Dialog lift-off syndrome

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On my laptop PC, the MS antispyware pop-up messages in the
bottom-right of the screen zoom vertically up the screen
very quickly and cannot be read. Quite comical!

The PC is a NEC Versa Premium running XP Pro SP2. Any
ideas?
 
If your Taskbar is located at the side of the screen this will happen. Drag
it back to the bottom and this will stop reoccurring.
 
I've been tempted to post something like:

This is an initial effort on the part of the programmers to provide an
"easter egg" in the product. At the moment it is comical, but future
revisions may make the pop-ups swerve away from the mouse or other good
gaming moves to add excitement to the application.

However, somebody'd probably believe me.
 
I have found a bizarre workaround using the nifty task
switcher that one can get with the power toys. The task
switcher will show the contents of the dislog when you use
the alt-tab. Read what it says and make your decision.
In dialogs with the ALLOW and DENY buttons: you will tab
once, after alt-tabbing to switch the focus, to select
DENY and tab twice to select ALLOW.
 
Thanks! I believe this may be a first--I think it was possible to slow them
down by stabbing them with the mouse pointer, but this sounds actually
workable, or nearly so.
 
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