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Can my Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse pick up radio interference static?

Category: Windows PC Help

I have a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer Optical Mouse 2.0, Model # 1007,1009. I get some kind of radio interference that causes the mouse cursor to move very slowly and reacts very slowly to mouse clicks. At exactly the same time I get static in the computer speakers and visible static on the T.V., which is always on channel 3 for Tivo viewing. The T.V. static is in dotted lines across the screen, in groups of 8 or 10 and rising on the screen. The mouse instruction manual says that the optical mouse is operating on 27.145MHz. Is there a way to trace the interference or filter it out on both the mouse and the T.V.? This all started happening about 2 weeks ago.

Question answered on April 6, 2011 at 07:29 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Review: Pogoplug Remote Disk Access System

The idea of being able to access all my files and data from anywhere on the Internet is darn tempting. Imagine having a multi-terrabyte file server that only you - and people you invite - can share, and imagine it's fast, easy to set up, and surprisingly inexpensive. Enter the oddly-named Pogoplug. For under $100 (at Buy.com) it does a great job of creating your own personal Internet file server.

pogoplug product photo

CloudEngines has a pleasantly modern sensibility and the documentation that they included with the review unit had a "popcorn test": betting that you could configure it and get going faster than you could microwave a bag of popcorn. Confident, but they would have lost the bet with me...

Question answered on July 22, 2010 at 08:56 AM :: Comments to date: 2

CrossOver: A Must-Try Windows Tool for Mac Users

This is a guest article, written by Tim Beyers.

Rarely do I need access to Windows programs. For the times when I do, I've switched from a Parallels virtual machine running XP to CodeWeavers' CrossOver for Mac, a virtual environment that simulates the Win32 API, one program at a time.

What CrossOver for Mac is

CrossOver is built on the open source Wine project, which proposes to re-implement the Windows architecture for Unix. Thus, systems that draw from a Unix kernel -- Mac OS X and Linux, notably -- can use Wine to run Windows programs as if they were native to the underlying architecture.

Question answered on June 5, 2009 at 08:39 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Why can't my computer find blinkw32.dll / binkw32.dll?

Category: Windows PC Help

What is blinkw32.dl? I am having problems with my PC complaining that it can't find blinkw32.dll (binkw32.dll?) when I try to start up a program.

Question answered on April 16, 2007 at 02:40 PM :: Comments to date: 10

Convert WMA from Windows Media Player into MP3 files?

I'm definitely going crazy here. I have a ton of CDs that I've ripped with Windows Media Player 10, but they're all apparently in WMA format, not the MP3 format that my new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) needs for me to listen to them. I checked and there's no "save as" capability in WMP, so how the heck do I fix this problem?

Question answered on January 3, 2006 at 10:30 PM :: Comments to date: 448
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