Subj : XP_Many Questions
To : Ed Vance
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Oct 21 2019 12:48 am
In a post between "Ed Vance : All", on 10/19/2019 8:24 PM
> If I wasn't already Crazy, I'd say that my XP pc lately has been driving
> Me crazy.
It's probably NOT the OS (XP), but something else messing with the OS and then
results in the chaos you see. :)
> 1. Often when I move the mouse downwards without any buttons pressed,
> what I seeing on the screen Scrolls Down suddenly, oftentimes to the bottom
> of the page.
> The Mouse Pointer changes to a Circle when it does this. The Circle
> has a Dot in the center, a UP Arrow above the Dot and a DOWN Arrow
> below the Dot. Sometimes I see a Left Arrow and a Right Arrow with
> the other two Arrows.
> I've learned that Circle means "Reader Mode".
That state of the mouse and the resultant symbol is usually because the scroll
wheel has been pressed (toggled).
Maybe you are inadvertently pressing too hard on the wheel, or the mouse wheel
is defective, or time for a new mouse! ;)
> 2. Focus - when I have Buttons for more than one item in the Taskbar,
> lots of times (most of the time) if I click somewhere on the page I
> have open, the Mouse Click goes to the page I previously used that
> hasn't been Minimized instead of doing what I was clicking on, on the
> current page I'm using.
Might be easier to understand what you are experiencing with a video clip, but
maybe this result is tied into the "problem" with the scroll wheel?
> 3. CTRL-ALT-DEL - The Mouse doesn't do what I Click on and I have to do
> the Three Finger Salute and then Minimize Windows Task Manager by clicking
> the Button on the Task Bar to Minimize it.
>
> I'm doing that about 100 Times a day.
>
> At least the computer responds to the Three Finger Salute.
That definitely rules out the keyboard or OS as the problem. C-A-D has come to
the rescue for me many times as well. But 100 times a day is a problem for
sure!
> I've been thinking of putting some variety of Linux on this pc.
> At least then I will be able to use a Supported version of Firefox, instead
> of Firefox that isn't supported by Mozilla because Microsoft doesn't
> want to
> support the older O/S software they created.
I have one pc with XP that I use most of the time. It is using Firefox 52.8
32-bit quite nicely. I feel no compulsion to go to their offering of 52.9esr.
Linux and its many variants (distributions they call it) is quite nice these
days. I've explored retiring XP and replacing it with linux, but I still rely
on several Windows programs that I can't replace: Office, and Access to name
the two main ones.
When you say "MS doesn't want to support.." it's really just about the security
updates. Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing broken about XP! I'm a good
boy and I don't purposefully explore the darknet or respond to any unsolicited
links in email.
All is good with XP.
> Are there anyone reading who still uses XP?
ME! (waving madly)
Try another mouse (one without a scroll wheel if possible) to rule out an OS
problem.
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