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DaveWF

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Ok everyone, since it seems like I can get every other question answered here, I figured I'd try for a little tech support.

Something odd just started happening yesterday... whenever I click on a link that opens a new window, the window opens, but loads forever. If you stop the load, then RE-load it, everything is fine. I first noticed this when I tried opening the Live Chat room here. Any ideas? and YES, I've tried rebooting.

Here's my specs:
Win XP Corp.
IE 6.0 with all latest updates & security fixes
P4 1.5ghz
512 mb RAM
80 GB hd
anything else you think might help?

Thanks everyone!
Dave ;)
 
wow, that's weird.

I have no idea where the "1." came from in the title of this thread....

You think it's related to my problem here...?


LOL
Dave ;)
 
Hmmm..is it taking forever to load only when opening a second window? or always...then reload fixes it....

As a side note re: share-bear or sumthin like that... I just ran into that little POS program yesterday. The students are using the school machines to share their music.... this particular program is creating a Virtual Memory paging file in excess of 1gb.....shoulda heard that row of P-4's grind-grind-grind.... really ticked me off...don't mess with sumthin that ain't yours...

Grrrrr.. nevermind.
 
I'm a computer guy, but I don't know much about Windows. You could try a different browser and see if the problem persists. I like Mozilla.
 
Dave-

Make sure you've patched WinXP, not just IE6.  The chat room technically shouldn't have problems, because it's written in PHP, which all current browsers support.  Like FT and Horse said, make sure any memory resident programs such as file sharing P2P stuff is off, that sucks down a lot of RAM.  Also, you might try pausing your virus scanner, sometimes that'll cause a lag.  Also, try clearing your browsers cache files.  Sometimes you can get one bad file in there (not virus, just screwy file....  technical term there :p) and it will mess up everything.  Give it a shot.

Horse, try and get rid of BearShare, they install 'spy-ware', which means BS can and does catalog what sites you visit, what programs are installed etc..  If your kids must use a music sharing prog, try audiogalaxy.com.  They haven't been hit by the RIAA, and it's a little more secure.

Hope that helps

Oh and as a last resort, sell that PC and get a Mac :p :p :p
LOL

-Tony
 
Oh and as a last resort, sell that PC and get a Mac :p :p :p
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No reason to let a perfectly good PC* go to waste, all you need to do is install a decent OS on it.

*Yes, I know, there is no such thing as a "perfectly good PC" ;)
 
Ok, I think I wasn't clear in my original explanation....
When I said it takes forever to load, I mean it NEVER loads. Just sits with the little window graphic showing that it's loading... but it never does

I don't think it's a TSR or anything, because I haven't loaded anything new recently and the problem just started yesterday.

I've gone to the Windows Update site, and there's nothing else to install - I've done it all.

Any new ideas?
Dave ???
 
Do you have a pop up ad blocker installed? They can cause problems in this area.
 
Matt R said:
Do you have a pop up ad blocker installed? They can cause problems in this area.
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True dat :p

Also clear that cache Dave. All it takes is one bad file to throw off everything.

Other than that, burn some leaf to the gods :p

I've seen this plenty on client's Pc's, and the last resort is to reinstall IE, but you're not to that point yet. I'd clear the cache, close and reopen IE and try it again.

Any error messages? Just hangs? It could also be the way your ISP caches websites, especcially if your using AOL.

Oh and FT, I agree. I'm an old Linux/Unix/Win98SE person, that recently fell in love with OS x. Amazing. XP corp isn't bad, but win2k is a much more stable OS imo than XP. I beta'd XP and railed against it weekly on the meetings for it.
 
Hahaha, true. Old enough to have gotten to play around with Linux when it was 'only' for servers, but not old enough to have gotten to play with Unix when it was still owned by Dennis and Telcordia or Bell Labs, or whatever they called themselves back in the day....

:p
 
Remind me sometime to tell you a great story about where Unix came from. I went to a talk at a Linux conference given by one of the guys who was on that development team with Ken, Dennis, Peter, Rob, etc. and he explained how it all came about. It's a very funny story. PM me or something if you want to hear it...it's too long and too off topic for this forum.
 
Gee pops, you think you posted that enough times??

Man oh man, some people will do anything to bump up their post count!

Dave ;)
 
LOL....what the heck was that all about? You guys have been complaining about the board acting screwy, but it's been fine for me. I posted the story, and when I hit "Add Reply", I got a MessageBox that said "Document contains no data". I hit the back button and then "Add Reply" again and typed in the post. This time it accepted it but I had like 12 copies. Sorry...don't know what I could have done to cause that. Anyway they're all deleted now....I think.
 
First hop in the way back machine and go all the way back to the mid-60's when compter technology was still in its infancy. Back then there really wasn't such a thing as an operating system, or shell, or anything. There was a sort of crude command interpreter but that was about it.

So along comes Ken Thompson. Ken was an employee of AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. His idea was to create a program that acted as an interface to the user (or operator as they were called back then). This program would do everything for you except make coffee and it was called Multics. It was sort of a command interpreter, OS & program launcher all in one. And that turned out to be its downfall. Multics was a complete and utter failure.

So Ken and team, rather than being fired outright, were banished to a remote building on the Murray Hill campus to contemplate their sins. This building was horrible. The roof leaked, the heat didn't work very well, there was no A/C and the one computer they had was a POS even for the late 60's.

And contemplate their sins they did. Ken realized that the reason Multics was such a failure, was that it tried to do too much (sound familiar anybody?). He thought that it would be far better to have many programs that each did a single thing (correctly) and to provide a way of connecting these programs together to do more complex tasks. So the idea of the shell was born and so was the idea of the pipe that is used to connect the output of one program to the input of another. The name Unix was chosen as a play on words on the name Multics.

And so thanks to Ken, Dennis, Brian, Rob and the rest, I can do things like this:
tar cf - . | (cd foo; tar xvf -)

:) :)
 
Great Story FT. Unix really is such a superior OS, it's a shame that M$ has made everything so visual, because if most of the non techie people learned to use the command line, my god. Not only would the PC industry be in a golden age, but M$ would be gone, and you'd have a unified Unix system everywhere instead of a war of M$ vs everyone.

Have you had the chance to play with OSx? It's Darwin based, so it's got the basic core of Unix in there. My goodness, I converted so fast it wasn't even funny. WOrked on PC's for 21 years, and bought an old Blue and White Mac when OSx released. 2 weeks later, I sold all my PC's, and when the new Imac was released, I ordered it.

So now my home network looks like this:
SGI just kind of sitting around acting like a router (RH 6.5)
B&W 333 running OSx.1.5
New Imac running same
Ibook
All wound together with the wireless UFO from Apple and DSL.

Yum. Geek alert! LOL

I still work on PC's daily, but am absolutley sold on using alternative OS's. Even when I used Windoze, I used LiteStep's shell instead of Win98's default gui.

Ok, I think I geeked out enough...
:p
 
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