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My Computer Goes Nuts Every Time I Freep. Anyone else?
Free Republic | 11/10/20 | Eleutheria5

Posted on 11/10/2020 4:29:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5

It's fine until I tune into Free Republic, and then the screen goes upside down, or sideways, or twirls around willy nilly. Or it starts scrolling down uncontrollably and then shutting the page I'm on, and it keeps doing this even after I leave freep. Anyone else getting this problem?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: adjusttinfoilhat; ciaoperation; corruption; freep; nsawatchingyou; stalinazis; virus; whiner
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To: central_va

We still have WD40, so still hanging on.


41 posted on 11/10/2020 5:50:39 AM PST by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: central_va

Before that new crap, Duct Tape, we Olde timers used bailing wire!


42 posted on 11/10/2020 5:52:43 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: Eleutheria5

We would have killed for a wooden knob, we had to use chipped flint knobs, and let me tell you, the edges were sharp! if we changed the channel more than a few times a day our fingers wouldn’t heal for weeks!


43 posted on 11/10/2020 5:52:59 AM PST by null and void (A republic ... if you can keep it.)
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To: DoodleBob

Not Serutan? It’s natures spelled backwards...


44 posted on 11/10/2020 5:56:05 AM PST by null and void (A republic ... if you can keep it.)
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To: 21twelve
It always was frustrating to have the signal just right while you were touching the antenna, but when you let go it went bad again. “No - I’m not going to stand here all night!”

AH! You've met my mom!

45 posted on 11/10/2020 5:58:45 AM PST by null and void (A republic ... if you can keep it.)
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To: \/\/ayne

I see you really are logged in...

46 posted on 11/10/2020 5:59:57 AM PST by null and void (A republic ... if you can keep it.)
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To: Darksheare

Do you have anything to add here?


47 posted on 11/10/2020 6:02:18 AM PST by null and void (A republic ... if you can keep it.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I thought you were kidding.

Take off the computer case, find the disk drive, unplug it, unscrew it, remove it. Then take it outside and use the most destructive weapon you have, like a shotgun, AND SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD.


48 posted on 11/10/2020 6:05:05 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Eleutheria5
If this is not a joke, you have some sort of malware and your current antivirus can’t see the issue or it’s a strange Windows configuration:

1. Strange Windows option fix:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance-winpc/screen-is-always-rotating/63c745f2-501e-4094-bf2b-f7822eadf236

It wouldn’t surprise me if there were other official Microsoft options people now have to checked such as:

“Prevent screen from jerking around”
“Prevent screen from flipping upside down”

It’s not unlike Facebook when it brings in new privacy settings which effectively removed the prior settings, leaving you to hunt and reset them.

2. If malware, download a free self-booting antivirus program and boot with that (and not your Windows). It can then scan your drives without the virus affecting it.

Avira and other antiviruses have generally free downloads that do this service. They have their own operating system (usually Linux).

Hope this helps.

49 posted on 11/10/2020 6:05:59 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


50 posted on 11/10/2020 7:19:39 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


51 posted on 11/10/2020 7:19:40 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


52 posted on 11/10/2020 7:19:40 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


53 posted on 11/10/2020 7:19:40 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


54 posted on 11/10/2020 7:19:41 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

The only time my computer went “upside down” was when I was in Communist China. I’m not particularly tech-savvy, and this freaked me out. Luckily a young designer on the trip had the patience to set it right.

But it happened more than once in China.

BTW, our university tech department did not let me take a normal computer to China in 2017 and 2019. The “student loaner” computer was completely stripped of all programs except those I’d need on the trip, like PowerPoint. The word was that the Chinese copied one’s whole drive when they had access.


55 posted on 11/10/2020 7:20:00 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Eleutheria5

Use these keyboard shortcuts:
CTRL ALT UP
CTRL ALT DOWN
CTRL ALT LEFT
CTRL ALT RIGHT


56 posted on 11/10/2020 7:26:16 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Eleutheria5

Also, update your graphic drivers.


57 posted on 11/10/2020 7:27:03 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Eleutheria5

If the keyboard shortcuts don’t work, right click on an empty space and select GRAPHICS SETTINGS or something similar . Select CONTROL HOTKEY ACTIVATION.


58 posted on 11/10/2020 7:29:57 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: null and void

Coffee.


59 posted on 11/10/2020 8:20:03 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: null and void

60 posted on 11/10/2020 8:28:56 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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