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Total Vanity: Curious Computer Incident
freerepublic ^ | 6/6/2024 | Myself

Posted on 06/06/2025 2:39:55 PM PDT by Michael.SF.

Not sure what to make of this, perhaps people more knowledgeable about computers than I can add some insight:

I opened up my Lenovo laptop, I had not shut it down over night, just closed the screen. I could faintly hear music and some background noise. It sounded as if I was listening to a phone, that had been left off the hook with the line open.

I had no programs running. I then shut down and restarted. Problem went away.

I do subscribe to a computer help system that has in the past come into my computer to resolve issues through a program they use. This has not occurred for several weeks and only three time in the last two years.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computer; ghostsinthemachine; tech; vanity

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Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.
1 posted on 06/06/2025 2:39:55 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
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To: Michael.SF.

Not enough information to remotely offer ideas.


2 posted on 06/06/2025 2:41:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Have you tried sprinkling it with holy water?


3 posted on 06/06/2025 2:42:27 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Lazamataz

Fair comment, what else can I add that would be helpful?


4 posted on 06/06/2025 2:42:32 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (MAGA)
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To: Michael.SF.

5 posted on 06/06/2025 2:43:14 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie


(Well, more like three ghosts in the machine).

6 posted on 06/06/2025 2:44:43 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Michael.SF.

A browser that you didn’t know was open?


7 posted on 06/06/2025 2:44:47 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Michael.SF.

If it happens agains start up Task Manager and look at what is running and if there is anything that is unfamiliar to you.


8 posted on 06/06/2025 2:45:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Michael.SF.

My first suspicion would be a pop up ad.


9 posted on 06/06/2025 2:45:36 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Michael.SF.

Sounds like the flux capacitor has gone haywire.


10 posted on 06/06/2025 2:45:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Michael.SF.

Maybe it’s simply the fact that you post on this site?


11 posted on 06/06/2025 2:46:08 PM PDT by kawhill ("If you ain't got nowheres to run from, you must not have no place to run to." Cormac McCarthy)
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To: Michael.SF.

It really depends on the features of the laptop.

Some shut off when you close the lid. Others just go into “sleep” mode, but are still on under the radar. Some music programs still play in sleep mode.

Could be any of these.


12 posted on 06/06/2025 2:46:08 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Michael.SF.

If you were using a program with that music, it is likely that part of the gram didn’t shut down. I find that happens on occasion. In that case, you’d have to enter task manager and shut it down manually.


13 posted on 06/06/2025 2:47:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: Michael.SF.

Something else to check is if another device connected through bluetooth.


14 posted on 06/06/2025 2:48:49 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: T.B. Yoits
"Well, more like three ghosts in the machine"

Heh heh. Yep. That sounds about right.

15 posted on 06/06/2025 2:49:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: T.B. Yoits

“My first suspicion would be a pop up ad.”

Yeah, they don’t put much effort into having them close correctly.

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16 posted on 06/06/2025 2:53:19 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Raycpa

The Alexa app? There for a while she was playing music unprompted.
“Alexa, turn the music off.”
Alexa: “Make me.”


17 posted on 06/06/2025 2:54:36 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Michael.SF.

Honestly, some child program that was playing music (and keeping your notebook awake) got disassociated with its parent program - never heard the message to die - probably random cosmic ray hitting the right bit.

It’s just one of those things when a bunch of random programs are running does something that some other thing that no one ever envisioned.

(Developed notebooks from back in the windows 3.1 days)


18 posted on 06/06/2025 2:56:36 PM PDT by tje (Only thing worse than climate change is the government trying to fix it.)
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To: tumblindice

“Alexa, play Bruno Mars.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvfNQV8Yrjo


19 posted on 06/06/2025 3:00:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: tumblindice

So you installed the ex-wife version of Alexa?


20 posted on 06/06/2025 3:03:20 PM PDT by Raycpa
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