-=PCTechTalk=- Re: friend's new laptop - acting weird
- From: "BashfulBob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:35:49 -0600
Hi Chris
First you didn't say if she was using a mouse or the touch pad to maneuver
around.
If she was using the touch pad to maneuver around, the touch pad can be very
sensitive and without realizing it, you can be pressing down on it thereby
activating what ever the arrow is over or comes across. I know I had this
problem on my Sony Vaio laptop (first one) and took me a while to figure it
out. I got a USB wireless wheel mouse and it stopped. I suggest you consider
advising her to get a wireless mouse. Love mine EXCEPT that I have an
optical one and it could go through batteries pretty quickly. Mine uses two
AA, there are wireless mouse's that use AAA, but don't do all that mine
does. I use OLD (15 years old) rechargeables (can't get these kind any more,
they are NOT the NiCad type) and they have saved me a bundle in battery
costs. I like the wireless one cause I don't want more wires all over the
work area. Another thought here, I have three USB ports on my laptop, so you
want to take into account how many USB ports her dell has, a lot of laptops
come with only two USB ports. Remember, one will always be in use for the
mouse. Then again, she could get a multiple USB port add on device that
plugs into the other USB port and that will give her plenty of extra USB
ports. Depends on how many she will need now or in the future.
If hubby does not work with a laptop, I suggest you have him piddle with it
and sooner or later he will press to hard on the touch pad and something
will pop up on him, providing that is what is happening. Personally, I think
it is the resident leprechaun in the laptop that is causing the problem. :-)
As far as popups that say to update is concerned, new puters (laptops too)
come with bundle programs that may be a tad bit old and they may be set up
to prompt to be updated when the equipment is first used.
Those are my guesses, hope it helps some.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- friend's new laptop - acting weird
> My friend has a beautiful new Dell laptop.
> It is driving her nuts - as it did me when I was just up
> there explaining
> how to burn a cd to her.
>
> In the middle of working on something - say like today when
> we had windows explorer open, something else will pop up -
> like - her outlook express address book just opened itself
> and popped up on the screen. Another time, a wizard for an
> office type program just opened itself. It didn't happen
> while I was there, but she said sometimes programs just
> close by themselves too.
> It also seems that sometimes, hovering over something will
> make it react - like an 'ok' button.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? anything I can do for
> her or tell her husband to do?
> I worked on it for about 20 minutes and was about ready to
> toss it out the window!
> She also gets some sort of a java prompt that pops up that I
> didn't see. She said it is something about updating it.
>
> They are really particular about what is on their computer's
> etc. I doubt very much that I could talk them into putting
> anti-spyware on it. And - her husband doesn't believe that
> it is doing this.... she wants me to tell him that it did it
> for me too. <grin>
>
> This is my first experience with a laptop - and I wasn't
> impressed .... it is very difficult to maneuver around her
> desktop and files because of this.
> could it be a setting? is there a hover setting?
> HELP !! LOL
> thanks!
> cris
>
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