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Place your laments here!
I have almost no internet tonight! Definitely can't watch any livestreams :cry: I just tried the UK Bandwidth Test (with nothing else running) and I have a download speed of 360 kbps. I know those tests aren't very accurate but if I run that one when everything's working properly I get about 6,000. No idea what's wrong :cry:
try rebooting your modem.
do you lose it regularly ?
first thing i would do is reboot router (proper;y if you can if not switch it of/on)
then check connections cables etc especially any extension cables
then after that its really down to your isp its possible they are having problems their end always worth a call to them as at if it happens frequently you have grounds to complain to them and your calls will be logged
That didn't work. But it's OK, it's suddenly come back and now I'm watching Dolly v Djoko! Ran the bandwidth test again and strangely it's now saying 9,500 - it's never shown that high before.
On reflection, I think BT must have been doing some work on the line.
supergran
02-10-2011, 16:14
Can anybody help me with this problem? To do with computer. Since yesterday when I log in to here, facebook or twitter the page is to the right of my screen as I look at it. Have tried in vain to centre but it moves the tiniest way and no more. Also at the top right where you have a box to maximise and minimise suddenly I have two superimposed on each other and the one box symbol has disappeared. This means that I can't log out/sign out as the symbol is no longer visible to the right of my screen. Also cannot move easily from top to bottom or, on here successive pages. as arrows (top and bottom) are hidden. Never had this problem before, don't know what has caused it and have no idea how to rectify it. Hope some computer wizard reads this and gets back to me. You know how I hate having problems because I don't know how to solve them!!!:confused::grrr:
Can anybody help me with this problem? To do with computer. Since yesterday when I log in to here, facebook or twitter the page is to the right of my screen as I look at it. Have tried in vain to centre but it moves the tiniest way and no more. Also at the top right where you have a box to maximise and minimise suddenly I have two superimposed on each other and the one box symbol has disappeared. This means that I can't log out/sign out as the symbol is no longer visible to the right of my screen. Also cannot move easily from top to bottom or, on here successive pages. as arrows (top and bottom) are hidden. Never had this problem before, don't know what has caused it and have no idea how to rectify it. Hope some computer wizard reads this and gets back to me. You know how I hate having problems because I don't know how to solve them!!!:confused::grrr:
Awww crumbs SG :grouphug: - sorry I can't help - not a techy but sure someone will. Was it that extra glass at wine o'clock that caused you to hit a wrong button? Probably just about to do the same myself! Bring on the next DC!!!!!
KnightOwl
02-10-2011, 17:40
Hi supergran! I've moved this to Technical Woes as it seemed more appropriate!
I know you've almost certainly tried this, but I have to go wth the simplest option to begin with - have you tried rebooting your PC?
Unfortunately, from what you describe, if that doesn't fix it the most obvious answer would be that your monitor is knackered, but hopefully that's not the case. If a reboot doesn't help, do you know how to take a screenshot? If so, send me one and Dave & I will have a look and see if we can suggest anything.
SG, it might help computer wizards to solve your problem if you tell us what browser you are using - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or something else? And have you tried just closing the window, as it sounds as though there may be another one behind it?
KnightOwl
02-10-2011, 20:56
One further thought occurs - it's not just something as simple as the window having been dragged partly off the edge of the screen is it? If so, you could try right-clicking on an empty spot on your taskbar at the bottom, and choose "cascade windows" - if you have lots of windows open, it might take you a few minutes to get them all moved and resized back where you want, but at least you'll be able to get at them all....worth a shot.
