PC nitwit seeks advice ....

[carla]

The address bar has completely disappeared from my screen - and the bit at the bottom with the start button comes and goes too.

Think this should work.............

For the address bar assuming you are using internet explorer:

click view, toolbars, address bar (it should then reappear)

For the bit at the bottom with the start button:

move your mouse to the bottom of the screen so that it appears.
Right click with mouse, properties & then make sure that "autohide the task bar" is NOT ticked and ok

HTH

Thanks so much PreggieMum, but even the View bit has gone awol.

If you are in Internet Explorer you may have accidentally selected View/Full Screen. So you still have the Icons (piccies) at the top but no menu ( File, Edit, View etc)

There are two ways of getting out of this. You can either press the F11 button, or if you look in the top right hand corner you should see 3 little icons. THe one on the far right is X. the one to the left of this, that looks like two overlapping windows, is the one you want.

BR

alt V will also bring up the view menu

oh yes that's another one. Forgot that. Get the View menu up and untick the Full Screen option.

BR

Mumsnet never ceases to amaze me. Thank you all so, so much. Worked a treat!