My laptop has frozen......how can I switch it off?

[lazybloke]

Other options.... move the receiver 'dongle' to a different USB port.
New battery in mouse?

 

[alicat]

I'm on the edge of my seat. Is your laptop working now @Dave7?

 

[Dave7]

I'm on the edge of my seat. Is your laptop working now @Dave7?

Alicat.
TBH I have not had chance to try it yet. Will do so asap and report back.
Being a true technaphobe I am actually scared to try it.......but I promise to do so

 

[stephec]

There's only one way you're going to find out Dave, light the blue touch paper and stand well back.

 

[Cycleops]

Don't you just hate laptops? Fills me with dread every time every time I have to use my wife’s HP. Even Toshiba are fed up with them and have recently stopped making them after thirty odd years.

 

[Pale Rider]

Get a Chromebook - they are much more even tempered.

But it's still good practice to turn them off completely now and again, rather than leaving them on standby.

 

[tom73]

It's the age old problem "computers are like air conditioning they stop working when you open windows"

 

[sight-pin]

Do you have a key that turns it off & on, as my (F6) key on the laptop stops my mouse pad and cursor working.

 

[Dave7]

Do you have a key that turns it off & on, as my (F6) key on the laptop stops my mouse pad and cursor working.

I really have no idea.

 

[Dave7]

I'm on the edge of my seat. Is your laptop working now @Dave7?

hahaha......just tried it and..........battery is dead .
I will charge it and try again.

 

[Mr Celine]

 

[Dave7]

@alicat
Latest installment .
Can now switch laptop on/off
Cursor works UNTIL I go on internet... then it just freezes. Tried maybe 6 times.....same result.
TBH its been a pain since day one.
I will try again tomorrow. If it fails again I may just put it down to experience and buy one of those chrome book thingies.

 

[Stephenite]

Which internet browser do you use?
Google Chrome?
Microsoft Edge?
Internet Explorer? For example.

 

[Dave7]

Which internet browser do you use?
Google Chrome?
Microsoft Edge?
Internet Explorer? For example.

Internet explorer.
Its the only one I have ever used

 

[lazybloke]

If you press Alt and F4 together to close the current application (the web browser), does the cursor reappear?