[thelist] OT: Weird Windows problem

[Dan Parry]

OK I thought I'd just clear this up and let everyone know I've learned a
valuable lesson in Paying Attention

It was a stuck F11 key

Thanks to all that helped and to Mark and Jason for spotting what I
should've

Cheers

Dan

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Virtua Webtech Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of jason.handby
> Sent: 17 August 2006 10:21
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] OT: Weird Windows problem
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> 
> > OK so Windows problems aren't exactly rare in their nature
> 
> I'm running Windows XP here, and I can't remember the last time I had a
> significant Windows problem. So I'd say they were getting rarer these
> days... :-)
> 
> 
> > With this one, however, when the machine first boots up the first
> > window opened gets stuck in a loop switching between restored and
> > maximised window size... And it does it fast too... It looks like
> it's
> > trying to escape from the monitor... After closing that window (using
> > ALT + F4 because it's impossible to catch the close button)
> everything
> > is fine
> 
> Could it be a keyboard problem? Have you tried swapping to a different
> keyboard and mouse?
> 
> What is the first window that opens -- is it a specific application?
> Any clues as to why that application in particular might be having
> trouble?
> 
> Has it done this from the minute you first booted into Windows? Or is
> it since you installed something?
> 
> If you installed Windows yourself, have you tried reinstalling? If it
> came preinstalled you could send back the machine?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jason
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