I can't open anything on my desktop, can't right click either. Please help
I hope that someone will have a simple solution to my problem. I need you to speak to me like a 10 yr old about this computer!! To start out I found the computer screen locked on my daughters FB page. The mouse works, but the computer won't let you click on anything. I had to manually turn computer off and restarted. My desktop comes up, however I can not open anything! And my Safari Icon is gone, and the firefox icon that I use for work purposes, has changed to a question mark. Please let me know how to procede!!
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Can you select anything on the Desktop? If you do that and invoke the menu option File > Get Info, what's the first thing you see under "Name" in the "Sharing & Permissions" section of the resulting window?
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