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[OT] Another "niggle" vanquished
No reply is needed to this. It is just a partial followup to the long thread I started, "WinZip 8.0 running v. slowly". In that thread, I mentioned a large number of "niggles" which had developed, over a long period (but especially in the last few months), in my Win98SE installation (dating from January 2007). The one I most urgently needed to deal with was the very slow running of WinZip 8.0, and that seems to have been sorted out (although further tests must be made) by uninstalling it, and replacing it with WinZip 9.0 SR1 (as someone here suggested). Another niggle which had been driving me insane for months was that mouse clicks were either not being registered at all, or else were being registered as *double* clicks. This has been causing much chaos, and great frustration, as you can probably imagine. (For instance, it's why a URL for an *.exe file in an article that somebody posted in that thread led to the program nearly being unintentionally executed: the mouse pointer just goes haphazardly all over the place, and non-existent double clicks get executed, without me being able to control much of what is happening.) An obvious first thing to try was to switch the computer off and swop the mouse for another one (having first checked that it was plugged in properly, of course). Because I hadn't yet done this, I didn't go into details about that "niggle". One reason why I hadn't done this obvious test was that my ancient CRT monitor has been failing, and, to keep it alive, I have to risk ruthlessly destroying the planet by leaving it on standby all the time; also I tend to go to sleep while listening to BBC Radio 7 on the computer, so it is difficult for me ever to switch the computer off. (Absurd, I know.) But the main reason is that when it gradually started to become apparent that I would not be able to continue having Win98SE as my OS, I just lost heart, I stopped even trying to keep my PC in good working condition; and in particular, when there were problems with the antivirus and spyware detector programs, I didn't bother to do anything about them; so, when "niggles" started to develop, I just hopelessly assumed that my machine was badly infected and compromised, and that there was nothing I could do about it. It was all in the mind. I still have to update my antivirus and anti-spyware programs - and do all the other maintenance duties which I have been neglecting for so long - but so far, what I have learned is that my two most maddening "niggles" were not caused by malware at all. Something had gone wrong with the installation of WinZip; and the mouse was broken*. Now that these two things have (apparently) been fixed, my system seems fine. I'm not now anticipating having any more problems than anyone else in keeping my Win98SE installation going in good shape for a while longer. Thanks for bearing with me while I panicked! All suggestions made have been carefully listed, and I will be working through them gradually, as I try to get things in order, step by step. *It was a Microsoft IntelliMouse, and I dimly recall having to install some kind of driver software for it, and there having been some kind of problem, apparently minor at the time, which I ignored - there being many other flaky little things wrong with this installation from the start (more than I'd ever had before). So it may be the driver software, not the mouse itself, which is at fault. I haven't tried to find out which yet. I'm just happy that the Logitech optical mouse (which I think is the one I bought when I built this machine anyway - if so, I don't know why I replaced it) seems to be working perfectly (without even the reflective mat which I thought it would need). -- Angus Rodgers |
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