supergran
02-10-2011, 22:37
One further thought occurs - it's not just something as simple as the window having been dragged partly off the edge of the screen is it? If so, you could try right-clicking on an empty spot on your taskbar at the bottom, and choose "cascade windows" - if you have lots of windows open, it might take you a few minutes to get them all moved and resized back where you want, but at least you'll be able to get at them all....worth a shot. Thanks so much...you are a genius. I right clicked and chose "cascade windows" and it was sorted on everything I've logged into. And thanks for all the help offered by you and Dave. Much appreciated. x
KnightOwl
02-10-2011, 22:44
You're very welcome :)
Thanks so much...you are a genius. I right clicked and chose "cascade windows" and it was sorted on everything I've logged into. And thanks for all the help offered by you and Dave. Much appreciated. x
*Sigh*.......goes all gooey - another happy customer :thumbup:
patmoren
04-10-2011, 08:34
Something which might interest people who want to access their computers, MPs players, iplayers, etc via the internet from any where in the house without using cabling. It is called a Home Plug Adapter. You need two to start with, put one plug into an electricity socket near your router then connect, with the cable provided, between the plug and router. Place the second plug in a electricity socket anywhere in the house and connect the plug again with the cable provided, to any piece of equipment you want use access to the internet. It worksa treat and you can add more plugs but then need to connect as a network (disc provided), or turn offother plugs as it will always work with just the two plugs with building a network connection.
Sorry if everyone already knows this but it was new to me and I wanted to get iplayer on my freesat viewer and didn't have an internet connection to the lounge.
Various types available on Amazon, I bought the Solwise version.
Thanks Pat, Is this a wireless device then?
KnightOwl
05-10-2011, 11:30
Not exactly - they basically use your home's internal electrical wiring as an ethernet connection - so they're wireless in the sense that you don't specifically connect them to each other, they just use the existing wiring.
Pretty good actually - we use them to get iPlayer etc on the main TV.
Maza1987
05-10-2011, 13:47
I was having problems accessing the site this morning. I was at work and it said server error or something.
Anyone else have this problem?
No, I haven't had any problems today. I was on here during Andy's match this morning.
Sallydaisy
05-10-2011, 13:55
I was having problems accessing the site this morning. I was at work and it said server error or something.
Anyone else have this problem?
Hi Maza. Thanks for reporting this and we're sorry you had a problem. There were several of us logged in during Andy's match (I was around from 7.15am thru to 10.45am) and didn't notice any problems. If anyone else DID have a problem please post about it so we can investigate.
Maza1987
05-10-2011, 13:55
Ok. Probably work internet problem.
JAMES4578
05-10-2011, 14:41
Looks like nothing can be done about it but the optons for links, photos, fonts etc are not displayed when I use the site at work. i am also uinable to edit posts for some reason and i hav etried both Firefox and IE. It's fine at home though!
KnightOwl
05-10-2011, 14:42
Hi Maza - if you can let me know roughly what time of day this was, I can look at the logs, but I'm not aware of there having been any issues at our end...
KnightOwl
05-10-2011, 14:45
Looks like nothing can be done about it but the optons for links, photos, fonts etc are not displayed when I use the site at work. i am also uinable to edit posts for some reason and i hav etried both Firefox and IE. It's fine at home though!
If it's fine at home, James, then I'm afraid you're probably right - it sounds like something to do with the internet policy at your place of work - I know where I used to be there was a policy in place which prevented access to some sites altogether, and with others there was limited access eg no images or whatever - this sounds similar to me.
JAMES4578
05-10-2011, 18:48
If it's fine at home, James, then I'm afraid you're probably right - it sounds like something to do with the internet policy at your place of work - I know where I used to be there was a policy in place which prevented access to some sites altogether, and with others there was limited access eg no images or whatever - this sounds similar to me.
At least I can still access the site and post at work, even if it's not ideal!
Oh, what have I done? Obviously hit something by mistake. All of a sudden the window changed to a narrow onel If I open a new window, it's still a norrow one. How do I get back to a full width window?
Further to the above post, I must have it something by accident. 'Cos now the screen that I can see is square with everything expanded heightways. I need to get it back how it was, filling the full width of the screen. But I've no idea why it changed.
I've now got about 3" of black space to left and right and everything is squashed up. It just suddenly went like this, I have no idea why.
