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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Monday, November 22, 2004 - 11:31 pm
Warmer? I think you are stretching a bit there Bob. If getting to lay under those renowned Chicago Palms means documenting code though, I think I'll take a pass for now. Hehehe. (Maybe in a few more degrees though...)
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 12:56 am
WOW Thank you all so much for all the detail... Thank you, thank you!!!!!!
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 9:50 am
Just one thing Cross, this part is fuzzy for me: "Of course your BIOS has to be set to boot from the floppy, hopefully it is, if not change it, or ask how to change it." How do I check this setting? Thanks again... Kelli
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 9:55 am
How to check? Stick your boot floppy in the drive, and reboot. If your computer boots from the floppy into DOS, then the current settings are fine. If your computer ignores the boot floppy, and loads up Windows instead, then you will need to make a change in your BIOS settings. (Easier to do than describe if you are wondering why I keep glossing over it. )
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:15 am
and if you do boot into DOS you will get an A:\ prompt. Then put a cd in the CD-ROM and type DIR D:\ to see if it can read the drive. If it can, then you are all set to go. DIR C:\ should also list the contents of your hard drive, so you can verify that all the drive letters are pointing at what you would expect. During bootup, it may display the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM, so look for that. If your computer boots into your old Windows 98, then you will have to press a key while booting up to get into the BIOS. It might be F2, or Esc or Delete or something else, but during the boot up you will see a message to hit a certain key to get into setup. Hit that key. Once in the BIOS setup, you will have to look for a section that lists the order of boot devices. I usually like to keep it set in the following order: Floppy first, then CD-ROM and finally Hard Drive. All you need is for the Floppy Drive to be first. Then save the changes and reboot with the boot disk in the A:\ drive and you should be good to go.
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:39 am
Thank you.....
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:44 am
Looks like Bob filled in all the cracks, and put a finishing shine on it. Thanks. 
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 6:58 pm
Okay all of you geniuses. Here's the problem: My mothers computer has IE as her preferred browser. All of a sudden, it takes forever once you double click the IE Icon on her desktop and about 5 minutes later, IE pops up. Her favorite thing to do is play the free games on MSN. Whenever we try to play a game, it comes up with a javascript error (whatever the heck that means!) and the computer hangs up. Only way out is to ALT/CTRL/DELETE and shut it down via task manager. Any ideas on what I can do to help her? (PS: Don't even think about mentioning another browser - she won't even go there!) Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:16 pm
Here's the usual questions that will be asked:- What visur protection is she running?
- Has she run a virus scan and are the virus definitions up to date?
- Has she scanned for adware and spyware and what did she use?
- What operating system?
- How much memory (RAM) does the computer have?
2 archives back is a post on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 1:13 pm, which gives links to 2 of the more popular adware and spyware removal programs. You may want to read some of the other posts in that archive, since several people were talking about speeding and cleaning things up.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 6:57 am
Well, I've run both AVG and found 2 trojan viruses, quarantined and deleted. Also run Spybot and found all of that stuff and did the same thing. She uses Zone Alarm, I updated the virus definitions for AVG. She is running WIndows 2000 and has tons of ram since this is a new pc. Still getting hung up in opening IE and even My Computer. Since Netscape works, I'm wondering if I need to reinstall IE -- but I don't know how to do that. I really need some help with this of she'll kill me when she gets home.
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:03 am
Hmmm, that sounds like an annoying problem. I recall having that one years ago on a work box, but don't remember the fix. I wonder if (re)installing the latest service pack (4) might shake it loose.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:23 am
It is annoying. It takes 3 minutes to load IE and then when I click on a link I get "the finger", literally. It never moves.......How do I find out what version of IE she has? Also, will Spydoctor, Zone Alarm and AVG conflict? I'm stumped guys, and really need help!
