Weird Shit Your Computer Does.

[EHKOS]

It's no surprise my computer has bugs, since I'm running Vista (not my fault). But I have the "align to grid" for my desktop icons ticked off, and it still does it. I also ticked it on, and it does the same thing. Also, one time my entire directory for Fallout NV just up and disappeared. It wasn't even in the recycle bin, it was just gone.

 

[snave]

Mine keeps leaking memory. Not system memory, oh no no, actual physical hard drive space. I know what the cause is too: Vista. Bloody Vista.

See, Apple nabbed a lot of users with their "Time Machine" in Mac OS, so Microsoft's solution was to bundle "Shadow Copy" in Vista. In theory, it works. In practice, it fails horribly and you cannot fully disable it (the disable option only shapes its behavior, the feature still soldiers the duck on). They've just taken the registry auto-backup code from Windows XP and changed it around to back up everything but the registry. Yeah, there's the clincher. Registry backups don't work at all the moment you start turning off parts of the Shadow Copy feature.

Now, many users won't notice this, as its a slow, gradual decay over years. But if you have a laptop with a single, small harddrive, that was mistakenly labelled Vista Ready (Google Top 10 Worst Microsoft Innovations if you want to know more about that beast) when it really probably shouldn't have been... well, you end up with my machine. It's also a Sony so the battery has practically set my groin on fire writing this. Fun.

 

[BeerTent]

My computer automatically opens a bunch of programs upon turning the computer. Also, my monitor takes about 5 to 10 minutes to "warm up" before it eventually, properly turns on.

If you press start and then type msconfig you can see and control startup programs should watch out what you turn off though

I recommend using Ccleaner [http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download] for this, as it searches through the registry. I install Ccleaner on all of my customer's PC's. I don't care if they want it or not.

Some programs that boot like to try and hide themselves from MSConfig. But you cannot hide in the registry... >.>

My computer has a habit of auto alt-tabbing me whenever I have a full-screen application open. Always. Every 10-15 minutes... Reaaaally pisses me off when playing LoL or Mount and Blade.

I also invite you to take a look at what's starting up on boot. There's something on your computer that's "stealing focus" to show you something. It may not actually show you anything, or it may be actually hiding while it does something and Windows thinks "Well, shit. This is doing something, the user's gotta see!" See what's running on your computer and stop it. Ccleaner may be a good start, but it also may not be the solution.

As for weird things my computer does...? Yeah, I got nothing. My laptop overheats at times, but I know why, and I know that I can no longer stop it without tearing it all apart. My desktop works as intended, and if there's anything I don't like, I change it.

[Edited this into my post...]

Shadow copies always existed. Vista just had an easy to use interface to access them. That's why the FBI knows what you did last night. On ALL of your computers!

Also, every OS had that small gradual Decay over the years as you uninstall, re-install, update, leave Temp files laying about. Which is why you format bi-annually. But I'll agree that the "Vista ready" bullshit got out of hand, and that manufacturers needed to be shot.

 

[thejackyl]

My computer has a REALLY slow startup some days.

It will do the Windows 7 startup and than black screen for 10-15 seconds, my background popup with no taskbar or icons, and in another 15 seconds that pops up. Other than that, nothing else. No big deal since I usually start my computer, go and eat breakfast and come back and do whatever.

My laptop on the other hand does something really weird. Every time I start it up it will not connect to the router/modem, until I open the settings and enter in the router name/password. It won't even find it automatically when it searches for available access points.

 

[lRookiel]

I have an absolute beast of a computer but it won't start unless I hit it down the side whenever I turn it on! XD

 

[Sam Warrior]

Got a gaming laptop and every 6 months or so for no fault of my own it will commit suicide and require a wipe and reinstall of everything. This time the display driver decided to kill windows or at least thats what I gathered from the garbled error message that it actually managed to display.

 

[Alcamonic]

No problem now days.

But before...

"Windows Vista ain't too bad, I will wait with installing Windows 7."
That was until Vista decided it was a genius idea to MAKE SHADOW COPIES of windows files, or whatever it was. Causing me to get an extra 50-150 gigabytes of trash that I had to remove daily.

