Archive through March 28, 2003
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Archive through March 28, 2003
Draheid | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:54 am     Conejo: The 'official' addresses for here are www.tvclubhouse.com or www.bigbrotherfanclub.com, either of which will ultimately direct you to tvclubhouse.bomis.com which is where the board actually resides. So you should be able to use any of those. The previous address you have bookmarked appears to still work, however these I've listed here are more current and may resolve your difficulty in getting here. Hope this helps. |
Conejo | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 10:29 am     Thanks Draheid, I'll just change the address in my favorites. I was just stumped as to why all of the sudden the address in my favorites was no longer working. (I just tried it again and I am still getting 'this page can't be displayed'). Just thought that maybe someone else might be having a problem logging on. Thanks again Dra! |
Ducky | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 12:08 pm     I'm going this weekend to help my brother and his family purchase thier first computer. They want to spend between $500.00 to $700.00 dollars. Are thier any good computer packages out their that we could look at? |
Mygetaway | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 03:57 pm     Ducky.. Dra and others are the experts, but one thing I've learned is you get more for your money if you don't go with the brand names. Have a computer put together for you and you'll probably be much happier. Hopefully they can post more details for you. |
Ducky | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 04:28 pm     Thanks Mygetaway. We have a Hewlett Packard that we got back in 1999. I was looking to see if their were any specials that I could find for them. |
Fanny | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:07 am     I use the New Messages feature. When I hit my back button to get out of a thread and back to New Messages, I get this: "Warning: page has expired. The page you requested was created using information you submitted in a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, Internet Explorer does not automatically resubmit your information to you. To resubmit your information and view this webpage, click the refresh button." Then I hit refresh and it takes longer to get back to New Messages (because it's updating) than I have patience for. Did I inadvertently change some IE setting somewhere that needs to be unchanged? This is driving me nuts. Thanks! xxooxoxox |
Draheid | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:34 am     Fanny: I don't use Internet Explorer so I am not familiar with this particular setting. When I took a quick glance through some of the options in IE, I didn't find anything that stood out as a possible cause for what you're experiencing. My recommendation would be to right-click on the message you wish to read, then left-click on 'Open in New Window" which will display the message in a 2nd browser window. When you're finished reading the message, simply click the 'X' to close that window and return to the original New Message display. If anyone else is more familiar with IE and has experienced this, please jump in and let us know. Hope this helps. |
Myjohnhenry | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:40 am     I use IE and New Messages and the only time I have encountered an error like that is when I didn't have the boxes checked on the profile page to remember name and password in a cookie or to remember my sign in info on the new message page. Also...if you have somehow set things up to delete cookies that will mess things up. |
Grannyg | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:52 am     Fanny in your profile go in there and put a check mark by "open new messages in new windwow" and it works for me!! |
Fanny | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:56 am     Thanks, Dra. I didn't know about "open in new window". And thanks, MJH. I went into my profile and I have checked "remember name & password in a cookie" and "clear cookie when I exit". And sorry for being an idjit, but where do I find the "remember my sign in info on the new message page"? This started happening only a few days ago. I haven't been in my profile in ages so haven't checked or unchecked anything recently that would have an affect. But I did see where there's an option to open a new window for new messages and I've now marked it (thanks again, Dra). It's not as convenient as before, but it's better than getting that warning messages every single time. I suspect I must have somehow told IE something that I didn't mean to. But I don't know what it would have been, and I have no clue what to even look for to check. Thanks so much! |
Fanny | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:57 am     Thanks, GrannyG. I just did that! |
Myjohnhenry | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 11:05 am     Sorry Fanny...I meant to take that part out...it is only on the profile page. |
Fanny | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 11:28 am     No problem, MJH. I'm just easily confused, LOL. |
Twinkie | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 02:37 pm     Ducky, I just got a new computer from Office Depot for $699 with a $100 mail-in rebate. It is a Systemax and comes with all the bells and whistles. 512 megs of RAM, 80 gigs of HD, CD player and burner, DVD drive, 4 USB ports, and XP Pro. It comes with everything but a monitor and you can pick those up pretty cheaply these days. |
Ducky | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 03:09 pm     Thanks Twinkie I forgot all about Office Depot. Looks like just what they are looking for. |
Fanny | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 03:46 pm     <sounds pretty fancy, Twinkie. Have you stepped away from the keyboard yet? Are we going to have to hook you up to an IV?> |
Twinkie | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 08:27 pm     LOL, Fanny. Actually I haven't gotten much time to use it! |
Whoami | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 11:25 am     Not sure if this is really a computer problem per se, but... I have a Hotmail account. I rarely use it, and have only given the e-mail addy out to family. Yet, I am getting flooding with spam porn e-mails. I never open them, but the subject line in them alone is appalling to read. Originally, I'd just block all the ones that came into my inbox, until I heard (from here I believe) that blocking or unsubscribing only lets the sender know they reached an active e-mail addy, and will just continue to flood you using a different account of their own. I put my options on to filter junk mail, but it doesnt' catch them. I thought there would be a way to say, "filter out messages with the following words in them." Then I could put in the offensive words. But I see no where that I can do that. I also tried to e-mail Hotmail, and I got an automated response back saying they couldn't take action on my e-mail cause I didn't specify a sender's address as the abuser! *sigh* So, is this typical with Hotmail? I thought MSN had that silly butterfly to protect from certain things hitting your screen. Or is that just for MSN subscribers? What would happen if a child had a Hotmail account? Am I doomed. Shall I just cancel my Hotmail account? Are there better free e-mail servers out there that I can use instead? |
Draheid | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 11:48 am     Whoami: I don't have an easy solution for you. One trick I picked up this morning from someone's posting was their closing line which was something like this: Reply to: WhoamiKnickers@hotmail.com (Remove knickers to reply) <not a valid address as far as I know!> Maybe when you're posting messages with your e-mail address, you could try something like that. Also, be sure to set your spam/junk filters at maximum. The only downside is having to check once in a while for valid e-mails from some services. The only other real alternative would be to setup your e-mail to only accept messages from known (approved by you) senders. Again, you risk not getting new mail from people you haven't added to your list. Sorry I don't have any better solution. |
Kady | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:03 pm     Whoami...I have a hotmail account. Only mail from those in my address book goes to my inbox. Everything else just goes to my junkmail box. I scan my junkmail if I am expecting something from someone like a confirmation for something I ordered for example. I will then move anything of importance like that to another folder then I just empty the entire junkmail folder without opening the trash. |
Whoami | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:21 pm     Thanks for the responses. I was afraid of that. I think junk mail filters are useless if you have to scan your junk mail to make sure something wasn't accidently filtered to the trash bin. I can do that myself my just marking all the garbage "delete" from my inbox! I was just hoping there was a way to have stuff with pornographic talk filtered out! Oh well. I guess I'll have to set up an address book now! |
Scorpiomoon | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 03:09 pm     I have a bit of a complex question I'm hoping someone can answer. I run Windows 98. It's being a pain which usually indicates it's time to re-install. I have my hard drive partitioned. I keep Windows--and only Windows on my C drive. All the other programs I run are on my F drive. In the past, when I have formated my C drive and re-installed windows, I also had to re-install all the programs on my F drive. It's not that they were no longer there. They were. But when I would open them up after re-installing Windows, either they wouldn't work or I had to run the inital set up all over again as I did when I first installed the programs. Should I be saving a copy of my reg file? If I save a copy of my reg file, re-install Windows and then import the old reg file into Windows will the programs on my F drive work fine without having to reinstall everything? |
Draheid | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 03:32 pm     Scorpiomoon: There is much more than just registry entries that are associated with the programs installed on your computer, even if you designate the F: drive for the destination. When you perform a software installation, there are many files (drivers, libraries, etc.) that are also installed into the Windows folder along with many other sub-folders there as well. (ie. Microsft office products probably install a number of fonts which are located in C:\Windows\fonts). When the previously installed software can not find these files, that would render the programs inoperative since those programs are dependent on the files removed when you perform a complete re-install of windows. Hope that helps. |
Scorpiomoon | Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 06:35 pm     Draheid: That helps a ton. Thank you! |
Willsfan | Friday, March 28, 2003 - 12:24 pm     Why can't I post here on TVCH"s message boards using Explorer or Netscape7.0? The only browser I can get in here with is Netscape Navigator3 or 4 -it's old. I retyped my username and password about a hundred times using Explorer and it still gave me error readings. The ISP is the same, it's the same computer I can't figure this out, but when the weather is bad like today this old browser has difficulty even loading TVCH to view. |
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