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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 ... "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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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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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 |
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"heirloom" wrote in message ... 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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