If I open a window in IE, it's just the same (I'm in Chrome).
Wonder if turning off and then turning back on would do it? That's a suggestion from a non-techy person!
KnightOwl
05-10-2011, 20:12
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is the same advice I gave supergran a couple of days ago - try right-clicking on your taskbar at the bottom and choose cascade windows - that should move and resize any windows you have open, which might help.
If not, let me know what version of Windows you're using eg XP, Vista, Windows 7...?
Edit: alternatively, Pat's advice above might work - a few weeks ago, our kitten walked across my keyboard, and I ended up with the screen in some weird mode I've never seen or heard of before - nothing I did made any difference, but the old switch-off-and-on-again worked a treat :)
That doesn't help. I'm using Chrome, but if I try IE it's just the same. So the problem is in my computer settings, not my browser settings. I'm on Windows 7
My suggestion was based on it being your pc settings and so i thought switching off and on might work if the current setting isn't saved. See KO's edit above - says that worked for her the other day.
I've restarted twice and it's still the same. Everything is squashed up. Makes it hard to read the text, and of course when I try to watch livestream tomorrow everyone will be tall and thin :cry:
KnightOwl
05-10-2011, 20:36
I've looked through all the screen settings on my Windows 7 laptop, and I can't see much that looks like it would help - the only thing maybe is if you right-click on your desktop, choose Screen Resolution and have a play with the Resolution and Orientation settings - it may be that you've somehow ended up with a 4:3 style resolution on a wide screen monitor?
If that's no use I'm out of my depth :) Dave is out at a photography club meeting, but I'll ask him when he gets home...
System restore to yesterday should sort it.
KnightOwl
06-10-2011, 10:56
System restore to yesterday should sort it.
Depending what caused the problem, that should sort it (as long as your machine is configured to save restore points, of course!)
Do you know how to do a system restore, Linda? You said you were Windows 7 so if you go to Control Panel there will be a "Recovery" option and System Restore is under that. It will offer you the most recent one as a default, or you can ask it to show you a list if you want to go back further.
JAMES4578
06-10-2011, 12:16
Yes the system restore is often very useful and should hopefully fix the problem.
That sounds really drastic? Won't I lose other stuff?
No. All it does is reverses any system changes you've made, it doesn't affect your data.
Thanks. I'll try that when I get home :thumbup:
I'm at work at the moment
I did a system restore to the last restore point, which was 28.09.11 but it hasn't made any difference :sad:
I did a system restore to the last restore point, which was 28.09.11 but it hasn't made any difference :sad:
Sorry that didn't work, Linda. If you post a screen shot, maybe we can advise further?
Sounds like a similar problem but not sure which if any solutions might help Linda
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/85d77ff8-738a-4e1d-aff2-f837894d6194
Finally got it sorted! KnightOwl was right, I thought that seemed the most likely answer, but I couldn't find how to adjust it before. I was on the right resolution of 1920x1080 but it seemed to be fixed at 4:3 aspect ratio. I couldn't find anywhere to change that, either through the PC or on the menu on the remote for the TV/Monitor. If I chose a different resolution that would come with 16:9, but this monitor doesn't support other resolutions. I emailed my son and he emailed back that there would be a button on the frame of the monitor for changing the picture size. There is a row of touch buttons along the bottom of the frame but I never use them 'cos I can't see them. So I got a torch and looked closely. There wasn't one for adjusting the picture size, but there was one for menu. So I tried that and it was a different menu to the one on the remote. I had to fiddle around for ages looking at different things but finally I found where I could change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. Success!
But I haven't got a clue as to how it suddenly changed whilst I was using it.
Thanks to everyone for all their suggestions and specially to KnightOwl.
JAMES4578
07-10-2011, 09:13
Glad it's ok now Linda!
Speedy Hawk
07-10-2011, 12:23
Glad it sorted now. Computers do have funny ways to change by itself!
patmoren
07-10-2011, 15:13
Thanks Pat, Is this a wireless device then?
