I should have known

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

It figures, the answer to my MSN Messenger problem was sitting right in my inbox, thanks to Steven Vore. In response to your other query, Steven, I used to have Trillian running from behind the firewall but then our pseudo-ISP decided to start blocking IM traffic. I actually thought that perhaps MSN would work by itself when I saw it had an option to use an HTTP proxy, but it still wouldn’t connect, so the heck with it!

Now for the next test of my readers, I’ve got a laptop at work whose pointing device doesn’t left-click. It does the same thing with a mouse connected, so it’s not a hardware issue. They both are capable of moving the pointer, and right-clicking but nothing happens when you left-click. I checked the Compaq support site, Googled it, installed mouse drivers, and nothing. Anyone have any ideas? I’m thinking it’s just a simple setting somewhere, but where?

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • The missing question

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    When I agreed to do that segment with Kevin Devin from In the Trenches, he sent me a list of possible questions, so I would have a pretty good idea of what he was looking for. There were a number of those questions that I wanted to answer, and take advantage of the opportunity to…

  • ActiveWords and what I’d really like

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    So I’ve been using ActiveWords for a few weeks now, and I’m liking the ability to add some shortcuts, and the auto correction of misspellings no matter what application I’m typing in, but it’s missing something. What I’d really like is something that will actually record keystroke or mouse clicks and let you automate certain…

  • Famous last words

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    “Today should be a little bit of a back to normal day” Yeah I should have known better than to say that. I blame the lack of sleep last night for that momentary lack of common sense. I’d forgotten just how new a couple of my fellow employees are and how many things they haven’t…

  • Excuse the mess

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    See Andy’s post here. More details on aspcomments handling of 18 digit blog id’s. I’m going to be messing with the comments for a few, switching the field to text from long integer, you might not want to leave any comments for the moment. 🙂 Update 1: Andy’s permalinks don’t seem to be working, look…

  • Yeah it works

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I was able to finagle my way to a “Well we need to make sure it works so we can send it back” look at my Dell Axim X5, It setup real easy and works really well. I was quite happy with the performance and the simplicity of syncing it with Outlook. Looks like I…

  • Exciting news..

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I have an offer on the table for a small, free Unix hosting account for my child abuse stuff to have a home of it’s own. The person responsible for this offer has chosen to remain anonymous, but suffice it to say that I am deeply appreciative and would give him all the free publicity…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)