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:45 am
To find the version of IE, load up IE, and check the About screen from the Help menu. Spydoctor/Zone Alarm/AVG all perform different tasks so there should be no conflict. As for fixing it, I'm much better at that sort of thing in person than over the net, but I'd futz with the user profile, maybe try creating a new user account, and I'd reinstall the service pack, followed by a trip to windows update. I don't know how much of that you'd be willing to attempt on your own, but those are the sorts of things I'd be doing if I could figure no other reason for the problem. Maybe someone else will pipe in with some idears.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:45 am
Juju should be here for all IE questions, since she just spent a month battling with a corrupt version. I think she read every site ever published related to IE. The typical IE suggestions are to clear the cache (delete temporary internet files) and upgrade to the most recent version of IE. You can check the IE version number by selecting Help->About Internet Explorer from the menu. Right click on My Computer->Properties and verify what service pack is installed. You should probably install service pack 4 if it is not already there.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 10:04 am
Have tried all of that, even reinstalled IE with the Service Pack. Are there any good PC Doctor programs youa ll would recommend......
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 10:24 am
I wonder if Dr. Kavorkian has anything out for PC's 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:06 am
I just received an email from a friend of mine which says: "Every once in awhile, a group of black vertical lines, 2 inches wide and 4 inches long flash onto my screen! Then, certain letters will disappear from words eg. "Netscape" will become "Netsca e", etc" Does anyone know what this is?? I think he has Windows 98 and he uses Netscape.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:24 am
Sorry, Jan -- haven't heard of it....but let us know! I think I've determined that the problem I am having with IE is related to Java. Mom has mentioned that there were problems with Java. How can I make sure it is working appropriately?
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:38 am
Hmmm. Java huh? Your earlier message mentioned javascript, which is a different thing altogether, but if java is the problem, I just happen to have the java download website open from using it earlier. If you want to try installing that, here is the link: Link
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:50 am
Cross, thanks for the link. I did redownload. No dice. She likes to go to ZUMA in MSN Games. When I get there, I get this message on the bottom progress bar: javascript penWindow('/en/zuma/game.htm','spg',",",") any idea what that means?
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:50 am
The big grin icon should be "OPEN WINDOW"
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:59 am
Well, what you are seeing there in the statusbar is an indication that the next click is going to pop open a new window. (That in itself is not an error message, just an informational one.) I went to the msn game site, and started into zuma, it wanted to install some msn game junk, then it wanted to install some popcap loader junk, I bailed out at that point. I think it is adware supported software which I avoid whenever possible. I wonder if some of the game files have been wiped from the system by your adware software. That might be why the game is not working. Or even simpler, you may have a popup blocker that is blocking it, but generally a popup will pop when requested.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:12 pm
Here is the actual Javascript error message from Netscape: try is a reserved identifier. n('</DIV>');}try{if(HasFlashVersion(6)==true && g_TestNoFlash==false){writeFlash("443", "266", "Superblip", "/images/v9/en-us/game/superblipplayer.swf", "/images/v9/en-us/game/", "#FFFFFF")}else{WriteAltFlash();}}catch(e){}iteln('</MAP>'); document.writel .............^ JavaScript Error: http://zone.msn.com/en/root/ http://icc.intellisrv.net/adopt.jsp?l=584169915&sz=300x250&r=j&rnd=[cachebuster], line 2: syntax error. <HTML> ^ JavaScript Error: http://zone.msn.com/js/footerpos.js, line 28: document.getElementsByTagName is not a function.
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Luvmyjrt
Member
09-18-2003
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:15 pm
So Crossfire, how do I get that set back up? Is there anything in the Internet Options that I should check?
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:21 pm
I went to the site and was able to load and play the game. After 15 minutes of verifying that the game was working (ok, I played a few levels!) it looks like there is not a problem with the Javascript on that page. The javascript: OpenWindow('/en/zuma/game.htm','spg',",",") just shows you what the link is executing. Looking at the source for the page, it is just trying to open a new window with a URL of http://zone.msn.com/en/zuma/game.htm Try this link directly to see if the game will run. I had to install an ActiveX component, so that is another area that might need to be updated. Maybe ActiveX has been disabled in the IE settings? I'm assuming that you can play this game using Netscape? That's all I got. Maybe I should go back and test a few more levels to verify that everything is still working correctly for me!
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