It is to do with using your electricity circuit as an internet link.
patmoren
07-10-2011, 15:16
Hi Maza - if you can let me know roughly what time of day this was, I can look at the logs, but I'm not aware of there having been any issues at our end...
I wonder if it is the same thing that I get, can very rarely access the site with the first try , comes up with error but try again and it is perfectly OK. Has been doing this since day 1
I wonder if it is the same thing that I get, can very rarely access the site with the first try , comes up with error but try again and it is perfectly OK. Has been doing this since day 1
This does seem a little odd. I'll have a look under the bonnet...
Maza1987
09-10-2011, 12:37
Yes, when I'm at work, I get an error page. Something about the IP address of this website has not been found. It probably is my workplace settings, but a bit odd. One time, the site was fine from my workplace, but more often than not, I cannot get on.
OK, we've made a few changes that will hopefully fix the problems patmoren and Maza1987 (and possibly others?) have been having. It may take a few days for the changes to fully take effect, so don't worry if you're experiencing the same problems today.
Maza1987
11-10-2011, 17:37
Fixed.
I'm posting this from work!
Thank you Davech and anyone else.
Fixed.
I'm posting this from work!
Thank you Davech and anyone else.
Glad we could help! :big grin:
:help:
When I switched on my laptop tonight, before the windows password came up I got a strange screen. I did not write down the details but it said something like press F2 for settings F1 for default or Esc for BBS something or other. Its not something I have got before. I made a guess and pressed F1.
Everything seemed to load OK. Then I decided to get into hotmail. I get a message saying it is not a trusted site.
Technical Details
login.live.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate will not be valid until 28/09/2011 1:00 AM. The current time is 15/01/2007 11:28 PM.
(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
I Understand the Risks
If you understand what's going on, you
can tell Firefox to start trusting this site's identification.
Even if you trust the site, this error could mean that someone is
tampering with your connection.
Don't add an exception unless
you know there's a good reason why this site doesn't use trusted identification.
I have never had this problem with hotmail before. Not sure whether to go in.
A virus/spyware scan was run early evening and I am running another now.
After doing a bit of googling I found that my date and time had been reset, as I have reset those and have got into hotmail OK. I'm a bit worried about what other settings may have changed though.
Your PC has somehow forgotten the correct date/time (it thinks it's 2007!), so the browser thinks the certificate isn't valid yet. Fix the date on your PC, and the error will go away.
I'm not sure what the F1, F2 thing was, unless your PC has crashed, and it's giving you the Windows boot options?
VamosVixs
13-10-2011, 23:20
I get that on my pc everytime I switch it on. I have to press F1 to continue or F2 for settings everytime and I have to fix the time and date everytime as it thinks its 2004. So annoying
vixs your system battery needs replacing, only a few pence to replace.
VamosVixs
13-10-2011, 23:27
How do I do that? Not keen on messing with the tower, is it easy?
You'll need to open it up, yes, and somewhere on the motherboard will be a watch style battery, usually a 2032 size, which you need to replace. It's usually really easy. It's what provides the power to keep the time and date when the system is shut down.
Aaaah. Thanks Hawks , maybe its my battery. This is happening to me every time on my laptop. Everytime I switch it on I get this screen from AMI.com (American Megatrends) and have the choice of pressing F2 for settings on my BIOS or F1 for default. And I have to change the clock.
If I click on the battery icon I get a message saying battery is 96% available (plugged in but not charging). Consider changing your battery.
:help: I am staying away from home - does this mean that my laptop will stop working entirely or will it continue working when plugged into the mains? This is my first laptop and I have never had to change my battery before.
I'm needing to watch the tennis on my laptop :help:
Aaaah. Thanks Hawks , maybe its my battery. This is happening to me every time on my laptop. Everytime I switch it on I get this screen from AMI.com (American Megatrends) and have the choice of pressing F2 for settings on my BIOS or F1 for default. And I have to change the clock.
