digitS'
Garden Master
Just thinking out loud about computer problems:
This is the longest I've gone without buying a new desktop. I don't think I've gotten any more than 4 years with the other ones and this computer is well over that age now.
It has been fairly trouble free. It needed some of that "remote" tinkering from McAfee to on some kind of security issue about 4 months ago and I couldn't get a "windows update" for the longest time until I actually searched out what it was the computer needed to be updated on! Turned out to be the word processing and when I requested that download - it loaded and stopped tormenting me with failure notices!
Now, I have a dodgy cursor. Or, it is a dodgy mouse. Or, there's something wrong a little deeper than that. Highlighting something often just creates chaos. And, I've gotta be very, very precise about clicking on a rightclick popup box or I open a bookmark behind what I was after . . . and, I just now italicized the word "behind" and it did that and then created a 2nd - gettin' to be real common.
I'd like to say it is the mouse. This one is a replacement - the 1st was corded.
Think I'm going to cross my digitS', buy a new mouse and hope that does it but, how might the highlighting issues figure in here? Oh yeah, the tiny light on the mouse is out - I thought that indicated a low battery but replacing it, made no difference.
Steve
This is the longest I've gone without buying a new desktop. I don't think I've gotten any more than 4 years with the other ones and this computer is well over that age now.
It has been fairly trouble free. It needed some of that "remote" tinkering from McAfee to on some kind of security issue about 4 months ago and I couldn't get a "windows update" for the longest time until I actually searched out what it was the computer needed to be updated on! Turned out to be the word processing and when I requested that download - it loaded and stopped tormenting me with failure notices!
Now, I have a dodgy cursor. Or, it is a dodgy mouse. Or, there's something wrong a little deeper than that. Highlighting something often just creates chaos. And, I've gotta be very, very precise about clicking on a rightclick popup box or I open a bookmark behind what I was after . . . and, I just now italicized the word "behind" and it did that and then created a 2nd - gettin' to be real common.
I'd like to say it is the mouse. This one is a replacement - the 1st was corded.
Think I'm going to cross my digitS', buy a new mouse and hope that does it but, how might the highlighting issues figure in here? Oh yeah, the tiny light on the mouse is out - I thought that indicated a low battery but replacing it, made no difference.
Steve