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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: February 07, 2015, 12:16:41 am »

It's a pity that the programs that detect & delete malwares don't or can' tell from what download they originated from, then perhaps there could be a list of sites to avoid.  Some utilities like 'MediaInfo' used to be clean but this is no longer true.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: February 05, 2015, 09:57:28 pm »

The fellow that look at my machine ran a utility called Hitman Pro on it & it reported that I had a PUP called Snapdo on the machine.  I don't think that this could possible have caused my problems but I'm surprised that MalwareBytes Pro which runs every day didn't detect it.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: February 04, 2015, 08:53:23 pm »

I had a fellow I know over at the house working on this PC for a couple of hours on this problem.I could not follow everything that he did but I know many of the things looked at are things suggested on this forum.  We tried several things including the mouse & that may have been the culprit but I can't be more certain.

So at this time it appears things are back in focus.  Thanks to Shane & the others for the help.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 30, 2015, 06:44:43 pm »

I have seen it happen with other programs as well as when I select shutdown as previously mentioned.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 28, 2015, 05:52:05 pm »

I don't know if Notepad is inherently different from other programs but I can across an unusual mention of 'Notepad' on the forum for the indexing program 'Everything'.

"Certain files under Windows Vista and Windows 7 are hard links.
"Everything" will not include hard links.
For example, on Windows 7 C:\windows\notepad.exe is a hard link to c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
Only the original file c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe will show in "Everything".

Could this have bearing on current problem?

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 28, 2015, 03:23:55 am »

Whether I open the notebook programs one at a time one first then the other or both together nothing changes.  The other thing that does the same sort of thing was as I mentioned the shutdown message.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 27, 2015, 03:49:51 am »

I have done this.  The only difference that I can see is if I hover cursor over icon I see the program name rather than a preview of page.  Notebook & Notebook ++ still behave as before closing as soon as they open.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 26, 2015, 10:55:53 pm »

Finally I was able to borrow another Keyboard/mouse. Sad to say,nothings changed.  I can open a half a dozed different programs & each one stays on top of the previous one.  If I run the cursor across the icons on task bar each one has its preview. 

If I open Notepad or Notepad ++ they both just flash for a fraction of a second & drop to the task bar.  If I run cursor across the task bar to their icon I get the preview but its often difficult if not possible to reopen them unless I start shutting everything else down.

Another problem related to this is when I tell the machine to shut down & Windows says that I have open Windows that must close first.  You can't just tells it to close down anyway but have to drill down to  find what program is open so that you can close it.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 20, 2015, 07:45:09 pm »

I haven't tried any other Keyboard/mice other than the ones mentioned in previous posts.  When I plug in the cordless receiver/transmitter I get the audio signal from Windows but pressing the button to make connecting to both nothing happens even with new batteries.  They don work on another PC howerer.

I will have a friend back in a few days time that is likely to have another keyboard/mouse to try.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 18, 2015, 10:21:07 pm »

I had another question about drivers that I  forgot to ask in the last reply.  Many programs Avaste,Ashampoo etc offer to update drivers.  Are any of these reliable or are they just going to create more problems?

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 18, 2015, 09:23:13 pm »

Shane I would have replied earlier but I had the box ticked to get replies but none did.  I see that you have a new version of the All in One Tool available so I have downloaded & installed it.

I had checked device manager before I started but there are no yellow flags & when asked for it to check for newer drivers it said that I already had the best, but Windows never says otherwise even when its wrong.

I turned off my anti virus & ran all of the tweaks as administrator.  Unfortunately nothing appears to have changed.  I have checked Notebook & Notebook ++ as well as other programs.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 15, 2015, 08:57:20 pm »

I found the answer myself & have now run this program.  It took only about 7-8 minutes but reports no problems..

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 15, 2015, 08:28:42 pm »

I hadn't read the previous posting closely enough & hadn't noticed that sfc /scannow was to be run from a command prompt.  This suggests that this is part of Windows itself & not a 3rd party program.

I have run many programs as administrator even though I'm the only person who touches this machine. How do you run as an administrator from a CMR prompt?  Can I turn of the prompt for administrator completely?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 15, 2015, 12:35:08 am »

I haven't had a chance yet as we are looking after 2 grand kids this week.  I have noticed however that the keyboard is no longer allowing me to select a range of items to ,cut,paste, move etc. 

I'm also always hesitant to try programs that I have never heard of before unless I can get assurance that they aren't harmful as there are so many programs just full of PUP's etc.

I has also reluctant to even try this Tweaking program until it had been recommended by a few people that I know.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 13, 2015, 07:34:45 pm »

The Keyboard that I have been using recently is a small Logitech K220 which connect to PC via a dongle.  I also have 2 other older Logitech models which connect through USB models Y-raj56a & LX 710.   I thought that they were both  just plug & play but when I plugged one in it updated its software.

I have put new batteries in both & pressed the connect button after Windows made its connect sound & said that drivers were installed.  Neither of these keyboard/mouse combos are working at all even though I had used them as recently as yesterday on another PC that used Windows 8.

