help, computer really goofy

From: larryo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:31:32 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>I was on the computer last night as well as playing with
my little girl and
>talking to my wife. I had my e-mail up (SBC yahoo) in
it's own browser. After
>an hour or two when my wife and daughter went to bed, I
started to get ready
>myself and I went to look at my e-mail one more time as
I hit the refresh
>button and I noticed thats where my problem started.
>
>I noticed that it seemd like it was loading the page
quick, but it would
>never really load it. I thought I would do a clean sweep
and see if that
>helped and started to close the 2 windows I had open.
>
>When I made it to the desktop and opened the program, I
moved my mouse over
>the icon and it opened by it's self, and the program
opened 10-15 windows.
>After that any icon I draged my mouse over would open. I
could not right
>click and I went to shut down, but instead it put me in
stand by mode. I
>finially got the computer off with a shut doiwn, and I
pulled the plug to
>kill and static the machine may have had, and I
rebooted, the problem was
>still there.
>
>I did scans for ad-ware, and it found 19, I deleted, and
then I did a virus
>scan, and nothing! Anyone out there, can you help me?
>.

Matt,

Have you tried replacing the mouse? Your description is
very similar to a problem I had at work with a mouse that
had an intermittant short in the printed circuit board in
the mouse. If you have access to another mouse it is
going to be the easiest thing to rule out.

Luck larryo
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