These would not stop either, even after I tried at least a dozen different solutions.

In furious rage, I installed Windows 7 as soon as my new disc reader arrived. And was pleased.

 

[Scarim Coral]

These days, whenever I plug in my portable harddrive into my pc on the same day that I do a virus scan (AVG). It goes into a black screen of death meaning an error came up. Also what is the point that it make an error report when it's using an software that I have to download online?
Now I only say the virus scanning day as any other day, it work fine. Before you asked, there is no virus or deathly threat in my pc other than tracking cookies. Also from what I've look up, apprently this is somewhat normal.

 

[Stilkon]

Sometimes when I plug my headphones in, my computer plays audio through both the speaker and the headphones. Unplugging it and replugging it a couple of times usually solves the problem, but if I don't listen to anything for a while, I hear something like a static shock through the headphones, and it'll start playing out loud again. I'm pretty sure this is just a defective part or something like that, but it would be nice to get it fixed.

 

[Tsekatsu]

Its only started doing this recently, but at random times when my PC loads the desktop the whole computer will lockup and I will have to do a hard shutdown, it starts to get really irritating after a while, then everything will be fine after I restart it.

if I put the slightest weight on my headphone input on the front of my PC, the PC will lose my headphones and automatically connect to my speakers, so I have to re-plug in my headphones.

another random problem that I have is my LED lights on the front of my PC work only when they want to, some days they work, some days they don't, and some days they flicker on and off.

also when I play League of Legends with SLI enabled, the screen goes black randomly for several seconds and will then show back up, usually by that time I'm already dead, it doesn't happen again until the next match where my PC just locks up and I have to restart it.

AND before all that I used to have a sound card that would cause my computer to BSOD randomly when playing games. so I took it out and hurled it across the room. I think my computer hates me.

 

[Grimh]

Nothing with mine, but my brother used to get voices talking in what sounded like Russian in his speakers from time to time.

 

[dogenzakaminion]

My desktop shuts itself off whenever I unplug the HDVI cable. Rarely an issue, but weird nonetheless. My netbook wont ever go into sleep mode. Whenever i try, it gets hung up on the "Windows is entering sleep mode" screen and i have to shut off manually.

 

[lacktheknack]

My computer automatically opens a bunch of programs upon turning the computer. Also, my monitor takes about 5 to 10 minutes to "warm up" before it eventually, properly turns on.

You might want to run AVGFree, Malware Bytes and CCleaner five or six times.

OT: This laptop won't break. I've dropped this thing, punched it, stepped on it, dropped it in muddy snow, sat on it, and accidentally tossed it across the room. It doesn't diiiiie!

My desktop is too normal to mention.

 

[lacktheknack]

Nothing with mine, but my brother used to get voices talking in what sounded like Russian in his speakers from time to time.

Were they wireless? My wireless headphones had a "alert" and "rest" state, and sometimes when they entered a "rest" state, they would pick up two dudes yelling in what sounds like Arabic. Scared the crap out of me.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Sometimes when I'm typing my language randomly changes to Japanese, even though I uninstalled that program a while ago. Of course it never does it when I want to show someone it.

 

[EHKOS]

Sometimes when I plug my headphones in, my computer plays audio through both the speaker and the headphones. Unplugging it and replugging it a couple of times usually solves the problem, but if I don't listen to anything for a while, I hear something like a static shock through the headphones, and it'll start playing out loud again. I'm pretty sure this is just a defective part or something like that, but it would be nice to get it fixed.

This happens to me too! And sometimes when I plug in my microphone, the speakers just don't work. I think it's a motherboard problem, because when I plug in a USB it has a 50/50 chance of making my mouse not work

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

My SSD needed a firmware update it seemed so I did it but it kept having problems related to it. Tried everything. Finally out of desperation I installed the firmware again and it worked -.- computers can be so odd...

 

[TheEvilCheese]

uuh... none that I can think of?
Which is nice, as it's only two months old =/

My previous laptop on the other hand, was funny. It somehow ate the bootloader no matter what I did and I had to boot from a GRUB2 disc to get into windows. Good apart from that.