I apologise if this is in the wrong section but I am new to this and don’t know where to best request help.
I was trying to scan something and after I had worked that out it wouldn’t go off the screen, a box popped up asking did I want to get rid of ‘window lists’. Thinking it would get rid of the box with the scan which I couldn’t move, save or find (I really am very new to this and not sure what I’m doing) it didn’t but now all my tabs disappear.
My question is how do I restore the ‘window lists’ I don’t know what they are but I’m assuming that is what is causing the problem and I don’t know where to look for the ‘window lists’ to restore it.
My thanks for any help. I really am not in the least technical so if this all seems a bit basic please bear that in mind.
@username31,
Thanks for reaching out. To be honest I’m not super clear on the behavior here, nor the error you saw. Knowing the answers to the questions @289wk asked would also be very helpful.
As for restoring your tabs/windows, if you look in your history (Menu --> History) you should see options to restore closed tabs/windows here:
Thank you so much to all who responded and my apologies for not replying sooner but I have been away from the internet and don’t use mobile internet so have just seen these.
My apologies for not being able to express the issue very well, I am not technical and do struggle to describe things in terms cleverer people will understand.
I had spent literally days searching for a solution before posting then whilst I was waiting for my post to be approved I came across the answer when looking for something else.
Part of the problem I have is knowing how to phrase my question but by chance I came across something that said, ‘window disappears when minimized’. That is what happened to me but I inadvertently ticked a box that said ‘window list’ and not knowing what it was or how important it was had been searching for that. I still don’t know if I have it back but everything is running again and this is what I found.
At first all I came across was complex looking fixes I would be too afraid to try as it meant venturing into parts of the machine I am unfamiliar with. At the bottom of one of these sets of instructions someone had put this…
Right click on an empty space, click troubleshoot, then restore settings to default.
When I did this I even got a little icon at the bottom which I hadn’t had before.
If it helps anyone else who comes across it, it also said pressing Alt+Tab would do the same thing but I haven’t tried that.