If I click on the battery icon I get a message saying battery is 96% available (plugged in but not charging). Consider changing your battery.
:help: I am staying away from home - does this mean that my laptop will stop working entirely or will it continue working when plugged into the mains? This is my first laptop and I have never had to change my battery before.
I'm needing to watch the tennis on my laptop :help:its a different battery hawk is refering to its the cmos battery,(cmos tells your hardware what to do on boot before your hard drive etc kick in) on laptops they tend to be in under a little flap in the compartment that houses the power-pack battery remove that first and there should be a little screw that will reveal the battery
vixs changing it on your is honestly straight forward, if you look on you tube for changing cmos battery there should be vis its a 2 minute job only real danger is accidently knocking somthing trying to get the battery out and of course remove the power lead from the back of the tower before ever going inside
VamosVixs
14-10-2011, 10:18
Had a look on youtube and it seems fairly straightforward. :thumbup:
Thanks Jay. I think my main battery has gone too. If I unplug my latop from the mains it lasts about 1 or 2 seconds. :glum:
Thanks Jay. I think my main battery has gone too. If I unplug my latop from the mains it lasts about 1 or 2 seconds. :glum:ah then yes, not a hp per chance ?
ah then yes, not a hp per chance ?
Oooo - saucy! ;)
Oooo - saucy! ;)
:laugh: :doh:
:rolling::rolling::rolling::rolling:
That was very witty, Pat!
:rofl: :rofl:
I also get a little red cross on the battery icon. Maybe its Cross and Blackwell's not HP.
Its an ASUS F3H series about 3-4 years old by the way.
:rofl: :rofl:
I also get a little red cross on the battery icon. Maybe its Cross and Blackwell's not HP.
Its an ASUS F3H series about 3-4 years old by the way.
:laugh:
ah then yes, not a hp per chance ?
Unforutnately there is not hidden compartment behind where the big battery is for a BIOS battery.
I have managed to speak to the guy in the computer shop where I bought my laptop, eventually. He reckons the BIOS battery may be very hard to find so have to take my laptop in (of course this is just when I am away from home for a week or two :grrr:). But he also reckons that its very strange that both batteries have gone at the same time, so he is wondering whether there is something else wrong, eg a circuit, or the charger, and he is not so sure buying a laptop battery will fix it, unless the BIOS battery needs a little bit of charge in the main battery for it to work. :glum:
KnightOwl
15-10-2011, 15:58
The other thing that occurs to me would be a motherboard issue, unfortunately. I have been doing some googling for you, but not found much of help - batteries for your model are fairly easy to get hold of for around £30-£35 but I haven't been able to find anything very helpful about the CMOS battery - for other ASUS models, but not yours.
I agree with what your shop chap said about it being odd both batteries going at once, and I did read a few forum posts from people with your laptop who said they'd had various battery-related errors, but when they took the laptop in to be fixed, it was replacing the motherboard which actually solved the problem - whether that is a possibility for a 3-4 year old laptop I'm not sure.
Sorry I couldn't be more help :sad:
VamosVixs
19-10-2011, 13:14
Right got my new battery so away to open the tower and try to replace it. Hopefully I will be back soon! :rolling:
VamosVixs
19-10-2011, 13:40
I'm back, still got the F1, F2 message and I reset the time and date. Just hope I don't see that anymore.
VamosVixs
20-10-2011, 10:33
Turned on my pc this morning and it is now back to normal!! :thumbup:
Hey! Brilliant Vixs!!:jitterbug:
Turned on my pc this morning and it is now back to normal!! :thumbup:
:yahoo: great stuff Vixs
I've not been able to do anything about mine as I am still away at my Dad's.
