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To: Gottfried who wrote (76770)	9/14/2011 11:20:04 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

I just solved an IE issue that was bugging me for a while, scroll freezes. It turns out the culprit WAS NOT a plugin. It was leaving a tab with drudgereport.com open. I also recently solved a very weird driver issue. My 4 year old Toshiba laptop still suits me needs fine. It triple boots XP, Vista and Win 7. It did not come with an HDMI port, at the time I didn't think that it mattered. When I wanted to plug my laptop into my flat screen TV 6 months ago using a VGA cable didn't cut it so I got a USB>DVI>HDMI converter on EBAY, it's the size of a smart phone. The auction included a link to the software and the newest version worked fine. In late April the converter fell and afterwards my laptop screen and TV would both go blank 5 seconds after plugging in the USB cable from the converter. Before replacing the converter I tried it with Vista and XP and oddly enough it worked with both. I went back to Win 7 and tried reinstalling the software with no luck, then deleting every reference to the software in the registry, rebooting and reinstalling with no luck. Finally I tried the 2nd to newest version of the software and it worked! Why the newest version worked for 8 weeks then I guess coincidentally stopped working when the converter fell is a total mystery to me.