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Lately my work PC has been acting up. Not in major ways, thank Gates, but in annoying small ways. For instance, when I'm working at the front desk, I use RDP to log into my main machine so that I have access to all my bookmarks and such. Recently, this has begun to fail intermittently for reasons that the IT staff simply can't diagnose. It seems to be related to the tendency of my screen to go black after the machine has been idle and not come back up even when the mouse is moved or the keys tapped.

Since I always lock my machine when I'm away from my desk for any length of time, these blackouts used to be what annoyed me the most. But since I've discovered that I can easily log in again, I've begun to see them as an additional security measure. All you have to do is press CTR-ALT-DEL to bring up the login screen (although visually there's no change) and mouse the cursor down to the point where it changes from an arrow to an I-beam. Now you've found the login field and can entre your password normally--if you're me. If you're not me, good luck figuring out how to switch users.

Now the only bug that really bothers me (besides the remote failures) is this weird tendency toward enlargement: once in a while, I log in and everything is magnified to several times the size, meaning there's barely room for any text in a given programme window. If I log out and log back in again, it goes away, but I have to manually resize all the window back to the proportions I had before.

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[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Failing video card, maybe?