[eskielover]

When I post a reply to a message & click on the botton that does that.......it takes forever (which I think is my computer issue also).....but then after it processes the message it stayes up there with a message that I can't reply 2 times within whatever many seconds the system here requires.

I never double clicked on the reply button so it would think I was trying to send it again......

Has anyone else had a similar problem here or is it possibly my old mouse on my old desk top computer that I have recently had to get up & running again & have had NOTHING but problems with anyway?

Oh yes, & scrolling is next to impossible.....sits there in google chrome & tells me that "page unresponsive". One thought was that the mouse interface might be bad/intermittent or whatever.

Not so bad here, but when writing an email.....I can sometimes type a whole paragraph without the letters I typed coming out on the screen & then all of a sudden they all come tumbling out on the page only to find errors & have to get the cursor back to the error which takes forever.

Think there are a whole bunch of problems going on here....mouse being only one possibility maybe?

I purchased one of those fix it programs that fixes the errors & tells you that it will speed up your computer, but it hasn't even effected it. Sometimes I just get so frustrated I pound the stupid mouse on the table & want to throw it across the room if it wasn't attached on such a short line. (yep....a very old mouse also).

I bought this computer at the same time I bought my laptop....but this computer hasn't been used for years & getting the cobwebs out of it & updated again to where it should be functioning is not easy when I don't know exactly what I am doing & don't have the money to take it to have a professional look at it & clean it up completely which I know would be my wisest thing to do.

[FooZe]

Last time I had questions about a mouse, I found this online:

Mouse Event Test Page

It may shed some light on what your mouse is or isn't saying to your computer.

There are sure to be several layers to a mouse interface: the switches and sensors in the mouse itself; the port that the mouse connects to; the driver software that presents the signals from the mouse port to Windows; Windows and the CPU, of course; and the browser or other software that talks/listens to Windows about what mouse or keyboard input there's been recently. If Chrome seems to be getting strange input from the mouse, it won't usually be obvious which layers the problems are in.

The part about typing a whole paragraph before your text starts appearing onscreen sounds like your processor is busy doing something else. If it happened to me (and wasn't just a once-in-a-while thing) I'd want to investigate just what was running that was keeping the processor so busy.

On some sites I visit (including one where I regularly read and bookmark news stories), there seem to be tons of javascript routines that bring everything else to a halt while the page finishes loading. The page may refuse to scroll in the meantime (so I can't read past the first paragraph) and bookmarking it may take 30 seconds or more. I've learned to get around that by clicking on the "Stop loading" button as soon as I'm fairly sure I have the story itself. If I click too soon, I may get just the headline (if that much); if I wait too long, the page may go blank and refuse to redisplay.

[DocClyde]

Yeah, I started to say it may be you have so much on the old computer that it is making it run slow?

Could you run virus checker or disk cleanup or a spyware program?

That might help. Also, have you (don't mean this stupid, just asking) ever rebooted it--that could help too.