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Post #199,421
by Andrew Grygus
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3/18/05 2:57:50 PM
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New Well, this is getting damned annoying . .
Every XP notebook brought in for parasite removal recently has had this feature where the item gets launched if the mouse pointer hovers over it for 3 seconds. One machine even became reinfected because of that.

Where does one turn this feature off?
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Post #199,423
by Yendor
3/18/05 3:04:31 PM
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New Sounds like Active Desktop...
...is trying to "preview" the file. Turn it off?
-YendorMike

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Post #199,428
by bepatient
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3/18/05 3:43:10 PM
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New Thats a feature
active content on web pages.

Great, ain't it?
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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Post #199,440
by folkert
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3/18/05 4:41:16 PM
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New Accessability functions... Control Panel.
It is sticky mouse buttons. Or auto-click functions when focus... something along those lines.

I had a hosed machine this morn that way.

Imaged it and was clean.
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     Well, this is getting damned annoying . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - March 18, 2005, 02:57:50 PM EST
         Sounds like Active Desktop... - (Yendor) - (1) - March 18, 2005, 03:04:31 PM EST
             Thats a feature - (bepatient) - March 18, 2005, 03:43:10 PM EST
         Accessability functions... Control Panel. - (folkert) - March 18, 2005, 04:41:16 PM EST

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