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[scarfman]

Well I guess I found out what that processing issue was. Abour four this afternoon the laptop’s speakers began blaring an ad for a male enhancement product (I will not dignify it by naming it here). There was no indication among the buttons on the desktop toolbar, or in Task Manager, what program might be running it; only for the three windows I had open on purpose. (In retrospect it might have been related to my internet browser because the audio occasionally made statements that indicated it was intended to accompany a visual presentation.) I was forced to mute at the whole-computer level - fortunately I was listening to (watching) the tv so that didn’t interrupt anything I was doing at the time. If the thing wasn’t running only during those moments I unmuted it, rather than constantly until I didn’t hear it any more, it was about aan hour long. But I did at one point listen to it long enough to pick up the brand name of the product, so I could look it up and leave a nasty phone message for the company.