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Posted by BillW50 on January 29, 2008, 8:09 am
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kplumm typed on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:40:03 -0800 (PST):
> It was a bit rash of me, possibly, but I corrected a wrongly-fitting
> keyboard in my laptop without looking up any info about anti-static
> measures. While the bonnet was up, so to speak, I had a look to see
> how easy it would have been to fit my own RAM, having just paid for
> that job. apart from my CD drive recently dying - almost certainly
> mechanical as I tried all that DMA stuff - the computer usually works
> fine, but sometimes the keyboard goes a bit haywire, as if someone is
> pressing the Home key while I'm typing. Is this related ot my static
> blunder? What can be done to correct this? What should I have done
> as an anti-static measure?
>
> I have considered that this keyboard problerm is a virus, but it seems
> a very petty symptom, even going by virus-writers' mentality. Thanks
> for any feedback. you may ignore the question below, but it is one I
> have posted elsewhere about a different problem.
Yes static electricity could probably cause this sort of damage. In
fact, static electricity does seem to damage keyboards support chips and
mice a lot.
> "I have had my laptop 3 years without having any second user account
> on it. I don't know if there is a connection, but since adding a 2nd
> i.d. I get a box sometimes - but not always - saying something like
> 'Winio failed to load. Please reinstall' I see I have some files in
> my o/s called winio but also there is something downloadable on the
> internet of this name. What is happening? The only other thing
> different on my computer is some mobile phone software called
> Wellphone, which enables me ot type SMS from my laptop, sending it
> through the phone, and to save SIM information. The drivers for my
> phone and its other software are installed. But I had Wellphone
> installed for a week before getting this winio box, and before setting
> up the 2nd user account.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback."
WINio is part of VirtualBasic 3.0 I think. Just Google WINio and you can
find places to download it.
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Bill
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