Interesting! and it makes sense! too bad we can't undo the sequence! my grabbing it - it hitting the top! I see your next e-mail - yes, I figure I have to re-install psp - and hopefully that will work, and no other programs will pop up with this same problem! Thanks! cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Carneal To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 7:09 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: problem...Computer - psp This does not tell you how to recover from this, I may have a clue as to what "happened." On an old computer I no longer cared about, I paid a kid some ice cream if he would hurl the mouse against a book, randomly press mouse keys, spin the mouse wheel, etc., in short, ABUSE it. He happily obliged. Result: in roughly 4 1/2 minutes, he had the computer unable to recognize or use the mouse. My guess is there is a certain sequence you can press the buttons to cause the screw up if done quick enough- I guess he pressed the buttons 3-4 times per second. Robert At 06:52 PM 8/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >The other day, my mouse fell onto the top of my computer. I almost = >caught it, so it didn't hit hard, but it still hit. JUST prior to that, = >my firewall and anti-virus icons disappeared from the lower right hand = >corner. When the mouse fell, The computer started making a really loud = >noise - maybe a vibration ? I shut the computer down right away. Opened = >the case and tightened the wires and 'stuff' rebooted, and the sound was = >gone. When I re-booted, it said my registry files had been able to be = >recovered. I didn't know what happened to them - I had shut the computer = >down normally. I ran Panda on line scan - and my norton - and ran my = >spyware progs. Everything checked out fine.=20 >Now, certain programs are acting strange. I had the older version of the = >free mail washer on here, and it would not accept my one e-mail address = >and was throwing hissy fits. I got that working - I removed it and then = >added it again. Today, I tried to open Paint Shop Pro, and it won't = >open, I get one of those microsoft error reports - "paint shop pro 7has = >encounered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the = >inconvenience" - then do I want to send the error report to microsoft.=20 > >does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? or how I can figure = >it out? > >Thanks for any input!!=20 >crisS To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk