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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Jun. ~ Aug.: All Things Technical: The Help Desk ARCHIVES: Computer Problems? Ask Here (ARCHIVES): Archive through August 08, 2005 users admin

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Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
awe, eeyore, you made me day.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
pic

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader is laughing at me......LOL

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yes, well, your shift slipped, eeyore.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie, I have to run everything in safe mode. Scan disk is fine, but slow. I am using ME.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Annie, why do you have to run everything in safe mode? I hope someone else can help you because I've never used ME and rarely ran into it when I worked for Juno, which was a long time ago anyway. LOL

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eeyores, I hope you get to a point where Shift Happens.



Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eeyores, I hope you get to a point where your Shift don't Stink.




Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 01, 2005 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aaaaiiieeeeeeee!!!!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hellifiknow Twinkie, but for some reason it takes forever to run in regular mode but does well in safe.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 6:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Annie, can you upgrade to XP? I heard a lot of complaints about ME when I was doing tech support and we used to hate getting those calls. Also, are you on dialup, cable modem, or DSL?

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 6:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Annie, we had ME on a computer at my old office. Constantly freezing up, etc. We finally upgraded to XP.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I did upgrade at one time to XP and it crashed my puter! I haven't had any real problems with ME, just these odd maintenance ones.
I have cable modem.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 7:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of my computers had ME on it. It crashed so many times that I finally upgraded to XP. The good news - it never crashes. The bad news - you could make a full breakfast while it is booting up (it's an older computer so XP does not run very fast on it). So now I've got an extremely stable turtle.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
we have ME still on the computers at work. you cannot run defrag in regular mode, you have to not be running ANY programs whatsoever. safe mode is the only option. i'm waiting for the day when we finally upgrade all of our computers there. now as for XP, it is best not to add it to a computer, but to purchase it as the original operating system on a new computer. the older ones just don't have the power needed.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My prob is it's NOT even running in safe anymore.
My computer was fairly new when I tried the XP, I even upgraded the memory for it. I just wasn't all that impressed with it.

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 6:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
o.k. draheid. i did a little searching on my zone alarm & found a setting different on this computer than my other one. changed it and now SOME of the gifs work. the bb eye still doesn't blink but MOST of the smilies wiggle. so, i am happy enough for now.
the setting was about pop-up windows and ads. never would have thought it had anything to do with animated gifs.
any other ideas what i might look for to get the eye to blink and majih's little man on fire running to run?

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
additional note: the eye blinks in the IE browser but not the firefox. i hate IE. so, my questions above are now specific to firefox.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 9:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cndeariso: Now that the issue with your firewall is changed, have you cleared your cache and reload the pages with images on them? Probably the copy of the images you previously downloaded were actually modified by the firewall to prevent the animation - so dumping the cache and loading a fresh copy may do the trick.

Let me know.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I need help with my Win98 PC please.

While Egbob and I were on vacation, ds#1 installed our new SBC DSL. All was working well with the PC, the laptop (which I'm using right now) and ds#2's PC located upstairs in his room.

This past week, I went to turn on the PC and I can't get past the Microsoft Windows98 logo window.

I'm hoping there's an easy fix.....

Thanks in advance for any help.



Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Egbok, HERE is a lengthy article on Microsoft's website with detailed instructions on how to go about diagnosing startup problems with Windows/98.

If you get stuck or see messages you don't know how to work with, please post the details here and I'll be happy to help

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra! And HEY!....where's the "hope this helps"...LOL!!

Hee-hee, I think I'm the first to receive a post from you as "Board Administrator"...


Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You are correct on the first post with this new title - which also confers me the right to presume what I say WILL help, no need to hope!

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL....this is true!

So okay, I have been reading the lengthy article and I actually got to Safe Mode....ohhh, that sounds ever-so-naughty...LOL!!

I'll play with it some more tomorrow....my brain is on it's way to sleep mode for now.


Jan
Moderator

08-01-2000

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<<Jan plants tongue firmly in cheek before posting this>>

I knew it. I just knew it!! Princeton researchers have discovered my problem:

Science proves IT is black magic

BOFFINS at Princeton University have proven that there are some people who should not touch a computer because they are cursed.<snip>

the Princeton boffins say there is a clear statistical reality to what help desk operator have been saying for years – some computer users are just plain jinxed.

According to Canada.com the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) department has confirmed there are some people who have a natural rapport with computers and there are other people who can tigger* everything even without touching it.

PEAR has tested whether people, through their consciousness alone, can somehow affect the output of various devices.

What they did is set up a computer that produced random outputs when there are no humans around. However the moment there was a hexed person sitting in front of one the machines they managed to create a small, but statistically significant, anomaly.

The researchers have no idea how they do this, the only thing they can think of is that cursed users send out a vibe that breaks the computer.

<snip>


LINK

that's me. I "tigger' things!!!

PS "tigger: To Tigger means to 'break a machine completely as a result of human intervention'. It is named after a Kave personality who can allegedly break a server without being in the same room as it. Which is a bit of a problem for him as his job is to fix them."


<<tee hee hee>>