So another mystery.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 12, 2015, 10:48:43 pm »

Other windows definitely loose focus.  I had to download & install a few updates for some programs.  I downloaded the updates & it says it's ready to install nut before I  get the cursor there to install update its, gone & I have to shut down all open windows to find it.

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 12, 2015, 06:17:22 pm »

I could not get into safe mode by using F8.  I'm on Windows 7 Pro. So I told msconfig to reboot into safe mode. Once started I opened a few programs & even though its hard to see whats open because everything is enlarged it would appear that both Notepad & Notepad ++ still loose focus. 

I think that even in regular mode some other programs also loose focus.

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: PC still loosed focus

« on: January 12, 2015, 04:52:06 am »

A full scan using Malwares bytes is always done first thing every morning, as is Avaste anti virus before any thing else is done.  Tweaking was run as administrator.  I don't know what sfc/scannow is.

I'll try safe mode in the morning.

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General Computer Support / Re: Delete 68 GB file

« on: January 12, 2015, 01:14:35 am »

Since I didn't get any reply's I decided to just go ahead & delete the file.  This hasn't presented any problems.  I also deleted my 12G paging file & told Windows not to run any on my 'C' drive which is an SSD but it re created the same one anyway once I rebooted.

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General Computer Support / PC still loosed focus

« on: January 12, 2015, 01:08:15 am »

I have just rerun the the all in one tweaking tool to see it anything thing had changed with regards 'my PC loosing focus'. The problem was that if I had a few windows open & I opened the Notepad it would flash for half a second before just becoming an icon on the task bar  It's been almost impossible to get it to stay open even when I clicked on the icon now on Task bar to do things like copy & paste.

Someone suggested that I should try an alternative to Notepad so I selected Notepad ++.  Sad to say this both programs perform in the same way & that nothing has improved.  I see from the net that many other have yet to discover why this occurs.

Any more ideas?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Delete 68 GB file

« on: January 09, 2015, 12:49:31 am »

I was trying out the program called 'Everything' which literally indexes everything you give it access to on your PC.  I sorted the complete list by size & I find a backup file listed on my 'e' drive called backupofxp.bkf  & is a whopping 68GB.  I says it was created March 2014.  But if I go to that drive I can't find it. 

The only things that is remotely similar on that drive is a file called 'backp.tly dated aug 2014 & this is much smaller.  The first file appears that it might be some sort of backup for Windows XP  but why it should be on this drive at all I can't imagine since I have had Windows 7 Pro for years.  I have deleted file from Everything before.  Should I delete this one.?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Move or delete paging file

« on: December 11, 2014, 10:04:14 pm »

My question is about the paging file. My 'c' drive is an SSD. I see that the this.  I had been trying to keep this this just for programs & have music,piscture videos etc on other drives.  I notice that the paging file is on 'C' drive & now over 12 GB.  Should I move,delete it?  I do a lot of Video work using Sony Vegas pro.  My system is a i7 920 with 12 GB ram.

Thanks in advance 

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General Computer Support / Permissions for everyprogram?

« on: December 11, 2014, 08:50:47 pm »

When I run your tweaking all in one program,some of the elements looked at are permissions.  I am the the only person who ever uses this PC.  Is there any way to change permissions for every program & run everything as if I was administrator?

Thanks in advance

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General Computer Support / Re: How long do you let it run?

« on: November 08, 2014, 04:46:33 pm »

Even thought I had some improvement by running the all in 1 & had the program do many updates it had previously downloaded & had reversed before.  It still didn't change to 8.1.

From what I read almost everyone hates Windows 8 & 8.1 so maybe I'm better off without it.  Microsoft goes from one horror to another.  I see that Microsoft has already withdrawn from sale almost all versions of 7 & 8 & intends to jump to version 10.

I bought Windows 95 when it first came out but as everyone knows if didn't do what it claimed.  The you bought & paid for Windows 98, with exactly the same results. I have also been through the same thing other version like XP ,7 & some other versions.

If anyone intends to use Windows 10, Microsoft should be paying you for all of the wasted time & money it cost.  Instead of purchasing it we should be suing them for false advertising.

These big software have bugs in them & continue to do so.  Another example is iTunes  which for years has had a duplicate track finder that is wrong. You can have the same song title by the same artist on different albums, with different arrangements & could have been recorded 30 years apart ,where the length of the one version can to double that of the other one yet they call them duplicates. 

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General Computer Support / Re: How long do you let it run?

« on: November 08, 2014, 03:42:03 am »

Once finished the pc was rebooted. I had to request this becuse the program didn't do it even though the box to do so was ticked.  The first thing I looked for the snipping tool & was pleased to see it was restored.

It then did a lot of updates that previously failed, so that to seems to have been fixed.  I will look later to see if it also moved to version 8.1 or not.

I'll let you know. Thanks again as things certainly been improved.