Stan in Oly, WA
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I have a Dell computer, using Windows 7 Home Edition operating system, Internet Explorer browser, and MSN.com as my home page. It has been running increasingly poorly for a long time. Some of the problems are specific issues that I understand but haven't taken the time to fix yet. For example, the video display card is failing, and updating the display driver has not corrected the problem---I just have to put in a new card. But there are two very annoying problems which may or may not be due to problems with the hardware or software. One is that the screen often freezes and I get a message informing me that Internet Explorer has stopped running. Sometimes it starts running again without me having to do anything, but sometimes I have to close it and restart it. The other annoying problem is that images on the screen move up and down when I'm looking at them. This means that when I click on a particular item onscreen, the screen often moves at the same time so that I am taken to a place I didn't choose. An example of this is that the MSN home page features a section with two pictures at a time of about a dozen news items that you can scroll through using forward and back arrows on the sides of the pictures. When I'm not interested in an item and choose to move on, the picture often moves up or down so that my cursor clicks on the item---which opens it---instead of on the arrow to move on. This situation is much worse on any of the ad infested click-bait screens which, admittedly, I should probably avoid altogether, anyway. In that situation, it seems much more intentional because that provider wants me to spend more time on the page, and to click on advertisers' links, whether I mean to or not. What can you tell me about these issues?
Stan
Stan