I guess it ran my computer tech through a maze.

This clue I gave him may have helped:
This may be related or not, I can no longer change my mouse cursor, it says it can't find the program that in needs to do that.
I always figured it's better to give too much information than not enough.
I also told him about a CheckDisk incident and a MalwareBytes update that happened about the same time.
Anyway, it's good to have my recording computer back. Recording is it's primary function although I also do web page maintenance and music research on that one.
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