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Being that it is mother's day colliding with Diablo 4 server slam weekend, and needing to get my weekly Halo event done, I thought that I would sneak in a late night session of Halo.
I fired up my late night (after midnight) session of Halo.
Then, randomly, without any notice, I'm in the heat of battle with one or more players of the opposing team and my Task switch view (ALT-TAB) would pop up and stay on the screen, ending in me getting my butt handed to me, ie: killed. Restarting the game did nothing. Restarting the PC did nothing. Physically switching keyboards did nothing. Physically changing mice did nothing! Like, wtf! Randomly it kept happening.
Not playing the game the issue did not happen, only when playing Halo!
So after a long day coding at work, then dinner, and more coding on my own project, it is now after 3am, how do you diagnose? Both the keyboard and mouse are Logitech and wireless. Changing to other branded keyboard and mouse did not resolve it.
It wasn't until I tried to use the Logitech app that I had an issue. Reinstalled the app & the problem was solved... partially corrupt or bugged driver.
Hopefully, this experience will help someone...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Call me old fashioned, I prefer Wired mouse and keyboard (with a PS2 connector if possible but will tolerate USB).
I find wireless if a bit unreliable, mice mis-tracking, keyboard caps-lock being random. Wires got man to the moon!
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I use to be but these days lag is non-existent. I have plenty of other cables on my desk for all the devices and accessories ... anything to declutter is a plus.
FWIW, the non-logitech keyboard and mouse used were cabled. They are my backups. Still, they had the same issue!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Unless you deinstalled the wireless drivers, the wired hardware was collateral damage.
Could it have been a stuck key state? I used to have that happen with remote desktops sometimes.
Switching between normal video and DirectX might have similar opportunities.
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englebart wrote: Could it have been a stuck key state?
I thought it was but cold booting pc and replacing hardware made no difference. Was just a software driver issue.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: Wires got man to the moon!
So that's why the Israelis, the Indians, and the Japanese moon landers crashed - they tried doing it by wireless. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I bet there was a driver that needed to updated
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I don't know about the others, but the Israeli Bereshit lander crashed when the main rocket cut out prematurely. It was literally a bad driver. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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CTRL + ALT + DEL into Task Mangler isn't gonna fix that!
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It'll buff out. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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My odd behavior was solved by new batteries in the wireless mouse. It was still sort of working but oddly.
Work from home took more out of it than I was used to with the battery change schedule I was using before.
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Insufficiently caffeinated! 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The cat woke me by bouncing up and down on my bladder at 05:00; being a normal DSH, he used his "variable mass" power to alternate between 4KG and 45KG randomly to ensure proper wakefulness.
I quickly intuited this meant "I want breakfast" and hastened to oblige, pausing only to deal with my now over-pressurized bladder.
Cat fed, Herself SAT monitored, with surprisingly good results - the little concentrator at max overnight in the spare room with the door closed and an extended cable got her to an all-time high of 94 so that'll be staying in some form, though it'll need some attention in the long term.
No internet. Dial tone, good up- and down-stream speeds, but no IP address, and the desktop refusing to see the local network though the Surface can. Phone for some reason very slow - dial up slow - but diagnostics and swearing finally got 4G and contact with the ISP.
Internet fixed. It's now 06:30 and I can finally get to see what is going on. Coffee time!
I'm lucky I posted this at CP, never mind the right forum! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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stupid cats. And I'm a cat person. My daughter is in transition from one place to another, and her cat grew up at home so we've agreed to watch him for the moment. The problem is that the cat may as well be a beagle, baying in the hallway during the night to announce: 1) I'm hungry; 2) I'm lonely; 3) I want pets; 4) I just took a dump successfully. Two more weeks.
One day, the only pets I will have in my house will actually be mine.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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We used to have a previous cat - "Beldin" - who was a lot more direct: he'd smash his forehead into my nose and try to break it at breakfast time ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Talk about poorly trained cats. All my cats have been trained that if I'm in bed they're in bed. They get up when I do and reasonably politely wait for me to get their breakfast.
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Use 'move thread to another forum' super power if you have!
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While it is true that I was bitten by a radioactive teddy bear and acquired Teddy Powers, they do not include the ability to move threads between fora*
* Or indeed, do anything particularly useful. Handy for organising Picnics in The Woods** on short notice though.
** Or The Spoom if you live in Oz. But watch for Drop Bears!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Did you at least get a yellow spotty companion[^] voiced by Jon Pertwee?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Regrettably not. All I get a series of smaller teds that communicate to me using Chinese Whispers: I can just hear microTed, who can hear nanoTed, who can talk to picoTed. femtoTed supposedly exists, but I suspect he has gone a bit quantum.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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but it was only an elvish imitator.
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