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House of Roberts

(6,451 posts) Wed Feb 11, 2026, 01:23 PM Wednesday

I hit an unknown combination of keys and [View all]

everything I had open disappeared. I looked for a recovery and, not knowing what I did, couldn’t find anything to clue me into what to do. I never had this happen before. Any ideas what I did and how to recover it?
I am on my phone so as to not disturb the computer until I might get this stuff back.

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I hit an unknown combination of keys and [View all] House of Roberts Wednesday OP

I don't have any advice, but I sympathize. I just turn my machine off and back on again. Walleye Wednesday #1

You might have hit Alt with F4. If so it's just gone. SheltieLover Wednesday #2

The tabs/windows aren't in the recently closed list. House of Roberts Wednesday #7

Dunno. SheltieLover Wednesday #8

It would help to know what "disappeared"...application or browser or whatever. walkingman Wednesday #3

Lenovo desktop computer, running Chrome and House of Roberts Wednesday #4

You could try this - it might show the files that you had open in explorer? walkingman Wednesday #6

Let me add this: House of Roberts Wednesday #9

If you have multiple profiles in Chrome browser try switching... walkingman Wednesday #10

I hit Ctrl+Shift+ and I get the same menu as House of Roberts Wednesday #11

I normally use firefox for my browser but I opened chrome to see if I could see walkingman Wednesday #12

I finally forced a shutdown House of Roberts Wednesday #13

Good for you - stuff happens. It has happened to everyone, so don't feel like the "Lone Ranger" ☮ walkingman Wednesday #14

I'm not a windows person Tasmanian Devil Wednesday #15

Some user errors canetoad Wednesday #5