OT: This is weird

[TAandy]

I've noticed over the last couple of days...
I have 2 internet shortcuts on my desktop, Google and AnandTech.
For some reason, known only to the god of vodka, after every few hours they refuse to do what they were put there to do!
Ie, double click on them and they laugh in my face (b@stards :| )
They only start behaving if I reboot
And after that they're up to their old tricks again!!??!!
WHY???

 

[Fardringle]

When you click on the shortcuts do they open your browser and not load the pages, or do they not do anything at all?

I've seen some cases where a copy of Internet Explorer doesn't close properly and gets stuck in Windows memory so that even though it appears to be closed, Windows thinks it is still open and tries to open the web page from the shortcut in that existing (but invisible) browser session. The next time it happens, take a look at the Processes tab in the Task Manager to see if there are any listings for IEXPLORE.EXE. If so, kill the process and try to open your shortcut again to see what happens. I imagine the same thing could happen with FireFox but I don't personally use it so I couldn't tell you for sure.


If the shortcuts open a new browser window but don't load the web pages, it may be a case of Windows turning off your network card, or your Internet connection timing out (some DSL connections do this if you don't have a keep-alive setting in the DSL PPPoE software or on your router) and rebooting forces the connection to be re-established.

 

[TAandy]

No, they don't do anything at all!!
All other icons on the desktop seem to work ok

 

[GeoffS]

/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

 

[GeoffS]

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

LOL! Already done that one... OMG it was funny.... that and switching the M and N keys on the keyboard... worked great on a guy who didn't have an M or N in his userid but did in his password! The PC Tech doing his internship at the time wanted to send the keyboard back to IBM because it was obviously defective... lol...

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

LOL! Already done that one... OMG it was funny.... that and switching the M and N keys on the keyboard... worked great on a guy who didn't have an M or N in his userid but did in his password! The PC Tech doing his internship at the time wanted to send the keyboard back to IBM because it was obviously defective... lol...

I'm seeing a different side of you :evil:

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

LOL! Already done that one... OMG it was funny.... that and switching the M and N keys on the keyboard... worked great on a guy who didn't have an M or N in his userid but did in his password! The PC Tech doing his internship at the time wanted to send the keyboard back to IBM because it was obviously defective... lol...

Or change up the 10key, so that it goes like a telephone instead. hehehehee. That really messes people up. And it takes them a while to notice it as well. Or installing a wireless mouse into a spare USB port. Move it randomly from time to time. ROFL. That's fun as well.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

LOL! Already done that one... OMG it was funny.... that and switching the M and N keys on the keyboard... worked great on a guy who didn't have an M or N in his userid but did in his password! The PC Tech doing his internship at the time wanted to send the keyboard back to IBM because it was obviously defective... lol...

Or change up the 10key, so that it goes like a telephone instead. hehehehee. That really messes people up. And it takes them a while to notice it as well. Or installing a wireless mouse into a spare USB port. Move it randomly from time to time. ROFL. That's fun as well.

Oh dear, oh dear
You people really are perverse :Q

I'll have to try that key one, that sounds excellent
Thanks for the tip :beer:

 

[GeoffS]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: GeoffS
/signs back on to Andy's machine and fixes the icons... for now... hee hee hee... /

LOL. You put some icons on the desktop, took a screen capture, set the image as the background, and then removed the icons too?

Oh god, don't give him ideas :laugh:

LOL! Already done that one... OMG it was funny.... that and switching the M and N keys on the keyboard... worked great on a guy who didn't have an M or N in his userid but did in his password! The PC Tech doing his internship at the time wanted to send the keyboard back to IBM because it was obviously defective... lol...

Or change up the 10key, so that it goes like a telephone instead. hehehehee. That really messes people up. And it takes them a while to notice it as well. Or installing a wireless mouse into a spare USB port. Move it randomly from time to time. ROFL. That's fun as well.

Ohhh! I like that mouse idea! Look what you've started Andy! lol...

 

[TAandy]

Look what I've started??????????????????????????

 

[Insidious]

We scheduled my supervisor's computer to do a complete HD scan (McAfee) every hour.

He tried to fix his "slow" computer for 4 days (I think he downloaded every spyware and virus scanner ever published) before he put in the trouble call to our System admins.

(we fixed it before the tech. got to him)

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

TAandy started... We'll finish.
Manually change the homepage of the browser to a page with a script that shuts down as part of the onLoad parameter. That's interesting too. "My internet is broken". hehehe

 

[Dalephi]

Here I am having a real boring night at work. That is until I read your posts. You all have some really good ideas. I might have to try a few.

Have a great night.

Dale

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
TAandy started... We'll finish.
Manually change the homepage of the browser to a page with a script that shuts down as part of the onLoad parameter. That's interesting too. "My internet is broken". hehehe

Mmm... tasty.

Might just have to try it out on a few people...

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

If you really want to be mean, you could change the policy for passwords, so that they have to be changed every day.