8.1 or 10 you will have to do a refresh or reset, doing so you might loose some data so make sure to back up important files to another disc or pen drive before proceeding. If that doesn't work reinstall the OS.
    I'm using Windows 10 and did a refresh but was not happy with it and did a reset. Now it is working great again :)



    This is just an example of how to do it. Good luck!
     
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    This one did not have a thing !! The only thing it was supposed to do is switch from Document to PDF file and back. Now since I did not know what format the instruction book was,,one would assume it was needed to view it !! Still did not get the instruction manual. I checked all my programs and nothing was on that date.
    I switched to Firefox and although I can use it,,its slow as my old dial up was. And that is just going from one forum site to another. Darn,, this is a pain in the posterior.
     
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    This is old Windows Vista,, may have to check and see if it has something similar.

    Thanks folks !
     

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