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26/02/2005
News Alerts & Spam Filters
Just as I thought, the spam filter is blocking my Google news alerts. I wonder if the service desk staff will ever talk to me again!! That's a job for Monday.
In the meantime, at home my computer has been playing up, the most interesting effects! I lose control of the mouse, it screams all over the desktop by itself initially, applications open by themselves, floating menus open and close, task bar shifts all over the desktop and resizes. It stops if I let go of the mouse but if I touch the mouse again all these things happen again, and the faster I move the mouse the faster these things go. It isn't safe to click on anything because I might find that the focus has changed to something else and I change some setting! Every now and again it stops and I regain control and if it doesn't start up again I can close everything, put everything back in order and close down the computer. I have to close down the computer when this starts because this thing will keep starting and stopping for the rest of the session.
I've done the anti-virus stuff, the ad-ware procedures, all the computer housework things I could think of. Today I'd had enough, I fdisked the computer, reloaded everything, and the bugger started up again!! I think I've solved it now though - I changed the mouse ... I hadn't considered it before because I just couldn't work out what would go wrong with a mouse! So far so good, it is behaving beautifully now. I hope it doesn't start up again.
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