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Phantom boxes on the tool bar
Why do I get these Phantom boxes on the tool bar?
For example, I dont use a screen saver, but apparently my monitor has one built in and it blanks out if I'm not on the puter. Then there is a box in the toolbar that says "screen saver". Later I will find this box with these words, or just a blank box. Clicking on it makes it go away. Why does this happen? |
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:45:22 -0600, Lostgallifreyan
wrote: wrote in : Why do I get these Phantom boxes on the tool bar? For example, I dont use a screen saver, but apparently my monitor has one built in and it blanks out if I'm not on the puter. Then there is a box in the toolbar that says "screen saver". Later I will find this box with these words, or just a blank box. Clicking on it makes it go away. Why does this happen? Somewhere on your machine there IS a screensaver. Or at least some power setting that turns off the monitor after some time. The blank taskbar boxes happen to me at times, usually from some program that got shut down unusually, or whose shutdown wasn't fully detected by Explorer. I don' t understand it fully, it's never seemed to need deep explorarion because it seems to cause no harm. If there is, I sure cant find where it it...... I always disable all those sort of things, like savers and power management stuff. It's annoying and on the older systems some of that stuff would cause a system crash. Especially the hard drive power down setting. I believe that was in Win95 where it would always cause a complete system lockup. Maybe even the first ver of 98. I just dont use any of that stuff. If I plan to leave the computer for hours I shut it off. I do agree those phantom boxes are harmless, just bizarre!!! |
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In message , MSVPforveer
writes: wrote in : On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:45:22 -0600, Lostgallifreyan wrote: wrote in : Why do I get these Phantom boxes on the tool bar? For example, I dont use a screen saver, but apparently my monitor has one built in and it blanks out if I'm not on the puter. Then there is a box in the toolbar that says You ****ing morn, monitors do NOT have built in screen savers. (You've mis-spelled the word you're trying to use as an insult.) Depends on what you describe as a screen saver. I've seen plenty of monitors that put up a little box saying "check input signal" or similar, when they can't detect any input signal - and they move this box around. (Usually just for a short while before going to standby altogether, but not always.) This could be described as a screen saver. Perhaps you were stupid enough to install all the **** on the CD which MAY have come with your L****CD monitor, and that's how you got it. "screen saver". Later I will find this box with these words, or just a blank box. Clicking on it makes it go away. Why does this happen? [] I get blank boxes in my taskbar on my 98SElite desktop machine - mainly if not exclusively from running IrfanView, and escaping from it. Just clicking on them makes them go away, but I can build up lots of them. Running IrfanView on my 98SElite laptop, or this XP netbook, doesn't make them appear. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: In message , MSVPforveer writes: wrote in m: snip You ****ing morn, monitors do NOT have built in screen savers. (You've mis-spelled the word you're trying to use as an insult.) Hi John, No, I mistyped it, I was so shocked at this person's stupidity I may have forgotten to run my spellchecker, and also, morn IS a word, especially according to my British-made spell checker by a Mr. Quinion. ***You***, OTOH, misspelled "mis-spelled". So, who "wins" this one? (---; Depends on what you describe as a screen saver. I don't think there are many definitions. Unless you include things like pouring hot lead into the eye sockets, or a hammer to the LCD. I've seen plenty of monitors that put up a little box saying "check input signal" or similar, when they can't detect any input signal - and they move this box around. (Usually just for a short while before going to standby altogether, but not always.) This could be described as a screen saver. True. But he described his, and it didn't sound like that. But I may have been blinded by my outrage at the depths of subhuman ignorance. Disabling your KF has its good and bad sides, I suppose. Speaking of which, how did you like the smiley references I posted FOR YOUR PERSONAL BENEFIT? snip Anyway, peace and love. How's the weather in good ole England? (I apologize if you are Welsh or Scottish, I have learned the HARD way that the Scots really get upset if you call them English...) |
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