OT Am I in trouble?

I don't use OE, but I would check the refresh rate. Especially if you had guests on your machine over the holidays, or have had a recent update.

NightMist

Some default somwhere is set to go automatically to the top of the page at a given interval? Just a thought... May be hard to cure. These settings can be obscure.

I believe that it is the cursor. Mine does this all the time, and has for about two years. I have yet to find out what it is and I have asked my tech guy at school and he has no idea either and he's a genius with computers. And that is a comment from the IT department in the main building and I agree with them. It just did it. But it is a bit interesting and different that you go back up to the top of the posts.

I'll be doing something and all of a sudden my cursor is on the other side of the screen or wherever it wants to go. More annoying than anything. I would love to know how to solve it as well.

I'll have to go google again and see if I can find anything this time. I'll let you know if I have any luck.

Steven Alaska

Hey Polly! My resident Geek says it could be a sticky key or mouse. Soooo, turn your keyboard over and tap it sharply on the desk a few times. Be sure to have a bucket handy for when you see what comes out. See if that helps at all. It might just dislodge a crumb; yes we'll be charitable and call it a crumb.

Is your mouse an optical mouse? They tend not to be sticky and are the more common vermin out there.

Otherwise he will happily trek out to see you and the critters (all expenses paid in advance of course) and fix it for you at no extra charge. Merry whatever,

Fay (Halfway down a bottle of red after a very ling day at the Block building the House.)

Sometimes when a computer battery is slowly dying, this can happen with the curser.

I had it happen and I had to replace the backup battery in my computer and it fixed the problem. Your IT techno should be able to confirm this and replace the battery for you as it is not like replacing a torch battery.

Try the simple cures, first, like turning the keyboard over and banging the crumbs out of it, and then vacuuming. Or a different keyboard or mouse.

Computers have a battery ?

Dee in Oz

"DiMa" wrote

Yes, because I couldn't describe it correctly, I found the following on Google.

Also known as a button cell or watch battery, a coin cell battery is a battery contained on the computers motherboard that allows it to retain important system settings and remember what the time and date is while the computer is off.

This is one of the things I learned when my mouse curser went haywire and I laughed at the geek who told me about batteries (he is in fact my BIL). Only twice in all the years I have had a computer have I needed to replace the battery.

Di

Check Microsoft for software updates, also updates for your virus and browser software :)

-Irene

I favour the dirty-keyboard theory. If there's some key that will pop you back to the top of the post, then it can be actuated if it gets short circuited when the switch is clogged by an accumulation of cat fur, cigarette ash, mucus, ketchup, dandruff and hamburger grease.

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Howdy!

Common after-Christmas malady: **

** Reindeer tap-dancing on your rooftop (they get bored before they go back to the North Pole)

Are you in trouble? well, you ARE Polly...

Any thoughts? I think it's nice to not have the wind blowing 20-50 mph gust today, altho' it blew most of the leaves up around the fence, making them easier to capture. I think we had a wonderful, fun, peaceful Christmas. ;-)

Happy New Year!

R/Sandy -

I haven't read the rest of the posts and someone else may suggest this, but change your mouse battery. My cursor will jerk to the bottom rather than the top. I changed my battery and it quit doing it.

What was really exciting is that I was working in Excel and the cursor would just start moving from cell to cell eating everything in it's path. It was like Pac Man.

Haven't had it happen since I did the battery change.

Cindy

Santa Claus put a terrible run on the battery supply here but I'll put that at the top of my shopping list, Cindy. I 'do' know how to change the battery - it's just simple AA's. I wish we could have seen your cursor pretending to be PacMan. What a picture. Polly

"teleflora" I haven't read the rest of the posts and someone else may suggest this, but

_I_ was the picture! I'm surprised you couldn't hear me screaming. This was work WORK. What I do to keep me in fabric. And it eats into my sewing time, so I don't appreciate having to do it more than once!

I just had to shut Excel down and I hadn't saved in awhile, so I had to figure out where I was and do some of it twice.

Not fun. I was MAD.

Cindy

I can't help with professional advice, but will think good thoughts at your computer, Polly!

Your subject line made me laugh. Honestly, Polly, when have you ever been out of trouble? You are my favorite joke teller and mischief maker!

WhoooooHoooooo, thank you Carolyn. I hope everyone of you lives long enough to turn loose. I marched in step way too many years. Polly

"Carolyn McCarty" I can't help with professional advice, but will think good thoughts at your

Chiming in here!!! Life is toooo short to sweat the small stuff...

marching was not my game either...that's why i am now single and lovin' it!!

go, girl!!

amy in CNY