internet explorer disappeared
I was trying to clean up some things on my computer, and suddenly Internet Explorer is gone, and I can't seem to find a way to bring it back... I'm gonna keep trying because I can't just use...
View ArticleHey I just bought a new mouse.
No problems to report thus far, just thought I'd mention it. It's a mini mouse. I'd have preferred a bigger one I suppose, but... I didn't see any. Or if I did, they were of a different brand and I...
View Articlethe wrong g**d***ed buttons
Why is it programs I use have to put buttons I use constantly right next to buttons I never use, that do annoying things? Like on Irfanview, right next to the "save" button is a "slideshow" button. It...
View Articlegah
So, on neopets, there's this picture to click on, an imagemap, so depending on where you click, you can get different random results. Trying to collect berries to feed your pet. I do this every day....
View Articlescreensavers
Lately screensavers... have been slow on my computer. Images don't move the way they should, if they move at all. And it can take some time to get an active screensaver to go away. It seems like a RAM...
View Articlehijacked links
It seems that lately, when I click on a link to a site I've found in a Google search (and I imagine this would happen with other search engines and maybe even if I enter the URL directly in the...
View Articlelist of running processes
looked at a list of running processes with cntrl-alt-delete. There are very few that I know what they are. The rest... there are surely some that are necessary even if I have no idea what they are, as...
View ArticlePuzzling keyboard problem
This has happened to me several times recently, the first I recall was a month or so ago and again a couple of weeks ago. I had a viral/trojan horse invasion last week, but I'm pretty sure that was...
View ArticleSystem Security
This is the most annoying thing ever. It keeps trying to sell me bogus virus protection, popping an ad up repeatedly, and there's tons of applications that it won't allow to run, including any...
View Articleblocking applications
How come is it that when my firewall pops up a message about something trying to install it, and I check the "do not show this message again" box before clicking "block," it still keeps popping up the...
View ArticleNot a problem, just something odd
I dunno if I've mentioned this before. But with the program I use to play DVDs and make screencaptures from stuff I've recorded on DVD-RW, there'll be some black space around the edges of the image......
View ArticleSelf running video in posts
I would encourage Padre to prevent posters from including videos that run automatically in their posts. If a poster wishes to include video, it should load in a frozen condition with the typical...
View Articleaddress bar
For many years, I could type URLs into the address bar omitting the prefix "www," but lately it seems that often when I do that, I get directed to ask.com or things like that instead of the site I'm...
View Articlemicrosoft word
So, in recent years it seems bloody impossible to use Word. Seems to me in the old days, if your computer had Word, you could just use it. But now you need to set it up somehow, enter product codes...
View ArticleNews of the wierd
Thought I'd pass along the neatest thing I heard today. Apparently some Greyhound busses are now offering wi-fi internet on board. A friend of mine said he was actually able to "pirate" an internet...
View ArticleMy computer's clock
I think it was yesterday that I noticed my computer's clock was wrong, so I reset it. This morning it had the right time, but the wrong date, so I reset that. Now, about half an hour later, the time...
View Articlesystem configuration utility
Recently I installed a new program that I don't want starting up every time I start the computer. This has often happened in the past, so I run msconfig, and uncheck the box for the program in the...
View Articlevisual wonkiness
Some things... in the past couple days look smaller. Text, or whatever. Not everywhere, but certain areas... Um, if I go to "view- text size," it's still set to medium, just like always. And when I...
View ArticleRight mouse button
Lately I find that my right mouse button... I often have to click it several times before it does anything. Which is really annoying. And just now... I had used it to copy some text, but then I...
View ArticleHomepage
I use the Firefox browser almost exclusively, other that Hotmail, for which I get on IE. My homepage should be the T-Gate forums, but for some reason it keeps defaulting to google each time I close...
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