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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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when I put my curser on the bottom arrow of the scroll bar on the right…it will ‘run away’ and scroll really fast down and is impossible to stop
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pat,
How could I possibly tell you what to try, when I have no idea what kind of device you have, who makes it, and what program/app is acting strange?
But that kind of “issue” is usually cured with a reboot. If not, have a tech take a look; it’s probably a quick fix (aka cheap).
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I have a gateway laptop running Windows 8. I turned on my laptop but had a strange screen that I haven’t seen before. It was BLACK has the the date and time. Shows battery power and WiFi strenght. I push enter to bring me to my log on screen. When I try to log on it will allow me to type every letter but the T. I cleaned the key board with compressed air, took the cap off of the T key and it was clean so I don’t know what’s going on. I try to hit the Windows key but it does nothing. Can you help me
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You came over here to this page to post your question because I had turned off Comments on that troubleshooting article. (aka ‘Gaming the system’). Did you read the comment I posted explaining WHY I turned it off??
It’s because I have no new answers – read the ones already provided in the 200+ other questions (“Comments”) people have asked.
If one of those D-I-Y tips doesn’t fix it. Take it to a tech.
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