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Re: [IRCA] OT Computer issue
I had nearly identical issues to Pat's! Count me as one who installed
Firefox over the last couple of years and yes it helped but did not
fully eliminate similar problems that Patrick has experienced. Pages
that would load fine suddenly would get "Page can not be displayed"
errors. Repeadetly hitting F5 (refresh shortcut) in IE would eventually
allow the page to load. Firefox would normally load the "trouble" pages
but not always and they would take forever. FF had a higher success
rate than IE. Sometimes rebooting the PC helped for a while also.
I did all the defrags, virus and adware scans and so on and I still had
issues.
The true solution, however was not switching to Firefox or restarting
the PC, it was changing providers. I think Pat is on dial-up but I had
supposedly high speed internet from Comcast. Once I went to AT&T
U-Verse, the page load errors went away even with IE. My U-Verse speed
is 1.5 Mbps, which is four times slower than Comcast's 6.0 but the pages
load so much quicker and that is a biggie for me and the wife.
If you are on dial-up, could it be a noisy line? Too low of bandwidth?
Dave in Indy
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:27:03 -0700
From: Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] OT Computer issue
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If it is happening on some sites instead of others, I would wonder about
the
integrity of the site you are going to...not to mention the state of
your
computer. It wouldn't hurt if you did a little Googling for the
following
software, downloaded them, and ran them on your box...
malwarebytes anti-spyware
superantispyware
ccleaner
You may have had your browser corrupted. With IE, when you corrupt it,
you
corrupt your operating system. When you corrupt your operating system,
you
corrupt most other things if you use Microsoft for everything. Many web
sites are unaware that they have been messed up by hackers, while the
number
of hacker sites that you would go to are few and far between.
Get Firefox and make sure all of your Microsoft patches and security
updates
are in place. Also, with Firefox there is an add-on you can get called
"Save as Image" which allows you to save a web page as a graphic
file...much
better than a printscreen AND everything is in the same JPG format as
well.
Mike Hawkins
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Most of you are much more knowledgeable than I am on computers. I am
> having an issue with my computer. Often when I go to a website to copy
a
> TV schedule, even when there is a link to "copy" the schedule, I will
> click on "copy" and I will get a message saying that Internet Explorer
> has run into a problem and has to shut down I have no idea how to
solve
> this isuue.Of course I lose the whole page and have to go back to the
> site, but it happens again if I try to copy the schedule. Does anyone
> have any ideas? Thanks.
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
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