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Old April 9th 05, 02:16 AM
heirloom
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Does this mean that all is well, Ken?? You've been a real trooper at
running all this down......good for you!!
Heirloom, old and patients are not a virtue

"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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"Rick T" wrote in message
...
heirloom wrote:
Hey Rick,
I believe he had mentioned shutting down everything but Explorer

and
Systray and still had the issue. The last clue Ken gave may be the
key......if he puts the pointer on an icon or in the Taskbar, it

doesn't
fail......I am suspecting maybe the wallpaper??? (remote, I admit,

but,
worth a shot)


or maybe disable ActiveDesktop (?)

Rick


I think you've hit on it, Rick. And thanks to you also, Heirloom.

Ken Bland




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Old April 9th 05, 08:37 AM
Mart
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Regarding the ZA, Mart, couldn't he just uncheck it in MSCONFIG and
reboot? That would be easier that the un/reinstall.


Probably so, HL - it's just a personal thing, but I like to eliminate by
elimination. It just removes the doubt and ZA was becoming personal with me
g. As I said elsewhere, I've removed it from my XP box because of the
problems it caused me. YMMV

Heirloom, old and going to make the world a little safer
this weekend


Painting the upstairs completed? - Only ground level work left then? - Don't
tell us, but my guess is that you must have put the ladders away!

Mart


"heirloom" wrote in message
...
......and as far as your wife's solitaire game, take a peek at anything
you
have set to "auto update" or "phone home" in any way, i.e. Seti at Home.
Also, any item that you have set to run automatically or at a certain time
of day/night.
Regarding the ZA, Mart, couldn't he just uncheck it in MSCONFIG and
reboot? That would be easier that the un/reinstall.
Heirloom, old and going to make the world a little safer
this weekend

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Mmm...
I've found which part of Zone Alarm fouls up solitaire.


Ken, just for fun g try uninstalling ZA and see if that clears up
any/some/all of your anomalies. When you've done, you can soon re-install
it!!
(Save your download - that way you don't need to go on-line again until
you've re-installed it, if you are worried about your firewall)

Mart


"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...

"heirloom" wrote in message
...
Ken,
Are you using some form of wallpaper?? If so, just for grins,
disable
that and run some tests.
Heirloom, old and working on a hunch (back)


Indeed I am, Heirloom, a photograph of my first great-grandson. But
let
me
add something I recently found out:

Iconoid recommended -- and wouldn't work properly until -- I set the
desktop specifics to NOT Show Web Content and NOT use Auto Arrange. I
discovered that if Show Web Content was enabled the hourglass appeared
alongside the mouse pointer arrow. In addition, I replaced a mouse
that
was
stuttering with the left button and the new one came with a new driver
which
included things the old one hadn't. I stripped down the "additives,"

and
disabled an entry or two from the startup list.

I've gotten rid of the "Working In Background" hourglass but something
else -- maybe a ZoneAlarm update -- played heck with the solitaire game
that
my wife likes to relax with.

I'm taking the mouse back tomorrow to exchange it for a different model
and
I've found which part of Zone Alarm fouls up solitaire.

I'm getting closer to restoring the computer to its usual proper

operation
but I may a little farther yet to go.

Thanks for all your comments.

Kan Bland








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Old April 10th 05, 02:53 AM
heirloom
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Nope, painting still remains..........teaching motorcycle safety this
weekend.
Heirloom, old and think my ice cream has bones


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Regarding the ZA, Mart, couldn't he just uncheck it in MSCONFIG and
reboot? That would be easier that the un/reinstall.


Probably so, HL - it's just a personal thing, but I like to eliminate by
elimination. It just removes the doubt and ZA was becoming personal with

me
g. As I said elsewhere, I've removed it from my XP box because of the
problems it caused me. YMMV

Heirloom, old and going to make the world a little safer
this weekend


Painting the upstairs completed? - Only ground level work left then? -

Don't
tell us, but my guess is that you must have put the ladders away!

Mart


"heirloom" wrote in message
...
......and as far as your wife's solitaire game, take a peek at anything
you
have set to "auto update" or "phone home" in any way, i.e. Seti at Home.
Also, any item that you have set to run automatically or at a certain

time
of day/night.
Regarding the ZA, Mart, couldn't he just uncheck it in MSCONFIG and
reboot? That would be easier that the un/reinstall.
Heirloom, old and going to make the world a little safer
this weekend

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Mmm...
I've found which part of Zone Alarm fouls up solitaire.

Ken, just for fun g try uninstalling ZA and see if that clears up
any/some/all of your anomalies. When you've done, you can soon

re-install
it!!
(Save your download - that way you don't need to go on-line again until
you've re-installed it, if you are worried about your firewall)

Mart


"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...

"heirloom" wrote in message
...
Ken,
Are you using some form of wallpaper?? If so, just for grins,
disable
that and run some tests.
Heirloom, old and working on a hunch (back)


Indeed I am, Heirloom, a photograph of my first great-grandson. But
let
me
add something I recently found out:

Iconoid recommended -- and wouldn't work properly until -- I set the
desktop specifics to NOT Show Web Content and NOT use Auto Arrange.

I
discovered that if Show Web Content was enabled the hourglass

appeared
alongside the mouse pointer arrow. In addition, I replaced a mouse
that
was
stuttering with the left button and the new one came with a new

driver
which
included things the old one hadn't. I stripped down the "additives,"

and
disabled an entry or two from the startup list.

I've gotten rid of the "Working In Background" hourglass but

something
else -- maybe a ZoneAlarm update -- played heck with the solitaire

game
that
my wife likes to relax with.

I'm taking the mouse back tomorrow to exchange it for a different

model
and
I've found which part of Zone Alarm fouls up solitaire.

I'm getting closer to restoring the computer to its usual proper

operation
but I may a little farther yet to go.

Thanks for all your comments.

Kan Bland










  #24  
Old April 11th 05, 10:02 PM
Justin Thyme
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"heirloom" wrote in message
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Does this mean that all is well, Ken?? You've been a real trooper at
running all this down......good for you!!
Heirloom, old and patients are not a virtue

I've spoken (as it were) too hastily before and am reluctant to make
additional comments until I feel more confident about them.

In short, the original, 3-1/2 year old mouse got flaky with its left button,
sometimes double- and triple-clicking when I only wanted one time. Replaced
with a $15 variety by the same manufacturer (Logitech), also unsatisfactory
in that the driver CD took things away that should have remained and
otherwise messed up. (Afterward, I discovered that the mouse itself was an
old model -- from Wal-Mart -- probably incompatible with the CD driver.)
Returned mouse and bought another (this time from an entirely different
company) at Office Max. Instructions were terrible and incomplete, and
resultant driver eliminated the triple-line scroll wheel function and
blocked it from TweakUI. Uninstalled, reinstalled about three times and
never had the success with the scroll wheel that I had with the original.
Turned that back this morning, bought a new Logitech much like my very first
one (but no CD supplied; had to download the driver from Logitech) and for
the past three hours everything's cool.

As for the "working in background" hourglass, it's sometimes there,
sometimes not. I have learned that I can make it go away by
activating/deactivating "Show Web Content," and frankly I do not know how or
how not or when to make use of this feature.

I have read as much as I could find about "Show Web Content" but it's still
unclear.

Nevertheless, I have made progress with the mouse, and that's a plus right
now.

Ken Bland


 




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