Burning the midnight oil on a Sunday night.....

[poltr1]

Tonight I had the wild idea of trying to fix my laptop's keyboard. There is a diagonal "column" of keys -- the 8ik, keys -- that weren't working. As a cheap workaround, I've been using an external keyboard. I bought a replacement keyboard on Ebay, but as it turns out, I didn't need it. So this evening, I unscrewed the keyboard, disconnected it, reconnected it, and screwed it back in. All the keys are working now. But my little eraserhead mouse is no longer working. I must not have put in the cable properly. Oh well -- I hardly use it. If I really want to use it, I can probably pay a tech to fix it.

Meanwhile, it appears that Ad-Aware has decided by itself to do a scan, slowing down and hijacking my system. And it's doing it in total stealth mode; there are no indicators that it's running (except when I go into Task Manager). Grr argh!

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

You could always kill the Ad-Aware process, if it's a problem.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I've already done so. But it keeps starting up again when I reboot. I checked Scheduled Tasks and there are no tasks for Ad-Aware. I can't even open up Ad-Aware to check the settings unless I kill the process, because it thinks I'm already running it and won't allow two instances to run concurrently.

If my software is going to run in the background, at least let me know it's running, preferably via an icon in the tray.

[poltr1]

Oops. That was me from work and I forgot to log in.

[dragon-pet.livejournal.com]

Change the settings? It only does that if you have it set to.