Just reporting a curiosity. Have to click extra times on the taskbar to start Free Alarm Clock.
Haven't tested on win11 yet, but posting here anyhow (because I know the win11 people are at the forefront of technology.)
I've noticed this 5 or 10 times on win10. I've been more and more
careful of where I put the cursor and how I click, and unlike any other program, this one doesn't start the first time I double-click on its
button in the task bar.
Another interesting thing is, To waken this Acer win10 laptop from
sleep, I usually press the space bar on the external keyboard, and I
have to wait a second or two and press it twice to wake up, and if Free
Alarm Clock has focus when it went to sleep, it will still have focus
and pressing the space bar turns off the alarm. I learned that the hard
way late one morning.
Mow that I know it's idiosyncrasies, Free Alarm Clock is really great.
And it's free.
On Sat, 4/26/2025 6:04 PM, micky wrote:
Just reporting a curiosity. Have to click extra times on the taskbar to
start Free Alarm Clock.
Haven't tested on win11 yet, but posting here anyhow (because I know the
win11 people are at the forefront of technology.)
I've noticed this 5 or 10 times on win10. I've been more and more
careful of where I put the cursor and how I click, and unlike any other
program, this one doesn't start the first time I double-click on its
button in the task bar.
Another interesting thing is, To waken this Acer win10 laptop from
sleep, I usually press the space bar on the external keyboard, and I
have to wait a second or two and press it twice to wake up, and if Free
Alarm Clock has focus when it went to sleep, it will still have focus
and pressing the space bar turns off the alarm. I learned that the hard
way late one morning.
Mow that I know it's idiosyncrasies, Free Alarm Clock is really great.
And it's free.
Don't the pinned Taskbar items start with one-click ?
Versus the double click a desktop program icon takes ?
And there is likely a setting that interferes with
a thing like that. But that's what mine uses right now.
It's also possible but unlikely, that the process listening
for clicks, is suspended, at the time you are trying to use it.
I had a pretty funny one today, on W11 on the Test Machine.
I had a desktop come up. There was no mouse pointer. The
keyboard worked. I could do an alt-F4 and get something to
happen. Then I remembered I'd reset the keyboard and mouse,
by pulling out the cables from the new bus-powered hub (used
as an extension cord). And the USB for the mouse was in
the hole, but it wasn't seated. And plugging it in properly,
I got a mouse pointer. Such a dumb ass.
Paul
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:10:45 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 4/26/2025 6:04 PM, micky wrote:
Just reporting a curiosity. Have to click extra times on the taskbar to >> start Free Alarm Clock.
Haven't tested on win11 yet, but posting here anyhow (because I know the >> win11 people are at the forefront of technology.)
I've noticed this 5 or 10 times on win10. I've been more and more
careful of where I put the cursor and how I click, and unlike any other
program, this one doesn't start the first time I double-click on its
button in the task bar.
Another interesting thing is, To waken this Acer win10 laptop from
sleep, I usually press the space bar on the external keyboard, and I
have to wait a second or two and press it twice to wake up, and if Free
Alarm Clock has focus when it went to sleep, it will still have focus
and pressing the space bar turns off the alarm. I learned that the hard >> way late one morning.
Mow that I know it's idiosyncrasies, Free Alarm Clock is really great.
And it's free.
Don't the pinned Taskbar items start with one-click ?
I'll have to get back to you on this. Free Alarm Clock is pinned there
too, and that's where I'm clicking, so maybe you're suggesting that
double clicking starts it and stops it? But I t hought I clicked on
it the same as the other commonly used, pinned icons. I willl pay more attention and I plan to post back.
Versus the double click a desktop program icon takes ?
No desktop icons involved.
And there is likely a setting that interferes with
a thing like that. But that's what mine uses right now.
It's also possible but unlikely, that the process listening
for clicks, is suspended, at the time you are trying to use it.
I had a pretty funny one today, on W11 on the Test Machine.
I had a desktop come up. There was no mouse pointer. The
keyboard worked. I could do an alt-F4 and get something to
happen. Then I remembered I'd reset the keyboard and mouse,
by pulling out the cables from the new bus-powered hub (used
as an extension cord). And the USB for the mouse was in
the hole, but it wasn't seated. And plugging it in properly,
I got a mouse pointer. Such a dumb ass.
Paul
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:05:25 -0400
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:10:45 -0400, Paul
<nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 4/26/2025 6:04 PM, micky wrote:
Just reporting a curiosity. Have to click extra times on the taskbar to >> >> start Free Alarm Clock.
Haven't tested on win11 yet, but posting here anyhow (because I know the >> >> win11 people are at the forefront of technology.)
I've noticed this 5 or 10 times on win10. I've been more and more
careful of where I put the cursor and how I click, and unlike any other >> >> program, this one doesn't start the first time I double-click on its
button in the task bar.
Another interesting thing is, To waken this Acer win10 laptop from
sleep, I usually press the space bar on the external keyboard, and I
I always rattle a shift key (or Alt or WinD if nothing happens) to wake up
a computer - as you've noticed, the space bar sometimes has an action (not >least if in overwrite mode on an important piece of text).
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