Re: ANNOYING AT ITS BEST, - please help

Got first problem down, but I still get invisible mouse, freezing browser,
and the continuous "ENter your Message" when i put my pointer over a text bow
(like this one).
Still trying out your other solutions - TY ~ Ballzley

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi Ballzley,

Maybe not all, but at least the first issue. :)

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Ballzley Wrote:
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| Thanks a LOT, I'll try these - as long as it may take. All of these
| steps/solutions go to all 3 of my issues? I'm just clarifying.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Ballzley,
||
|| Here are some solutions (and workarounds) to deal with the problem where games minimize to the Task Bar.
||
|| 1. Install and/or play the game using an administrator account.
||
|| 2. Keyboard software has been known to cause this problem. One player
|| posted that by un-installing their Trust Silverline Direct Access keyboard
|| software, all their games worked again without minimizing to the Task Bar.
||
|| 3. Norton's AntiVirus (Internet Security) can cause the problem as well. The
|| workaround is to disable the program. To do so, right click it's Tray icon.
|| One person wrote: "I just went to the Norton Anti-virus options, and turned
|| off the Liveupdate auto update option. It worked like a charm for me."
||
|| 4. One person wrote: "I finally found that if I open the command line, cd to
|| the directory, then type the program name, it works!!!"
||
|| 5. Yet another workaround is to click the screen after you launch the game.
||
|| If the problem persists, please try these additional troubleshooting steps. :-)
||
|| The most common causes for that problem can be solved with
|| these few steps. If the problem persists after you've tried these,
|| please post back and we'll try some more solutions. Good luck! :-)
||
|| A. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
|| programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
|| blockers using: http://new.jtsoft2001.com/windows/startup.php
||
|| You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
|| http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
||
|| B. Run a virus scan at: http://housecall.antivirus.com Afterwards
|| Download & Run Spybot from: http://security.kolla.de to find any
|| Trojans, Adware, or Spyware which could clog up your system.
||
|| C. Click My Computer / Rightclick the Drive & Choose Properties
|| / Run the "Disk Cleanup..." / Next Click the "Tools" Tab and run
|| the "Error-Checking" and "Defragmentation" utilities.
||
|| D. Go to the Windows Update site for everything under Critical and
|| Recommended: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Some games
|| require a patch: http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
||
|| E. Update DirectX and your Chipset, Sound, &Video Drivers:
|| For all Video / DirectX / Game and Hardware Issues, I have a
|| Checklist of Solutions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| Ballzley Wrote:
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||| I have been having very annoying problems with my computer lately, most of
||| them involving games that take up the whole screen, and need a few sec. to
||| minimize ad maximize them (in this case, Counter-strike 1.6 and GunboundNA).
||| First, my game is minimized (button for it at bottom of screen, near
||| taskbar). I click it (to maximize it so I can play it), it tries to go
||| ingame, so that it takes up the screen, but then it goes back into minimized
||| mode - in this case my desktop (I usually don't multitask when playing
||| games...).
||| Second, on top of the last issue, my mouse pointer will sometimes become
||| invisible (can't see where my white mouse pointer is!)on my screen, so that I
||| have to restart my whole computer just to see it again!! But this one occurs
||| rarely, and my parents who simply tried to use the internet had this problem
||| as well.
||| Last, but not least, while on the internet trying to open up a page, it just
||| freezes on me! I have to wait about 10sec and ctrl+alt+delete it to get the
||| new page loading (weird problem, but yes)!
||| I've only had my computer for maybe 3 or 2 years at the most, and I really
||| don't want to call Geek Squad, as they charge too much :(
||| Please help, it will appreciated at the highest level x.x I just don't want
||| these problems anymore...
||| TY, and srry for long post, but, i did so to prevent unnecessary questions.



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