This is bugging me...

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As welcome as I feel here, the interface between WP & my home is driving me absolutely into a psychotic episode. Or a seizure..
Sensory overload at bare minimum!
What am I talking about?
The way this site always seems to jump around when I go to use the direction arrows or to move my cursor to click on something. It jumps on average at least 3X before I can click on something. Also after up or down arrow moves. The flickering effect is really, really distracting..
Is it the site, or is something wrong on my end? ( I am using crappy Vista after all.)

Sincerely,
Matthew

Have you tried a different browser? I use Maxthon 3 (a shell for Internet Explorer) and Chrome, and I haven't noticed this effect.

Well, I tried to upgrade Internet Explorer because FaceBook suggested it, but the download didn't work. It wants some added plug-ins. I thought I knew which ones, but I guessed wrong.
That flickering screen has GOT TO GO!

Matthew

Just use Chrome.

I use IE8 at work and Chrome at home and have not every noticed the effects that you describe.

Good luck fixing this. What you describe would drive me batty.

It could also be your system. I lost quite a bit of memory on my computer (Mac Pro using Chrome and Firefox) a few months ago and had similar problems. I originally had four GB of memory, lost three of them and started seeing the same kinds of problems due to slow page loading. The pages would look like they were loaded, I'd try to click a link, and it would jump wildly because it wasn't fully loaded. Just upgraded to eight GB memory, and the problem is now gone.

If another browser doesn't help, you may need a memory upgrade. Short of either of those solutions, you may just have to be patient and wait for the pages to fully load. Watch for the progress indicators on your tabs, as well as the tiny little messages you get (usually near the bottom of the window) that say something similar to

If either of those are still showing, the pages are not completely loaded yet.

Dear previous poster,
How could you lose 3gb of ram? Did you physically take it out of the case? Did you install msn, yahoo, adobe, microsoft word, and a bunch of other programs and leave them running in the background?

And OP, download "ccleaner" for windows and run it, then download "spybot search and destroy", and run it.... then download avast for a antivirus (free) and get rid of norton (because its most likely there)... Then download firefox or chrome and use it - and never use IE again because your just causing a ton of problems by using it, especially without their "uber cool" updated version, which is still just as prone to attacks.

I quit.

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Uh...

It's known as a hardware failure. It had nothing to do with software.

I was wondering if you where looking at available ram. Hardware fault sounds plausible.

Flashing HD light on Mac Pro is a dead giveaway for either RAM or HD failures. Won't even start. The upside is that two of the three I thought I lost might be okay. I thought I understood the correct order to install them, but discovered after installing the two new four gig sticks incorrectly I had it wrong. Mac Pros are very particular about the order RAM is installed, so I may have only lost one gig originally.

That's what you get for getting a Banana MrXxx lol Banana = Apple

I am considering getting rid of my old internet files. I am strongly suspicious that they are causing this. Now I have to remember how I do that with Vista. I REALLY, REALLY miss XP was a much better OS in general!

Sincerely,
Matthew

Sorry I didn't see this post until just now. I was having pretty much the same problem and I know how much it was annoying me. I have just this morning downloaded Firefox and now no more jumping I was hesitant to try it but it only took a few mintues and seems to be working fine so far. Maybe you could try that?

^^ Ah, well done. IE is and always has been a mess.

You now also have a more secure and more standards-compliant browser, and adding an advert/flash blocker is a couple of mouse-clicks away.
"Adblock Plus", "Flashblock" and "NoScript" are essentials. Check out the menu "Tools|Add-Ons" and select "Get Add-ons", then type in the names and follow the (easy!) prompts.

^Thanks, I have just done that aswell.