toshiba satellite virtual buttons

In my vista based Toshiba Satellite, if you move the mouse to the top edge
of the screen a row of "on screen" virtual buttons drops down from the top
edge. They have functions like sleep, brighness etc.
Note: I'm fairly sure this is a toshiba thing and not a microsoft thing but
i cant find anywhere else to ask.
I am always inadvertantly bumping my mouse on the top edge of the screen if
a window title bar is close to it, its very annoying to have this thing
unexpectedly drop down and most of the time it wont disappear by itself, you
have to click the left hand escape virtual button and then click on a
regular window somewhere for it to slide back up into the top edge.
What is that thing called? I cant google it successfully cuz i have no idea
what it is referred to as.
Is there a way to disable that? There must be a utility somewhere that has
a check box that says "dont use this feature"
HELP!
Thanks
Eric

I would think that somewhere is a button or menu item called
'Preferences..." or "Options..." or "Properties..."

You should be able to find a check-box with something like "Run at start up"

Failing that, have you checked the software uninstall bit in Control Panel?
Perhaps you can uninstall the tool bar (or whatever they decided to call it)
without uninstalling anything else.

Have you checked the Toshiba web site for a FAQ or discussion group?

"Eric" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> In my vista based Toshiba Satellite, if you move the mouse to the top edge
> of the screen a row of "on screen" virtual buttons drops down from the top
> edge. They have functions like sleep, brighness etc.
> Note: I'm fairly sure this is a toshiba thing and not a microsoft thing
> but i cant find anywhere else to ask.
> I am always inadvertantly bumping my mouse on the top edge of the screen
> if a window title bar is close to it, its very annoying to have this thing
> unexpectedly drop down and most of the time it wont disappear by itself,
> you have to click the left hand escape virtual button and then click on a
> regular window somewhere for it to slide back up into the top edge.
> What is that thing called? I cant google it successfully cuz i have no
> idea what it is referred to as.
> Is there a way to disable that? There must be a utility somewhere that
> has a check box that says "dont use this feature"
> HELP!
> Thanks
> Eric
>
>

Hi Eric,

It's a Toshiba utility that is installed by Toshiba. I can't quite remember
the name of the utility. Check the manual that came with the laptop, it
should provide more information there.


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"Eric" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> In my vista based Toshiba Satellite, if you move the mouse to the top edge
> of the screen a row of "on screen" virtual buttons drops down from the top
> edge. They have functions like sleep, brighness etc.
> Note: I'm fairly sure this is a toshiba thing and not a microsoft thing
> but i cant find anywhere else to ask.
> I am always inadvertantly bumping my mouse on the top edge of the screen
> if a window title bar is close to it, its very annoying to have this thing
> unexpectedly drop down and most of the time it wont disappear by itself,
> you have to click the left hand escape virtual button and then click on a
> regular window somewhere for it to slide back up into the top edge.
> What is that thing called? I cant google it successfully cuz i have no
> idea what it is referred to as.
> Is there a way to disable that? There must be a utility somewhere that
> has a check box that says "dont use this feature"
> HELP!
> Thanks
> Eric
>
>

Google for example 'sleep function in Vista' or 'drop down menu'---- you
will get lots of ideas !!
Have a look in Display properties too for the power settings ????? You are
not very informative in your query in any case!!!!!



"Eric" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> In my vista based Toshiba Satellite, if you move the mouse to the top edge
> of the screen a row of "on screen" virtual buttons drops down from the top
> edge. They have functions like sleep, brighness etc.
> Note: I'm fairly sure this is a toshiba thing and not a microsoft thing
> but i cant find anywhere else to ask.
> I am always inadvertantly bumping my mouse on the top edge of the screen
> if a window title bar is close to it, its very annoying to have this thing
> unexpectedly drop down and most of the time it wont disappear by itself,
> you have to click the left hand escape virtual button and then click on a
> regular window somewhere for it to slide back up into the top edge.
> What is that thing called? I cant google it successfully cuz i have no
> idea what it is referred to as.
> Is there a way to disable that? There must be a utility somewhere that
> has a check box that says "dont use this feature"
> HELP!
> Thanks
> Eric
>
>

Eric <>, the slobbering-itinerant and stout hand queen
who likes wild butt snorting with ground squirrels, and whose partner is
a woman of the town with a big cock pit, wrote in
<>:
> In my vista based Toshiba Satellite, if you move the mouse to the top edge
> of the screen a row of "on screen" virtual buttons drops down from the top
> edge. They have functions like sleep, brighness etc.
> Note: I'm fairly sure this is a toshiba thing and not a microsoft thing
> but i cant find anywhere else to ask.
> I am always inadvertantly bumping my mouse on the top edge of the screen
> if a window title bar is close to it, its very annoying to have this thing
> unexpectedly drop down and most of the time it wont disappear by itself,
> you have to click the left hand escape virtual button and then click on a
> regular window somewhere for it to slide back up into the top edge.
> What is that thing called? I cant google it successfully cuz i have no
> idea what it is referred to as.
> Is there a way to disable that? There must be a utility somewhere that
> has a check box that says "dont use this feature"
> HELP!
> Thanks
> Eric
>
>


Uninstall all the toshiba ****, one by one, starting with anything that
looks like it might be the culprit.
Once you have found the item you'll want to put your laptop back to factory
settings and uninstall all the **** you don't want before you set it up and
take a working image.

You could also just start killing **** in task mangler and take note when
the functionality of the thing ends.


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in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

It's called Toshiba Flash cards. I disabled it by running MSCONFIG and
unchecking it from the startup tab.


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