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Logitech Touchpad t650
Swiping, tapping and gesturing on your
Windows 8 PC
By Gypsy D’ Katz
Just another gadget to play with,
but it makes Windows 8 on my PC
more bearable. I’m slowly warming
up to Windows 8 and not having a
touchscreen, then why not try a
touchpad.
As a registered own of a few other
Logitech product, I receive their newsletter for new
product and low and behold, just recently, I got
one for the new
Logitech Wireless
Rechargeable
Touchpad T650.
Although I procras-
tinated a few days
before pushing that
order button, I’m
now the proud own-
er of a new toy.
Much larger than your laptop touchpad, this multi-
touch surface works almost seamlessly with my
new Windows 8 desktop. It pretty much mimics the
gestures that I’m familiar with on my iPad, so it did-
n’t take much to get the hang of the standalone
touchpad. Although I still occasional reach for the
mouse which I have now completely moved off the
desk
Once you charge the unit and turn the slide switch
on, the 5.25 inch square device is simple easy to
use. Oh yeah, the touchpad connects to you PC
with a USB receiver dongle. Although I haven’t had
it that long, I’ve read that once charged the touch- (MRT) was run and had not been deleted au-
pad will stay charged for more than a week. Of
course you can use the on/off switch to turn it off
and save power. You will also need to install the
LogiTech SetPoint software which will allow you to
customize the touchpad.
Now you can use all the gestures that helps make
Window 8 fun, by sliding in from the left to open
the Charms bar or from the top to access the appli- and $shtdwn$.req.
cation menu. I have a little problem with my paws
when trying to do a two or four finger swipe, but
those of you will fingers will find this easy.
In conclusion, if you have a desktop PC and are
limited in space on your desk this is a suitable re- support.microsoft.com/kb/890830#Faq. In par-
placement for your mouse. As for laptop users, it’s
just a larger touchpad unless you dock you laptop
and use a wireless keyboard, then this would be a
great assessor.
The Touchpad sells on LogiTech’s website for $79,
but can be found for as low as $61 elsewhere.
7
Holy Crow
Is this a VIRUS
By Linda Gonse, Editor/Webmaster, Orange Coun-
ty PC Users’ Group, CA
March 2013 issue, nibbles & bits
www.orcopug.org
editor (at) orcopug.org
I recently added a second external hard
drive to my computer system. I use one for
backups of InDesign files and the other one for
Acronis True Image system backups.
As I browsed through the files I’d saved to
the drives, I ran into something peculiar. Both
drives had folders with names that were long
strings of random letters. And each folder con-
tained one file: mrtstub.exe at 89KB on the
Iomega drive, and MPSigStub.exe at 227KB
on the Seagate drive.
Fearing these might be malware or a virus,
I quickly did a Google search. Interestingly,
the search turned up conflicting opinions in
different forums. Some people said it was a
virus and highly dangerous, some said the
folder and file(s) inside were benign, some
said the files were leftover from when Mi-
crosoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
tomatically, and some said Windows created
them.
Although I only found one file in the folders,
other people have seen as many as four at
one time: mrtstub.exe, mrt.exe._p, MRT.exe,
I found a link to information about the Mali-
cious Software Removal Tool at http://
ticular, it gave instructions on how to remove
the Malicious Software Removal Tool.
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