Fast- disappearing menus

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2 total messages Started by Andy Mabbett Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:00

#548

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:00

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I have a curious problem on my other machine, running Win 95. When I
click on a menu, by the time I've scrolled down to the item I want, it
has disappeared again. This is especially noticeable when I try to use
second- and third- level menus. I've tried changing the mouse, but that
has made no difference; in fact, the same happens if I use [Alt] and
keyboard shortcuts to reach the same menu items. It's happening in most
if not all applications, too. Nothing else happens, so it's not that
menu items are being spuriously "clicked".

I do seem to recall this happening once before, and been advised to
change a setting for the menu scroll rate, or some such, but I really
can't remember how, or where.

It's making some functions and applications almost completely unusable. 

I hate computers :-(
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Re: Fast- disappearing menus

#546

Author: Raj Rijhwani
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00

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In article <FpX5LPAGFJm4EwaV@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>
           andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk "Andy Mabbett" writes:

> I have a curious problem on my other machine, running Win 95. When I
> click on a menu, by the time I've scrolled down to the item I want, it
> has disappeared again. This is especially noticeable when I try to use
> second- and third- level menus. I've tried changing the mouse, but that
> has made no difference; in fact, the same happens if I use [Alt] and
> keyboard shortcuts to reach the same menu items. It's happening in most
> if not all applications, too. Nothing else happens, so it's not that
> menu items are being spuriously "clicked".

Sounds like you have a regularly ticking process that steals the focus.

I have the same problem when using a certain brand of data transfer 
software at work.  Every time it pops up a status box (which with 
certain transfers is several times a second), it steals focus for 
a moment which collapses any active menus.
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