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September 17

Nuisance in windows

I have been forced to use Windows 10 after buying an HP Pavilion, but I had this problem also in Windows 7. It concerns the IE browser (Microsoft Edge?). Almost every time I open it and begin to read news a strange geometric figure appears It consists of two black triangle one pointing up, the other down with a dot between them. Sometimes they are encircled with a ring. After that the text begins to float up and won and it is hard to control it and the whole thing forces me often to close the browser. I cannot find a place in Control Panel to get rid of this "innovation." How to remove it? Thanks, - --AboutFace 22 (talk) 18:30, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Did you by any chance press the mouse wheel ? This puts the mouse into a mode where it scrolls the screen based on how you move the mouse relative the the position of the symbol. To turn it off, just press the mouse wheel again. Not sure how to disable it permanently, but something in the mouse settings might do that. Of course, now that you know how to turn it off, it may not be such a problem anymore. I sometimes find it useful. For example, you can set it to scroll the text window slowly enough that you can read the text as it scrolls. StuRat (talk) 18:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Stu. You are always on top of the game :-) --AboutFace 22 (talk) 22:27, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]