Option 1: Use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + P or Ctrl + Alt + Del.
A few lines flashed on the monitor, before I was staring once again at my frustrated 4 PM over-caffeinated face in the black screen in front of me.
My computer crashed yesterday.
...just flat-out went black.
And wouldn’t come back on despite my holding down (for various lengths of time and intensity—I was sweating to finish this slide deck before a HUGE call with a potential client) the power button.
To Google, I went. "Computer crashed what to do”
There were three options...
Option 2: Throw your computer out the window.
I can't deny it, I’d love to do this. Though...
1. DON'T want to pay to replace it
2. I just cleaned my apartment
3. DON'T think my downstairs neighbor, George, would appreciate it as his kid’s probably napping.
Option 3: Reach out to your company’s support team.
Turns out, I am in fact not stranded alone on a deserted island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
On the support app, I found our self-help knowledge base (after of course checking my LinkedIn, again). Since I’d already done everything it’d suggested, I messaged support.
In less time than it took for me to reheat my leftover morning coffee, Emma from Support chatted back. She used some phrases and words that didn’t quite make sense to me, did a few magic spells, and then told me to press this, then hold that.
And then... LIFE – my computer sign-on finally reappeared.
