Help please - lost desktop!

MrsSiClist

Hello. Our other laptop is a Lenovo machine running Windows 10, and The Curse of Lenovo seems to have hit it. I have no idea what I did, but I obviously accidentally clicked on something on the desktop, and it's gone. In its place I have a dimmed desktop background picture, and three large (3cm square) icons in the middle: "OneKey Recovery", "Account" which has a Lenovo padlock symbol on it, and "OneNote".

All my buttons along the bottom have gone, and so too have my shortcuts. "On/off", settings and file explorer are still there on the left, together with a little round desktop picture, which when I hover over it shows the account username. Top left I now have three new icons: from the top, a hamburger which says "expand" when hovered over, one which says "pinned tiles" and one which says "all apps".

How do I recover my desktop please?

AndyPix

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Hmm, never seen that before - CTRL+ALT+DEL , choose task manager, end the task ?

MrsSiClist

Thanks AndyPix, but when I did that, it says "There are no running apps" ...

ETA - just noticed that I also now have a little "touch keyboard" icon at bottom right alongside the time and date. That wasn't there before!

wongataa

Have you put in tablet mode accidentally? Google to see how to switch to see if you have.

MrsSiClist

wongataa wrote: »

Have you put in tablet mode accidentally? Google to see how to switch to see if you have.

My hero! Thank you very much indeed wongataa - you've solved it