Then I noticed that the wifi/cable/internet icon on the lower right display a blue circle in it. Normally, it should be spinning if it was trying to connect to a network, but mine isn't spinning...it kind of just froze there and I cannot click on it to see available networks. However, I am able to get on the internet fine, but don't know why the network icon display a blue ring that doesn't go away or even show some spinning. Yet, when I try to download something from the webs...I don't appear to be able to. I can download a file/program, but then it won't show up when I click on the download manager to install it.
My last issue is that some of my programs that normally show up after I log into my laptop don't show up or activate when I log in now. So don't know if this is caused by my safe-mode boot or something else (hard drive, drivers, etc).
I went into safe-mode a couple times to figure out what went wrong, but couldn't see any differences. I tried to reinstall my Windows Updates 5 or 6 times without any success so far.
