Re: Mouse cursor freezes up semi-permanently with whole computer

On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:25:26 -0700 (PDT), myfathersson wrote:

> Just got my first Vista computer and dont know where to turn for
> assistance with this problem: Tried googling it and all I can find are
> people whose mouse freezes for a few seconds but which starts working
> again. Every few hours (or more often), my mouse cursor and whole
> computer freezes. The only way out is to control-escape into a switch
> user and then (as there are no alternative users) log in again. As
> soon as it logs out, the mouse starts working again. So this doesnt

I agree with housetrained - borrow a mouse.

> The only other symptom I have noticed is that occasionally at all
> sorts of odd times as I am performing some common function (such as
> clicking on a link etc) I get a question asking me which program I
> want to use to open this program. And occasoinally I am told I dont
> have administrator rights where I thought I was the administrator and
> there doesnt seem to be any other way of logging on as administrator
> either in normal or safe mode. ( I can usually esc out of this message
> or perform the function as adminstrator

Either you don't have a program on your computer to open the file, or
you haven't yet told the system which program to open the file with.
Next time, go through the exercise of telling Windows which program to
use, and don't forget to check "always use this program".

> Have done all a/vs, spybots, anti-malwares, sfc /scannow, defrags,
> driver updates which are supposed to be automatic on Asus computers
> which never find any new drivers, (even where such exist!).

Not relevant to the file-open problem. Driver updates might be relevant
to the mouse problem, but I would think not. Intermittency is usually a
hardware problem, but of course, not always, unfortunately.

> The only
> minor problem I have found is that av-cls doesnt seem to run properly,
> instead it downloads most files it needs to do a sweep and then cuts
> dead or returns me to the start menu

That sounds like av-cls (whatever that is) isn't working properly.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:22:56 -0700 (PDT), myfathersson wrote:

> On Sep 6, 10:14*pm, "Gene E. Bloch" <not...@other.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> The only other symptom I have noticed is that occasionally at all
>>> sorts of odd times as I am performing some common function (such as
>>> clicking on a link etc) I get a question asking me which program I
>>> want to use to open this program. *And occasoinally I am told I dont
>>> have administrator rights where I thought I was the administrator and
>>> there doesnt seem to be any other way of logging on as administrator
>>> either in normal or safe mode. ( I can usually esc out of this message
>>> or perform the function as adminstrator
>>
>> Either you don't have a program on your computer to open the file, or
>> you haven't yet told the system which program to open the file with.
>> Next time, go through the exercise of telling Windows which program to
>> use, and don't forget to check "always use this program".
>>
>>> Have done all a/vs, spybots, anti-malwares, sfc /scannow, defrags,
>>> driver updates which are supposed to be automatic on Asus computers
>>> which never find any new drivers, (even where such exist!).
>>
>> Not relevant to the file-open problem. Driver updates might be relevant
>> to the mouse problem, but I would think not. Intermittency is usually a
>> hardware problem, but of course, not always, unfortunately.
>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
> I may not have explained myself properly: There is no call for a
> program to start when this happens. it happens at all sorts of odd
> times such as when I am clicking on a link. And an ordinary link, not
> one which calls for (for example) the opening of a pdf file which
> might need to start a program.

This new explanation confuses me as well :-)

If you are saying that when you click on a file name in Explorer, you
get an unexpected result or none at all, maybe that's part of the mouse
problem - the mouse sends a wrong signal and therefore the response is
wrong.

I still say Hardware.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)