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My computer is playing all sorts of funny tricks on me, or maybe it's the monitor - I don't know.
Anyway, it's not happening this morning for some reason, but the last couple of days, whenever I click the mouse, move the cursor, or more particularly try to watch YouTube etc, my screen goes black. Then after a few moments it gradually shows an enlarged portion of the desktop screen, in very coarse Windows 3.1-ish resolution, which eventually after a further 10 seconds or so will (usually) become a normal screen. Sometimes it will show the normal screen mainly blanked out with the top lines from a second window appearing (I usually have several webpages open at once) until the full screen appears. Listening to music or videos, the sound stutters occasionally, and an Adobe plug-in crashes sometimes.
I've scanned for viruses - none found by Avast. (Which must be working overtime, every time it updates upon boot up it tells me it has done so - twice !)
I know that my Operating System hard drive is almost full, it was pretty small and after several years of running Windows XP plus Service Packs on it it keeps telling me I am running out of disk space. Is all this palaver all to do with my computer basically getting as old and decrepit as me ?
Anyway, it's not happening this morning for some reason, but the last couple of days, whenever I click the mouse, move the cursor, or more particularly try to watch YouTube etc, my screen goes black. Then after a few moments it gradually shows an enlarged portion of the desktop screen, in very coarse Windows 3.1-ish resolution, which eventually after a further 10 seconds or so will (usually) become a normal screen. Sometimes it will show the normal screen mainly blanked out with the top lines from a second window appearing (I usually have several webpages open at once) until the full screen appears. Listening to music or videos, the sound stutters occasionally, and an Adobe plug-in crashes sometimes.
I've scanned for viruses - none found by Avast. (Which must be working overtime, every time it updates upon boot up it tells me it has done so - twice !)
I know that my Operating System hard drive is almost full, it was pretty small and after several years of running Windows XP plus Service Packs on it it keeps telling me I am running out of disk space. Is all this palaver all to do with my computer basically getting as old and decrepit as me ?
Wow, that's a problem and a half ancee ! Did you find the solution on an Australian website ? 
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