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ladyspriteI 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....
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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Date: 2009-11-04 02:15 pm (UTC)I'm beginning to wonder if the cursor jump thing is some kind of well-hidden virus/worm that's going around or a broken patch MS put out. I've had 3 desktops start doing that in the last 5 months and I've replaced the Human Interface Devices (tried multiple varieties, including a drawing tablet) on all of them to no effect.
voting in favor of disabling all non-essential mouse-pad functions. personally recommend the thumb trackballs that fit around your finger, but I have a penchant for track balls *g*
Would also recommend dumping Vista (if you got stuck with it) and upgrading back to XP, but that's largely personal bias, so take with copious amounts of salt. ;)
good luck!