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The ‘permanent pointer cursor’  appears in the box just to the right of the Shortcuts.

After playing with the powercfg options a bit – all of them seem to indicate that ‘nothing is wrong’.

What I am now seeing at the top of the screen about 3/8 distance from the left side is a representation of my ‘arrow cursor’ that is visible as a constant image and cannot be moved or changed by the cursor that the mouse controls.  The mouse controlled cursor tends to ‘blink’ and is hard to control accurately.

I\’m Not A Robot wrote:

Did you use the ‘requests’ parameter, and does it report anything that may be keeping your monitor powered on after ‘DISPLAY:’?

Everything that /requests displays is ‘NONE’  including Display

Well – I got the powercfg to work – that being said, What am I looking for?

I\’m Not A Robot wrote:

Oops, left this part other information out: To see the other options for the powercfg command you can type powercfg /? (powercfg forward slash questionmark).

Tried your suggestions – No Joy.  Attached is what I got using PowerShell as Administrator

 

Been using a Radio Shack wireless USB mouse.  Pulled the ‘receiver’ out of the USB port.  Still not turning off.  Am rebooting with the mouse receiver out of the machine and will see what happens.

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Situation cleared itself.  Cause unknown.

At least now I know that am not the only one that is having the issue – from time to time.

bbearren wrote:

WSmmi16 wrote:

My real question is why the object of the attempt is failing, repeatedly. Rebooting the machine gets it cooperating properly – for a while, and then it goes on the fritz again.

Have you tried rebooting the router instead?

Because of Verizon issues, the router is rebooted much too frequently.

Paul T wrote:

It may be a DNS issue.
When you get the error, try this command in a Command Prompt window: ping chuckw10
If the command fails, you have a DNS issue, if not, try opening the file again.

cheers, Paul

the ping attempt fails.

My real question is why the object of the attempt is failing, repeatedly.  Rebooting the machine gets it cooperating properly – for a while, and then it goes on the fritz again.

I share your distrust of ‘The Cloud’.  For a variety of reasons internet access to ‘The Cloud’ may be disrupted and you are then cut off from your data.

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OscarCP

There is no marking on the unit to identify manufacturer or model number.

Think I spent about $40 or $50 for it in about September 2021 and the unit was delivered in USPS sometime during January or February – it was in the mail that my neighbor collected for me as I was snowbirding in Florida during that period of time.

 

After the long form formatting of the drive – I started writing data to it again AFTER running the Error Check routine and getting the report that there were no errors.

After writing several hundred MB of data I started getting Errors – something about Semaphore not working

As of right now I will have to treat the SSD as a piece of junk.

The full formatting completed in approximately 45 hours.  Yes it is connected via USB2.

Task Manager showed the disk operating at a consistent 99% and showing a disk transfer rate of approximately 4 MB/second.

When I first got the drive I was writing data to it to back up data that was stored on another external drive and I began getting consistent data errors.  While I was getting errors from the SSD I could manually access the data from the source drive.  That being the case I featured that something was suspect in the SSD and featured I had nothing to lose by doing a complete long form formatting.

 

Cybertooth wrote:

That change happened a couple of years ago. Your verizon.net address is still good; what’s different is that this email is now handled by AOL instead of by Verizon itself.

 

With this change I cannot access the adderess through Outlook and POP3.

I accessed it through AOL.  Cumbersome but it worked.