That's good to hear, Vixs :thumbup:
supergran
20-10-2011, 22:09
Good news!!:thumbup:
Speedy Hawk
23-10-2011, 10:14
This forum was strange 2 days ago when I login saying welcome screen as usual then takes me back to page that I am not login. So I couldn't login. Strange but today it working perfectly.
Here's one for the experts.
My laptop quite often shows connected to the router but not the internet and troubleshooters suggest that the gateway needs repaired which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The confusing bit is that the PC also has a wireless connection and my daughter can work away quite happily while all this is going on.
I have checked that I have the latest drivers for the laptop network adapter, and resetting it doesn't always work either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. And yes, its an HP!
if you bring up a run box ( in the start menu) and type "cmd" (leaving out the speech mark :)) this will bring up a command line box in here type "ipconfig /renew" this will force the adapter to isue with a new ip address set which more often than not will cure it
incidentally do you know who handles the wireless within your laptop is it windows or third party software on the laptop ? (my bets third party)
Thanks, i'll try that later. Don't know how the wireless is handled although it doesn't seem to connect until Windows is up and running.
Here's one for the experts.
My laptop quite often shows connected to the router but not the internet and troubleshooters suggest that the gateway needs repaired which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The confusing bit is that the PC also has a wireless connection and my daughter can work away quite happily while all this is going on.
I have checked that I have the latest drivers for the laptop network adapter, and resetting it doesn't always work either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. And yes, its an HP!
I am with talktalk and have dynamic ip addressing. Sometimes I find that my internet stops working, but is still working for someone else in my house at the same time, or sometimes it stops for everyone. When this happens I switch the router off and wait a minute or two and switch it back on. Often this does the trick - it usually changes my ip address when I do this. Once when that did not work I phoned my service provider and got put through to their techies and they tweeked the line somewhere.
if you bring up a run box ( in the start menu) and type "cmd" (leaving out the speech mark :)) this will bring up a command line box in here type "ipconfig /renew" this will force the adapter to isue with a new ip address set which more often than not will cure it
incidentally do you know who handles the wireless within your laptop is it windows or third party software on the laptop ? (my bets third party)
Just had a chance to try it, and it worked straight away. Is this likely to be a permanent cure? Or will i just need to do that every time?
Yesterday I couldn't watch tennistv.com at all as it just kept buffering. I found another stream and that seemed to be working OK. But today tennistv is just as bad. I tried opening it in IE and it wouldn't start playing at all. At the moment I'm watching a stream of SkySportsNews which seemed fine at first but is now buffering really badly too. What could be wrong? I've run a bandwidth test and I have plenty of bandwidth.
yesterday i couldn't watch tennistv.com at all as it just kept buffering. I found another stream and that seemed to be working ok. But today tennistv is just as bad. I tried opening it in ie and it wouldn't start playing at all. At the moment i'm watching a stream of skysportsnews which seemed fine at first but is now buffering really badly too. What could be wrong? I've run a bandwidth test and i have plenty of bandwidth.i would be inclinedto blame servr side issues,but woudnt do any harm to clear temp files (cache) & the java tempory files (through control panel>> java/flashplayer> advanced delete files
I've done those things and it hasn't helped. There is another problem too that's been happening for the past few days which may or may not be related. You know when your cursor changes to a double-headed arrow for changing the size of your window? Well lately it keeps getting stuck like that. The only way to clear it is by doing Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
OK I was ages on the online chat to the help on tennistv. They had me check all sorts of things, uninstall and reinstall flash, and none of it helped.
Then Sean came home from work and changed the router again. It's fine again now. We'd had that router for less than two months. This must be the ninth or tenth router I've had since I've had broadband. Why on earth, I wonder, do they not last?
I have eventually managed to get a BIOS battery in my laptop :) But the guys in the shop had to take my laptop to bits to get at it as it was very inaccessible. It wasn't just a case of unscrewing a few screws at the back of the laptop. So it wasn't cheap :crying:. They said manufacturers do it on purpose to encourage people buying new laptops!
