How does one get rid of fishy behavior in Windows?
- by Tom Wijsman
After I had boot my computer this morning there suddenly flooded water from the top of the screen, after which some fishes dropped into it. Now I can barely see what I am doing because the water distorts the view. Sometimes the fish follow the cursor so I need to move it away or wait for the fish to mind their own business. This makes it very annoying to use my system.
What have I tried?
Reboot the system.
This caused the water to deplete from the desktop.
Upon reboot, the screen was refilled with water and fishes.
Attach another monitor.
Same problem, fills that monitor as well and gives me extra fish.
Clicking the fish.
Makes them turn direction.
Right clicking the fish.
Changes color of the fish, not really useful.
I'm locked out of changing the background or screen saver settings.
Hence, I had to post the lady below...
Safe mode doesn't save me from the fishes.
It does give me another background there, but I can't screenshot easily.
Other user accounts experience this as well.
The Guest account seems to experience more fish than the other accounts.
Using HijackThis, OTL Timekeeper List, Syninternal Autoruns, RootKitRevealer, ShellExView and similar tools I can't seem to find any entries that could be it, the Sysinternals tools show everything as verified.
I'm suspecting this to be a driver problem.
Randomly removing drivers doesn't seem to alleviate the problem.
When removing the Graphics Drivers, it makes my screen black.
While that could be considered the solution, it's not what I want.
Changing the time / date settings does also not seem to affect the fishes.
Changing the time a few years in the future, I would have expected the fishes to be dead.
But, the same fishes are still there... They simply won't die!
Tried to get used to them.
They are really bothering me, looks like they require food.
I don't know how to give them food, but apparently they get it elsewhere during reboot...
Tried to disable my mouse pointer and use the keyboard.
This works, they now swim around more randomly. They do put their attention to huge changes on the screen, so I need to type slow. Or otherwise I can't see what I'm tying exactly.
Hold my laptop upside down.
This seems to affect the water and fishes, but the water stays in the screen.
They seem super resistant against water sickness and confusion though...
What does the problem look like?
What do I need?
A way to get rid of these fishes on my screen forever, they are really annoying me a lot and I'm about to crack the screen to see if that makes them escape. Do you have any idea why this problem is occurring?
What are my considerations?
Buying an USB fish tank could make the fish leave the screen, I am uncertain though whether the fish could leave the screen through the USB cable.
Using the FISh (programming language) which seems to provide EXPRESSIVE POWER and EFFICIENT EXECUTION, I can however not find any examples on how to remove fish.
What are my Specifications?
I'm using a Sony Vaio Fishy laptop.
Sony VAIO VGN-Fishy, VAIO. Processor: 1337 MHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, T5432, 1 MB, Intel PM965 Express, 667 MHz. Memory: 1024 MB, DDR2-SDRAM, 667 MHz, 2 x 1024 MB, 4 GB. Disk Drive: 50 GB, Serial ATA, 5400 RPM. Storage Media: Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™. Display: 15.4 ", 1280 x 800 pixels, LCD. Video: GeForce 8400M GT, 128 MB. Optical Drive: DVD±R/RW DL, 24 x, 24 x, 24 x, 6 x, 4 x, 6 x, 4 x, 5 x, 5 x, 8 x, 8 x, 8 x, 8 x, 6 x, 6 x, 24 x, 24 x, 24 x, 16 x. Camera: 1.3 MP, 30 fps. Networking: 2.0+EDR. Keyboard: Touchpad, AZERTY. Operating System/Software: Windows Vista Home Premium. Security: Kensington. Weight & Dimensions: 98.8 oz (2800 g), 14 " (355.8 mm), 10 " (254.4 mm), 0.98 " (24.9 mm). Other features: 100 BASE-TX/10 BASE-T, 802.11a/b/g/n/Draft n, V92/V.90, fishes.
Plz! Help me...
