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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - Well that's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 656/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Well I was working in Photoshop, and hit Ctrl+F to repeat the last filter, nothing unusual. But instead of doing that, the window moves and resizes. I hit it a few more times (not noticing, since I did it pretty fast) and not only was the image window messed, the entire PS window was now stretched past the top of my screen and under the taskbar on the right.  So I closed and re-opened that (the filters were applied btw, but it never actually redrew the image), and started working again. Out of nowhere, 8 "Search Results" windows pop up! They don't come onto the screen right away, just kinda flood into the taskbar. There's nothing in the actual results and no search is being performed. (At this point I disconnected from the Internet.  ) Is there some sort of virus that does this sort of thing? I've heard of Windoze having some odd bugs, especially with high memory usage (every time I right-click an item and go to Open in the Start menu, for example, I get a Move To prompt instead  ) but I just can't fathom how something like 8 simultaneous search windows being launched could happen accidentally. |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49  Posts: 279/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| If your Windows is buggy and has also other oddities since a longer time (like you mentioned it in your post), I'd suggest you to reinstall your OS. If you are running 2000 or XP and don't have a crappy OEM CD, you could try to repair it. I only could think that the keyboard driver is messed up or was lagging; I had a problem on my old comp rarely that Windows "remembered" the last time I used the right mouse button: So I marked a file in the Explorer or Desktop with a left click, I could open the program normally, but after I wanted to click another icon, it rather selected the new one together with the old one. And a right click, of course, showed the "shared" context menu when dealing with multiple files ... and I didn't use Shift + left click If this happens not too often, save your file(s) you worked on, try to reboot with an empty and clean RAM. If this happened too often, as said I'd suggest at least try to run defrag/chkdsk. If that fails, save all your important data, format your hard drive and reinstall your system ... thus removing also your other bugs in Windoze  (edited by Gandalf The Grey on 05-15-04 08:02 AM) |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 585/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| who says viruses are always destructive? anyways, probably it is just one of those freak accidents that happen in hardware and mess up the operation of the computer for that session. in addition, such bugs (if they really are) are really, really hard to reproduce. so unless it happens consistenly, i say get over it because complaining to windows isn't going to do you any good and defecting doesn't mean that bug won't be seen in the other OS (edited by neotransotaku on 05-15-04 12:56 PM) |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47  Posts: 476/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| sounds to me like you hit the Windows key on accident..... | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 673/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Hey, neat, I never knew about that.  But that doesn't explain the windows resizing, reshaping, and not redrawing. I wasn't really looking for an explanation (unless it's a virus, which I doubt). |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 439/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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BGenesis Red Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 10/38 EXP: 5415 For next: 570 Since: 05-17-04 From: In the tyranny that is Brittania. Since last post: 516 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Either way, backup and reinstall your OS... but if it isn't affecting your PC in any other way, I doubt it would be a virus. Unless it was coded by some Adobe-hater.  |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 592/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| i dunno if that helps because his computer is underpowers, it is running winXP in not recommended conditions... | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 688/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by FreeDOS Well random window openings I can imagine being caused by a virus, but I think that might have been a typo/keyboard glitch. I can't imagine one just resizing windows, especially being triggered at the same time. Neo: What are the recommended specs? I thought they were like 64MB, 500mhz, I'm on 192/800. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 601/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| well...what you have is above minimum and recommended specs...but I think those numbers are for running just the OS...not running the OS and non-microsoft software... anyways...the "reality adjustments" 600MHz CPU with 256 MB of RAM and 15GB of HD space -- microsoft minimum are 300MHz/128MB/1.5GB |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 694/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Close enough, but I already know I need more RAM. I have some but it's too fast for my crapbox.  |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 504/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| yeah a few windows resize themselves ONCE let's reinstall windows *shakes head* |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 607/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker it is probably more of the fact that your crapbox feeds the RAM too much power...DDR uses 2.5V while PC133 and below uses 3.3V... |
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Xkeeper The required libraries have not been defined. Level: NAN  Posts: -4407/-863 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: -753366 sec. |
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| I'd say to try rebooting. If that doesn't work then run a virus scan, then try reinstalling the OS, and last resort is reformat. Not everyone likes to back up everything. Now for the search windows it was probably a mistype [Winderz Key + F = Search Window] but for the resizing, were you messing with the window when you did it? If there was any hotkeys for that... bleh... Never had that happen, though |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 450/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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He could've accidently hit ALT+SPACE, M. But ... that's hard to press accidently.  |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 1787/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Originally posted by FreeDOSNot on DOS games... I did that alot on my 486 before. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 612/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| what does Alt+Space M do? | |||
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 451/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| ALT+SPACE = System Menu M = Move command. That's what it does. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 703/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Well if I did that, it'd still have had the movement cursor there, not to mention that the window was maximized and shouldn't be below the taskbar. I've been considering reinstalling, but not because of that. More because of things like tooltips disappearing and things suddenly not working, the way Windoze likes to do. As for the RAM, would too much power really do that? I would expect it'd just crash. There's the original 128MB that came with it, plus 64 from some old school computer. I tried putting in another 128, but the clock speed was off (too high I believe), so it wouldn't run. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 620/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker too much voltage into a RAM stick would (1) the computer won't run and worse (2) fry the RAM stick (which is what happened to me when I put DDR into a Dell P2-400  )as for clock speed...if the RAM is too slow, then it is understandable, but if the RAM is fast...then i dunno. I have put PC133 into a computer that uses RAM at PC100 level (my Dell p2-400) |
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