I have eventually managed to get a BIOS battery in my laptop :) But the guys in the shop had to take my laptop to bits to get at it as it was very inaccessible. It wasn't just a case of unscrewing a few screws at the back of the laptop. So it wasn't cheap :crying:. They said manufacturers do it on purpose to encourage people buying new laptops!did it solve the problem ?
VamosVixs
05-11-2011, 15:32
When I go on some websites and somtimes I have to fill in a captcha box. Why is it this box does not appear on my pc? It appears on my laptop no problems there. :confused:
galagirl
06-11-2011, 09:38
just curious - what is a "captcha" box? :confused:
just curious - what is a "captcha" box? :confused:completely automatic public Turin test to tel computers and humans apart
in other words the little picture thing with random leters that you have to type in to join some web sites
VamosVixs
06-11-2011, 11:06
Just realised I posted in the wrong thread. Mods, please feel free to move to 'Technical Woes'. :oops:
did it solve the problem ?
It has solved the BIOS date problem :) and I also have a clean keyboard and quiet fan :)
The big battery has not arrived yet.
:help: My laptop saga continues.
I am down at my Dad's again and cannot get wireless internet to work. The shop had taken my laptop to bits to get the BIOS battery in last week.
If I put my laptop in the normal place I use it, it doesn't register that there is a wireless internet at all. If I put my laptop a couple of feet from the router sometimes I get a signal but not most of the time. It does register on my laptop that there is wireless around though but states no signal.
My internet access is fine when connected via a cable, which is what I do at home.
Someone else can get wireless internet access with the same router with another laptop at the other end of the house!!!!
I now have my new main battery, so will put that on but I can't see why that would change anything.
Is it possible that they could have done something to interfere with my wireless internet access when taking laptop to bits to change the bios battery??? :help:
Speedy Hawk
10-11-2011, 14:38
Make sure there network isn't set up twice by accident (it happens to my sister twice with wireless, she was able to connect very close range and won't work normal range). Check by going to "Control Panel", (if your control panel is sorted by category then click on "Network and Internet"), then "Networking and Sharing Center", then on left side "Manage wireless networks" and check the list. If you got more than one same network then remove it.
If that don't work or you only got one network there then remove it and add it back on again clicking on wireless icon right side desktop bar to connect.
Hope it works............
Thanks Speedy. This one was not doubled up, but there were some redundant ones not in use.
I zapped all of them and recreated the one for this router (twice). I can access wireless close to router (about 2 feet away) but still not in the other rooms I usually use my laptop. :grrr: :grrr:
my first suggestion would be to uninstall the drivers for your wireless card and reinstall them (i would check & download them from the manufactures first ) its possible they have been corrupted
as for is it possible they have dislodge/damaged your network card while solving your bios problem , i would say its very possible the fact it works at close range suggests they may have done summit to the antenna (built in)
oops forgot to say reboot lappy between uninstall and reinstall
Thanks Jay. I telephoned the guys who put in my BIOS battery. They said that my laptop has 2 antennae connected to my wireless card and that all that area was moved when they had to take my laptop to bits to put the BIOS battery in, so they admitted it was quite possible its the antennae. So I'll have to take my laptop back to them when I get home next week :(
it dose seem the most likely answer, in the meantime deepening on your type of laptop and availability of stores in your current location you could get a PCMCIA wifi card for around a tenner
Got my laptop fixed :):)
When they opened the laptop up the wires from the 2 antennae were not attached to the wireless card!!!!!!! I'm surprised I got a signal at all close up to the router. I just hope the wires stay in place as they did not look that firmly fixed. I'll have to take the laptop back and get them more permanently fixed on if they fall off.
Speedy Hawk
19-11-2011, 13:12
Hope it works now?
Hope it works now?
So do I. It worked in the shop. However I can't test it until I go back down to my Dad's. I only use cable internet at home.
