irritating

  1. Windows 10 Mouse wheel sometimes changes it's function

    Bit of a strange one, here. When I'm browsing YouTube I'll usually hit the mouse wheel button to open a video in a new tab while I continue to browse. However sometimes Windows seems to change what it does, as it enables the scroll function. As you can see here - This scroll function is not...
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    Windows 7 Black section of screen (still functions)

    When I turned on my computer today, the desktop loaded up with part of the screen off the edge of the monitor. When I adjusted the screen into the right place I discovered the part that had been off screen was actually completely black. It still functions, all the buttons and the cursor beneath...
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    Windows 8 2 problems with not having touch screen

    1. Because I have to use the pad on my laptop for moving the cursor around, I keep getting those irritating side pop ups. Can I disable them? 2. When I am in a chat room, something I am doing is causing the zoom to resize my type. I know it must be something about where my cursor is but I...
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    Windows 7 Screen auto-scrolls up on my Acer Aspire 5742G notebook

    I have been using my Acer Aspire 5742G notebook for over 2 years now. Recently, I noticed a peculiar and very irritating issue. Rather two of them. First, the screen auto-scrolls abruptly and randomly (in no particular program, be it MS-Word / Excel or any browser). Also, when I type anything...
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    Windows 8 How do I stop pop-up ads tiny windows from opening

    Link Removed How do I stop such kind of pop-up ads tiny windows from opening in FF21 and chrome in w8? It is such a sickening, irritating feature. It has become a terror to move mouse in the browser lest that would come over such double-lined tags and this window will open. Even this site...
  6. "Tweets"

    Is there a mechanism by which we get rid of that intrusive and intensely irritating "tweets" link which necessitates scrolling up and down a page to read the text which it is blocking?
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    Windows 7 Computer crashes on USB or audio cable - Must be a grounding issue

    I've established that this is a grounding issue. About one third of the time, if I plug a USB device in, ANY device, the monitor will go blank, audio will stop, and I have to manually force a restart. If I tap the device on the metal case before plugging it in, and let the static discharge, the...
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    Windows 7 Strange dotted box on desktop (Screenshot Included)

    Hey everyone, I've had this issue for a while now, and I can't seem to get rid of it. There's a tiny dotted box that appears on my desktop everytime I exit/minimize an application. If I try to click it (either right or left), it disappears. It's not affecting anything functionally, but it is a...
  9. Windows 8 Enter does not work

    This is a minor problem, but in typing in any forum, this and others, with Win 8, my Enter key does not move the cursor to the next line, like this (entering this from Win 7) it does not seem to do anything. This is irritating because it does not allow me to add paragraph breaks, breaks around...
  10. Irratating feature

    Every time I want to do certain things a pop up appears that ask me for authentication How do I disable this feature it is more irritating than the Windows UAC
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    Windows Vista vista 2010/2011: trojan nasty little mutha!

    Just a line to see if anyone has encounterd ,that internet nasty vista 2011 malware remover,that is a trojan,that attaches itself to windows secdurity center, or pretends to be windows security center, and begins to warn through various false scans and notices, of attacks and spyware ,and all...
  12. Windows 7 Can not delete folder. Tried DropPermission, no joy

    I tried to delete a folder and Windows comes with those irritating messages that the folder is in use, while it is not. I tried Droppermissions, but after I run that on the folder i can still not delete it.:( I read on this forum about Unlocker, but that does not seem to work on windows 7...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 - problem sending command to the program...

    I windows 7 - 64 - problem sending command to the program...whenever I click on a file in explorer i get this problem...often after a few sec it does open the file..is this a time out thing..how can I stop it..not just a new even but irritating
  14. Windows 7 [HP probook 4510s] Display brightness problem

    Hi I have a problem with display brightness on my laptop. First I would like to say that I'm not a newbie, I've tried pretty much everything to solve this problem and I ran out of ideas.. So, the problem is that when using my laptop (no matter what power plan is active), my display goes dim...
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    Windows 7 Sneaky Software Makers

    I used PC Tools Registry Mechanics a few years ago and they slipped in an automatic renewal feature that nobody noticed unti they got billed. Webroot bought PC Tools a while ago and appar incorporated the same it's apparently hidden in their Terms of Use and you have to opt out manually. I just...
  16. Windows 7 Restart and Shutdown Screen of DEATH

    Well it's not exactly death but irritating. Yesterday after I installed and went threw the numerous restarts on installing. I procedded to install wow and my antivirus. On the restart when I changed my word size the restart froze,well the circle was turning but nothing happened. So I clicked the...
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    Windows 7 Network issues

    My internet dies roughly every 2 minutes, and the only solution is to run the network repair wizard. However, it just dies again within 2 minutes, repeating the same process. This is very irritating when trying to do ANYTHING! Are there any solutions available?