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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 21, 2019 12:19:48 GMT
Looks like it's the mouse
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2020 12:35:30 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2020 12:36:33 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2020 12:37:11 GMT
Having a little trouble with my win10 desktop machine. All's fine until I go into a window, or click into a text box, with scroll bars either down the side or along the button. When I do that the window, or text box, starts jumping around all over the place. I did think it might be the mouse, but everything else is working fine, and even if the clickwheel on it was bust I'm not sure it would account for the left/right movement. Any ideas? Oddly the mouse stopped playing up for a few weeks but yesterday went wrong in a different way, now it's shrinking the font size! Obviously a loose connection somewhere so a new USB mouse on the way from eBay and, just in case, another PS2 USB adaptor Just In Case the fault is there - one's old PS2 plug Goldtouch KB is still good. And because the secret of comedy is timing the laptop's KB has failed as well - mainly due to me tipping tea in it. Got a replacement sitting here waiting to be installed. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2020 21:01:07 GMT
Laptop is Win10'd.
Would have a working KB but the new KB had a dead column of keys!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 9, 2020 21:29:29 GMT
Interesting. I never did get round to updating my laptop. I rarely use it, but it is win7, so this might be worth a go.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 18, 2020 17:12:39 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 18, 2020 17:13:05 GMT
BURNS: DO NOT REPLY
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 18, 2020 17:29:32 GMT
Run a Level 2 Diagnostic!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 18, 2020 17:48:05 GMT
I disabled all Windows 10 updates a couple of years ago when they kept messing things up, and my laptop has worked perfectly ever since.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2020 12:28:33 GMT
KB4537762 is for Win10 1803, which was superseded by 1909 in November and really should be on the machine by now.
So I manually set the 1909 upgrade off, thinking that will cure all.
It didn't. 1909 hung on startup, wouldn't produce icons on desktop, taskbar or a startmenu
Rolled it back to 1803, which thankfully worked. Recommended they back all their data up an seek professional assistance, preferably a reinstall from scratch.
Has taken time and brain power when I had neither.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 21, 2020 13:01:40 GMT
Quickly! Insert the Isolinear chips!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2020 14:49:51 GMT
<screams>
and now the SSD I used to create my win10 recovery disc won't reformat to it's full size!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 21, 2020 15:38:33 GMT
We're gonna need to eject the core!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2020 13:13:49 GMT
The wife's Laptop dropped it's internet connection in the runup to lunch. Not an uncommon thing, my laptop got kicked out at the same time. So we reset our BTHomeHub...... and Liz's Laptop wouldn't reconnect, but mine and Jonathan's did.
So I rebooted her laptop. It still wouldn't reconnect.
I tried it with my O2 mobile modem - it's first outing since late March - and it connected first time.
I got Liz's laptop to forget the Hub's wireless network, rebooted her laptop again, went to connect to the Hub's wireless network, gave it the Wireless key and it won't reconnect.
I've proved it's not the Home Hub's Wireless network as other machines in the house (room!) have connected to it. I've proved it's not the machine's wireless adaptor as it's connected to another network.
PC is Win 10, Hub is a Home Hub 3 if it makes any difference.
Any ideas? Solutions involving either of the words Apple or Mac not acceptable, useful or welcome!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2020 13:36:09 GMT
I had this issue with my old laptop and it wouldn't reconnect unless I plugged in a magic £10 USB thing the computer shop gave me and now it connects every time.
Or you could run a Level II Diagnostic.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 2, 2020 13:58:46 GMT
He means a USB wifi dongle.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2020 16:10:11 GMT
MAGIC THING.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2020 21:16:34 GMT
New Windows 10 Feature update doing the rounds which changes the look of the start menu, much greyer and more like older versions.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2020 21:20:34 GMT
FINALLY persuaded my wife's 32gb sdd netbook to update at the weekend after an 18 month gap!
Update hadn't been cleaning up behind itself and there was 10gb of trash in C:\windows\software distribution\downloads
It's a MUCH happier computer with that purged and update running again.
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 25, 2020 22:26:38 GMT
Run a Level 2 Diagnostic! -Ralph Oh my God that was funny. I've injured myself. Ohboy. Also, what I really came into this dark mystical computery thread to say- HOW BLOODY EXPENSIVE IS WINDOWS 10?!?!?! BASTARDS!!!!!! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2020 22:50:52 GMT
Free if you have win7 or win8. Install them and then upgrade online, tool is linked upthread
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2020 22:52:58 GMT
Run a Level 2 Diagnostic! -Ralph Oh my God that was funny. I've injured myself. Ohboy. It's what Burns says EVERYTIME someone else has a computer problem. It isn't funny the 47th time. Would you like to guess who the tech guy was in his previous place of employment in The Burger? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 25, 2020 23:05:48 GMT
Oh my God that was funny. I've injured myself. Ohboy. It's what Burns says EVERYTIME someone else has a computer problem. It isn't funny the 47th time. Would you like to guess who the tech guy was in his previous place of employment in The Burger? Lieutenant Barcley? |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 25, 2020 23:16:55 GMT
Free if you have win7 or win8. Install them and then upgrade online, tool is linked upthread How recently have you had that working Phil? After this discussion I tried to use it to get my win 7 laptop to update and it wouldn't. It downloaded the install for 10 but then hangs when you run it because it tries to look for updates and doesn't get anywhere. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2020 23:24:27 GMT
A friend used it 2 weeks back I believe.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2020 14:09:03 GMT
Oh my God that was funny. I've injured myself. Ohboy. It's what Burns says EVERYTIME someone else has a computer problem. It isn't funny the 47th time. Would you like to guess who the tech guy was in his previous place of employment in The Burger? Phil makes a clever Star Trek gag! 47 indeed! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 26, 2020 18:53:22 GMT
Phil was not aware it was an important Trek number!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2020 19:03:17 GMT
Oh it is a huge Trek rabbit hole which continues in Trek canon productions and tie-in media to this day. Here is a brief introduction: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/47-Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 26, 2020 20:41:36 GMT
Yes, I read that this afternoon ....
I had no idea and plucked the number out of my head, coincidence I assure you!
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