A technical problem ?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:27 am

The weirdest thing keeps happening.

I have slightly narrowed it down. What happens is when I'm playing mohaa , I am in the middle of a firefight, my game minimises and opens my email editor, now this causes me severe pain as it takes like 5 mins to recover and get back into the game.

I dont get disconnected from the game it just minimises and brings up whichever email program I have as my default in my internet explorer options, I know this as I have changed which email prog is default and it always opens that after minimizing the game.

I was thinking maybe a crazy combination of keys I am pressing while fighting caused it but its also happened while I am crouching and waiting for something to happen without touching any keys.

Its a really annoying problem, anyone have any idea's.

If I could just turn off having any email editor in the internet explorer options this might fix it but I dont think its possible, the list has a few email progs to choose from but no option to select NONE.

Why should internet explorer have anything to do with my mohaa ?

edit: This all happens when I am playing multiplayer online.

Cheetohs · Post by **Cheetohs** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:15 pm

Wow, that is really uh... weird! Is this e-mail thingy running while you are playing the game already?

ziptie2k2 · Post by **ziptie2k2** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:23 pm

Is there a way it would be set to auto-alert you when there is activity with it, or does it just come up randomly?

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:47 pm

Disable the services that runs that program before playing.

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:18 pm

Before I join a game I turn everything off, I run a firewall, anti virus and gamespy when I am playing, everything else is off. I often wondered if I was somehow being hacked but I really have no clue.

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:59 pm

i might be wrong but i think i know that this is,the most probable solution is:
u probably fiddled about in the accesiblity features earlier in the control panel .so when ur crouching (pressing ctrl or whatever key u chose) it activates the hotkey 4 ur defualt email program .try openening the accessibility features again and take a look around maybe u will find the solution there,if u c something about hotkeys or so try 2 disable it.if not then its helpful 2 keep in mind that after all attempts have failed,a reformat will always iron out any bugs in ur system

blue60007 · Post by **blue60007** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:04 pm

M&M wrote:i might be wrong but i think i know that this is,the most probable solution is:
u probably fiddled about in the accesiblity features earlier in the control panel .so when ur crouching (pressing ctrl or whatever key u chose) it activates the hotkey 4 ur defualt email program .try openening the accessibility features again and take a look around maybe u will find the solution there,if u c something about hotkeys or so try 2 disable it.if not then its helpful 2 keep in mind that after all attempts have failed,a reformat will always iron out any bugs in ur system

I would have to say thats the problem also there is sticky keys that might do it, also do you have any fancy multimedia keyboard that has special F key functions or buttons. Mine is like that and once I activatied the special F key thing and it did that when I pressed one of the first 4.

Is it happening with a certain level if so there could be a filename confiliction in the script files, posssibly??

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:40 pm

Try this: Click Ctrl-alt-del, choose task manager, select processes and disable MSNMSGR.EXE

This use to interupt my game.
This service is for email & Instant messager

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:34 am

And rename the messenger directory to never see it pop up automatically again.

And remember: Friends do not let friends run MSN.

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:17 am

And rename the messenger directory to never see it pop up automatically again.

thats a very cruel thing 2 do 2 windows,besides u can tell it not 2 pop up again

Friends do not let friends run MSN.

then how are they supposed 2 chat?

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:47 am

Under IE tools Internet options click on porgrams and switch your e-mail to Outlook Express.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:27 am

M&M wrote:
Friends do not let friends run MSN.
then how are they supposed 2 chat?

Use Trillian. Or any other of the multi-protocol supporting IM progs( Trillian supports ICQ, MSN, IRC, Yahoo and Netscape messenger in the same program ).

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:56 am

Its great to see all these ideas, sadly I still have not got to the bottom of the problem.

I forgot to mention that sometimes when the game minimises instead of opening outlook or whatever I have set in the ie options it opens my search thingy, as if I had pressed start/search on my desktop, frickin weird man.

Its the weirdest thing

M&M · Post by **M&M** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:46 pm

alright,try setting ur internet explorer settings 2 reset .u can find it in IE tools\internet options\programs .

Axion · Post by **Axion** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:16 pm

It sounds like you may have gotten some spyware installed on your system by accident. Go download Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/, run it, and see if the problem persists afterwards.

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