somewhat of a weird computer problem

[Lukie]

Ok, I've never seen this before and it's not crippling but it's really annoying. There's 2 things that happened at the same time.

1. All my desktop icons were deleted. I also cannot add anymore. For example, if I right click and try to add a new folder, nothing happens. Ditto for anything else.

2. My mouse doesn't show the drag. It will still drag windows and such normally, but if you try to "make a box", nothing will show. I went into mouse settings and didn't see anyway to change this.

Anyway, I'm not really sure what happened because it's been a while (a couple weeks). This is on my desktop and I've been using my laptop a lot more lately. Basically I was clicking on something and I clicked somewhere I wasn't supposed to and the computer got stumbled up a bit and ever since then, the situation hasn't changed.

I've rebooted several times since so that's not it.

Any thoughts or ideas? I'd appreciate it a ton.

[Lukie]

Also, if it's relevant, I have 3 monitors but the multi-monitorism (word?) is working fine. There aren't any other problems with my computer that I know of...

[will641]

just take it to a computer store to fix it. they are pretty cheap. cost me $40 to deal with reinstalling windows (cause it was giving me unreal shit).

[Lukie]

just take it to a computer store to fix it. they are pretty cheap. cost me $40 to deal with reinstalling windows (cause it was giving me unreal shit).

I'd like to keep this as a last resort...

[Warpe]

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

[mrhappy333]

CTRL ALT F4 may restore your items

[bode]

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

this is definitely it. i did this on accident a few months ago. its also the cause of the mouse dragging issue.

[martindcx1e]

i've also heard that if active desktop is enabled the icons can disappear if you select to "show web content"

[Lukie]

You might've just hidden them by accident.

Right-click on the desktop and open the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.


In the sub-menu, click "Show Desktop Icons" (should have a checkmark beside it if they're showing}.

this is definitely it. i did this on accident a few months ago. its also the cause of the mouse dragging issue.

lol yes, this was definitely it.

warpe i owe you a beer, and possibly a steak dinner or something.

[Lukie]

funny related story:

so when i play poker or just in general when i'm bored on my computer, i tend to swiggle my mouse around and click on lots of stuff. so anyway once in a while when i'd play poker, i'd "magically" find myself across the table where all the PAHUD stats were all screwed up. i was sure that i found a glitch in pokerstars and i tried my hardest to try to recreate it although I never could. it would happen maybe once every few days or so.

eventually i learned that i was just right clicking an open seat and then coincidentally hitting the 'sit here' option but my mouse speed is so absurdly fast that i never caught onto this.

[Warpe]

yw Lukie. computers are perfectly designed to make us look stupid.

I noticed I move my mouse pointer around randomly for no apparent reason when I'm playing. If I leave my hand on the mouse, I also take action too fast most of the time so when I tank it's a huge timing tell to anyone paying attention, so now I'm trying to take my hand off the mouse between actions or count steamboats in my head before I click.

kinda related finding I found interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0414145705.htm

[Lukie]

yw Lukie. computers are perfectly designed to make us look stupid.

I noticed I move my mouse pointer around randomly for no apparent reason when I'm playing. If I leave my hand on the mouse, I also take action too fast most of the time so when I tank it's a huge timing tell to anyone paying attention, so now I'm trying to take my hand off the mouse between actions or count steamboats in my head before I click.

kinda related finding I found interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0414145705.htm

I agree with what you're saying about timing tells. My general rule of thumb is that people make trivially easy decisions quickly, almost as a reaction. While it's fine when you're folding J3o pre, post-flop it just makes you easier to play against and easier to read. Even if I plan to just c/f to a c-bet OOP with 2 undercards, it's better to just wait a couple seconds to make them think you might c/r or whatever, and when you do have a set, it won't look so strange when it takes you 10 seconds to figure out exactly what you want to bump it up to. That's just one example obviously.

insta-acting post flop is almost always bad.

cool article btw, i think that kind of stuff is interesting.

[Jack Sawyer]

dude, format as a precaution


you know about the horror stories that have been happenin around

dude, format as a precaution


you know about the horror stories that have been happenin around

Lol, there's taking necessary precautions, but formatting because you accidentally hid desktop icons is going a bit too far in my opinion :P

[Jack Sawyer]