Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:22 PM Monday 7/11/2005, Gary Denton wrote: On 7/11/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I. B. M., U. B. M., We All B. M. For I. B. M. Maru > > > -- Ronn! :) Harlie is a lot older than One now - 33 years since copyright. The service person from IBM was reportedly less tha

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Gary Denton
On 7/11/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I. B. M., U. B. M., We All B. M. For I. B. M. Maru > > > -- Ronn! :) Harlie is a lot older than One now - 33 years since copyright. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspo

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:26 PM Monday 7/11/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Matt Grimaldi wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell machines, at least, the system shuts down; it's not a hard kill. Which is annoying on

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:13 PM Monday 7/11/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Matt Grimaldi wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell machines, at least, the system shuts down; it's not a hard kill. Which is annoying on those [rare] occasions when you _need_ a hard

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:36 PM Monday 7/11/2005, Matt Grimaldi wrote: Usually for soft-reset power switches, holding it down for over 5 sec. will do a hard-kill. I _think_ I've tried that on this box (Dell Dimension 3000 series) and it didn't work, but I'll keep it in mind for the next time it is needed. (An

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Dave Land wrote: A lot of PCs also have a "hard reset" button somewhere on the front panel. It's usually a little thing, smaller than a pencil eraser (and maybe small enough to require a pen tip or some other pointy object to activate), and is sometimes labeled "

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Matt Grimaldi wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell machines, at least, the system shuts down; it's not a hard kill. Which is annoying on those [rare] occasions when you _need_ a hard ki

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Julia Thompson
Matt Grimaldi wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell machines, at least, the system shuts down; it's not a hard kill. Which is annoying on those [rare] occasions when you _need_ a hard kill. Pull The Plug Maru Usually for soft-r

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: >>> >>>What about alt+f4? >> >> Or just hitting the power switch? >> On Dell machines, at least, the >> system shuts down; it's not a hard >> kill. > Which is annoying on those [rare] > occasions when you _need_ a hard > kill. > > > Pull The Plug Maru Usually for soft-re

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Max Battcher
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I inquired about this on more than one list in hopes of finding someone who had a solution. On another list, I learned that the problem of toggling Sticky Keys when not desired by pressing the "Shift" key is really annoying to game programmers, particularly because some

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Max Battcher
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Max Battcher wrote: Win+U has been one of my big annoyances because it is too close to Win, pause, U which is the shortest way to the shutdown menu. What about alt+f4? Not if you have applications (such as stalled applications or when yo

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:40 PM Sunday 7/10/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Jul 10, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to PERMANENTLY DISABLE "Sticky Keys" in Win XP? Format & Reinstall Sir, Please be advised that the above instructions are in error. F

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:22 AM Monday 7/11/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Max Battcher wrote: Win+U has been one of my big annoyances because it is too close to Win, pause, U which is the shortest way to the shutdown menu. What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:01 PM Sunday 7/10/2005, Max Battcher wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I fear it may be something that no matter what options you select, Windows resets them to what it wants ("enabled" by default in this case) every time you restart the machine. The Accessibility features are purpousely h

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Max Battcher wrote: Win+U has been one of my big annoyances because it is too close to Win, pause, U which is the shortest way to the shutdown menu. What about alt+f4? Or just hitting the power switch? On Dell machines, at least, the system shuts down; it's not a

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Max Battcher
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I fear it may be something that no matter what options you select, Windows resets them to what it wants ("enabled" by default in this case) every time you restart the machine. The Accessibility features are purpousely hard to turn off because they are "accessibility" i

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:33 PM Sunday 7/10/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to PERMANENTLY DISABLE "Sticky Keys" in Win XP? Every now and then it will get turned on by accident and the only way I have found to turn it off is to reboot (I've tried to select "Cance

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to PERMANENTLY DISABLE "Sticky Keys" in Win XP? Every now and then it will get turned on by accident and the only way I have found to turn it off is to reboot (I've tried to select "Cancel" when the box comes up to tell me it's been activat

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 10, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to PERMANENTLY DISABLE "Sticky Keys" in Win XP? Format & Reinstall Sir, Please be advised that the above instructions are in error. Format & Install pretty much any other operati

Re: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to PERMANENTLY DISABLE "Sticky Keys" in Win > XP? > Format & Reinstall Alberto Monteiro quoting www.microsith.com :-) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: There's a reason it's called a cursor

2005-07-10 Thread Nick Lidster
Got to settings for it and turn off the short cut key... nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:14 AM To: Brin-L Subject: There's a reason it's called a cursor Can anyone PLEASE tell me h