It has been about a month... did you take any before and after pictures to see any differences? It's hard to see changes when something is growing fairly slowly and there are lots of leaves to notice. Here is my AV (i took a lot of leaf cuttings from it, so it's regrowing). The first pic was the day I put it under lights, and the second pic is 16 days later... yes, there has been a color change, I guess from the different kind of light. It used to be in a south-west facing window. I use the Schultz AV food you describe everytime I water. I think it ends up being about 3-4 drops in a standard size water bottle. I mix it up and have that bottle on hand anytime I need to water.

Well, we finally pruned back our lilac!! DH used a pole chainsaw we got this year - it was really helpful - on the big older branches mostly on the inside of the clump. Then I made a tool (husbands suggestion) by taping a hook onto the end of a piece of bamboo, and used that to hook the top branches and pull them down so I could trim them - this saved me from having to get up on a ladder. Worked well!! So here are the before and after pics. It's a little hard to tell how much we trimmed because of the trees in our neighbors yard behind it. But a lot did come off! Hoping it likes it next spring and we get some new fresh growth and blooms :) This was taken 6/1/14: This was taken 9/10/15 And here is my fancy tool for pulling the top branches down: I hated having more of the neighbors green shed exposed. I keep trying to get something to grow up along that area so it will hide it (the green plant you see there is some type of weed plant that I find in other places in the yard. I let it go this year, that's why it's so tall), but haven't had any luck. Think I need to amend the soil area (we have sand on top of the old grass there, but I have dug up a couple of spots for plants and added some soil) or maybe I should put planter boxes at the top of the fence instead. Did you trim yours, popmama and maidinmontana? I love that picture of yours, maidinmontana - very pretty! Yours is really tall as well. Marj

Start it up in safe mode... try to get rid of avast. Go to avast and find their uninstall tool.. use it ! What anti-virus did u have before... go to their website & find their uninstaller tool/program. Use it, then you can try again the Avast install, but i think i would stick in a different brand as avast already was conflicting with something... perhaps install the much loved Microsoft.com/security_essentials ... but only after using the uninstall tools from the others. If you cant get in and remove it safe mode... from that same f8 start up menu, choose Last known good configuration to go back one restore point.

it helps when we know what windows you are using and what browser. a couple of things to try, sometimes you can accidently hit the F11 key at the top of your keyboard that can make the page go to full size and may make things disappear hitting F11 again will return it to normal. you may not have had your taskbar locked down, this is for xp, right click down where the taskbar should be and see if you get a menu. If it got toggled to disappear like DA mentioned once you get it back you want to right click and lock the taskbar in place you can also go into properties and set it not to disappear(auto-hide). And also to check to keep the taskbar on top of other windows.