Jim's going mad...
Tearing me hair!
I have a laptop owned by a non-computerate elderly friend which (this may or not be relevant) has recently loaded Windows 11.
Everything worked normally up to that point. But now...
Click on an application - say, Thunderbird or Microsoft Office Word. Loads ok. Still ok until you sleep or hibernate. Then, on restart...
Click on an application. Loads. And loads and loads etc multiple times. Upwards of six copies of the same doc or mail client.
In other words, machine now unusable. Friend reduced to tears.
Have tried scanning with Malwarebytes - lots of irrelevant-looking stuff quarantined; then reinstalled M$ Office and Thunderbird, and eventually downloaded a new copy of Win 11 and telling the thing to repair. No change.
New one on me; never heard of this happening before. I've already wasted a day on this, and am completely stumped. Any thoughts?
My friend wants to ditch the m/c and buy another, but it's only 10 months old, but I don't want to be defeated.