Dalchina & Pepanee, tons of thanks for all the good tips. My ctfmonexe. IS running. I tried several methods of trying to disable it, but it must go to default when I make these changes and reverts...

Kudos Dalchina. However when I tap Winkey + S, nothing happens!?

Eternal--Thanx again. I reinstalled the 'search' box, but when I type anything in it--nothing happens. Am I back to square one?
PS, that's the 'Type here to search' box. It appears, but nothing...

When I tap the Win/Logo key it opens up a black box with different apps and options for my PC. At the bottom of the box there was like a 'start' box or column where you could type in a question or a...

I found my lost calculator. It was in the Microsoft Store. I simply reloaded it from there.

I'm just a run-of-the-mill old fart who does not know anything about my PC and how it works. Hopefully I'll learn a little bit on this forum to keep me out of trouble. Thanx!

I have a 'calculator' key on my Logitech keyboard. When I tapped that key it always brought up a calculator on my screen. I recently did a "restore" on my PC. In doing so, I lost that calculator...