Wednesday, 14 January 2026

An electronic, virtual appendectomy.

1001 The (much) older Lenovo AIO which is in use as my workbench computer has always been a bit dodgy; drivers just aren't available for many of its devices under newer Windowses.

One particular annoyance has been the trying-to-work-but-definitely-doesn’t-work touchscreen. Any touch on the screen is read as a touch in a tiny portion on the lower left side, and sometimes it keeps thinking touches are happening there and the mouse can't be used.


Yesterday, I was finally bothered enough by it to do something about it (N.B. not bothered enough to try to make the touchscreen work - that would be a painful & pointless exercise).


I went into Device Manager - Human Input Devices and simply disabled the two entries which mentioned touchscreen.


There I go again, putting the pro in I.T. professional.


Tuesday, 13 January 2026

No progress, but good intentions paving the road...

1549 Haven’t done much on the data/NAS/back-up front lately. Actually, what have I been doing?

I really should check it’s all still working and much more importantly, organise an off-site back-up…