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[ladysprite]

I had a long, meaningful, complicated and intricate post about the importance of rest and comfort and taking time off to do nothing with friends.

Unfortunately, my computer ate it. All. And 'restore from saved draft' just gets me a blank screen.

I bought a new laptop about two weeks ago, and this has been happening constantly. The touch pad doesn't work when I try to use it, no matter how hard I try, and then five minutes later my sleeve will brush across one corner of it and suddenly I'll have opened three new tabs, enlarged everything on the screen to mega-size, deleted all my passwords, and recopied all my typing to some search engine bar that wasn't there thirty seconds ago. My cursor jumps around like a ballet-dancing ninja on speed. Files open that I didn't touch.

Either this thing hates me, or it's possessed. Or I am possibly too computer-stupid to use it. I want my old, decrepit, slow, ancient, broken, idiot-friendly laptop back....

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The tablet/laptop I had for work until recently had the problem of the pointer bouncing around on the screen, opening and closing windows and generally rendering the computer unusable until it was hibernated or restarted. Wiping XP off it and installing Vista helped, as did mega virus work by the IT office at work, but all it did was make the occurrence of the problem exceedingly rare rather than half the time. Exceedingly rare I could deal with. Oh, and resetting the touchpad and touchscreen settings.

Then, of course, I had to deal with the pain in the butt that is Vista. Which meant I couldn't get onto wireless networks that did not broadcast an SSID (rare, but some friends are paranoid) and a few other minor PITA issues.