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Jon B. - Jun 29, 2005 2:12:40 am PDT #3548 of 10003

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

eBay knows all!

OK, a weird thing happened to my main 'puter overnight. Running Windows XP home. My mouse is "stuck" to one spot on the screen. When I try to drag the mouse, with or without holding any of the mouse buttons down, it starts to move across the screen but quickly "snaps back" to its original location. I've tried using a different mouse in both the PS2 plug and the USB plug with no change.

Needless to say -- Very frustrating! Any ideas? It was working fine 9 hours ago.

DXMachina - Jun 29, 2005 2:27:47 am PDT #3549 of 10003

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Have you tried restarting? 'Cause that's all I've got.

Jon B. - Jun 29, 2005 3:02:19 am PDT #3550 of 10003

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I did and it didn't help. But I'll leave it powered down and try again this evening.

Theodosia - Jun 29, 2005 3:07:57 am PDT #3551 of 10003

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Try Add/Remove Hardware and reinstall the mouse drivers? It should be possible to do without actually using the mouse....

Tom Scola - Jun 29, 2005 5:22:29 am PDT #3552 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Free TiVo! (with subscription).

lisah - Jun 29, 2005 5:33:49 am PDT #3553 of 10003

Punishingly Intricate

I just ordered a refurbished iBook! WOO! Thanks everybody for your advice and guidance!!! I'm sure I'll have many more questions when I actually get the thing.

Steph L. - Jun 29, 2005 5:55:04 am PDT #3554 of 10003

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Lisah! Woot!!!

Good lord. We're getting a Mac Mini here to replace a co-worker's PowerMac 7600 (yes, you read that right). We're not getting a monitor from Apple, because -- expensive -- and the purchasing manager just asked me "To be sure, I can order a regular monitor that will not need any device to hook up to the mac, right?"

All I need to tell her is that any new monitor will work with the Mini, right? I don't need to get into "DVI" and other terms that will just confuse her?

tommyrot - Jun 29, 2005 5:57:47 am PDT #3555 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

All I need to tell her is that any new monitor will work with the Mini, right? I don't need to get into "DVI" and other terms that will just confuse her?

Yes. Although there is a resolution limit. And even though my 1600x1200 DVI LCD monitor falls within those limits it still doesn't display right on the Mini.

Any normal-sized monitor will work fine. If she's gonna used a big monitor, check the specs at apple.com.

The Mini has a DVI output, but it has an adapter for regular VGA.

Steph L. - Jun 29, 2005 6:03:05 am PDT #3556 of 10003

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Any normal-sized monitor will work fine. If she's gonna used a big monitor, check the specs at apple.com.

Yeah, it'll be a normal-sized monitor, prolly a 19-inch CRT.

tommyrot - Jun 29, 2005 6:05:13 am PDT #3557 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. I remember when 19-inch was huge....

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