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 17:46
My laptop has died .... I was in a hurry yesterday trying to get it to come on and it wasn't keen to boot up - had to give up as we were running late, thought I'd forced shut down but when we got home later in the day it seemed to still be on. Closed it down, powered it up and it wouldn't let me enter the password - windows booted up to the login screen but the mouse wouldn't respond, nor would the keyboard. Switched it off again and now it won't do anything at all - when you press the power button, the Toshiba screen appears but it won't respond to any keys being pressed for menus, and then it goes to a black screen with the cursor top left but not flashing .... any ideas? :help:
:grouphug: Jane. What a pain. Once I couldn't get my laptop to switch on so someone suggested removing the battery and putting it back and that worked.
Weird
first thing i would do is remove battery and power lead leave it for ten then try it again
if that dosnt do anything do you have a copy of windows ?
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 18:40
Trying the battery/power removal - no disks with windows on though - came pre-loaded ...
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 18:48
Nope - just been through the box of disks ....
arg see what happens when you put bat back in
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 18:51
I'm just away to serve up dinner so hopefully the long rest will help and it'll be ok when I put the battery back in .... says she crossing everything! (that'll make serving up the chicken a challenge :rolling:)
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 19:15
:yahoo: it worked :thanks: for your help :big grin:
you should create your self a recovery disk now you have it working
hfwardhouse
20-11-2011, 20:27
That's a great idea .... erm how do I do that?! :shamed:
your laptop would have come with a separate pation with(most do) which will have a app for creating a recovery disk
otherwise go to Backup and Restore Center, the pane on the left contains options to create a system image (a factory restore of Windows 7) and to create a System Repair Disk
I'm back down at my Dad's and the wireless is working :yahoo: :yahoo:
Good news, Cazza! :thumbup:
I'm back down at my Dad's and the wireless is working :yahoo: :yahoo:
Yay! :yahoo:
I can't get Firefox to load and get this message.
I'm a bit worried about uninstalling and reinstalling cos I may lose my bookmarks. Or would I lose them?
I remember getting some message coming up on my laptop asking me which addons I want to keep or delete (which I have never seen before) - and wonder if this caused it.
AvailableVirtualMemory: 2019270656
BuildID: 20110928134238
CrashTime: 1322396999
Email:
InstallTime: 1317833401
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 394
StartupTime: 1322396998
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 55
Throttleable: 1
TotalVirtualMemory: 2147352576
URL:
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 7.0.1
This report also contains technical information about
the state of the application when it crashed.
KnightOwl
27-11-2011, 12:46
I'm not sure about the message above, but you can backup the bookmarks yourself, so that you can restore them if they are lost when you reinstall the browser.
They're stored in a folder called places.sqlite in your Firefox profile - you can open this by selecting Help->Troubleshooting information from Firefox, then you should see a button which will open your profile folder in explorer, so you can take a manual copy of the places.sqlite file.
Once you've uninstalled and reinstalled, it should just be a case of navigating back to the profile folder and replacing the default places file with the one you backed up.
Edit: if Firefox won't start up at all, so you can't get to the menu, you should be able to search for the profile folder - it will be in your application data somehere, probably under Mozilla - easiet is probably to search for places.sqlite as that file name should be pretty unique.
VamosVixs
27-11-2011, 12:48
I'm sure when I had problems a few months ago, I uninstalled and reinstalled and my bookmarks were still there.
I can't get Firefox to load and get this message.
I'm a bit worried about uninstalling and reinstalling cos I may lose my bookmarks. Or would I lose them?
I remember getting some message coming up on my laptop asking me which addons I want to keep or delete (which I have never seen before) - and wonder if this caused it.you would lose them, what you could try is going to IE and import them from Firefox
i take it you updated firefox recently , sounds like one of your add on is conflicting
you could try rolling the laptop back a day or so then remove your add ons manually ,
Thanks guys. I couldn't load Firefox to get to menu and couldn't find the places.sqlite file.
However when I went to uninstall there was a tick box and it let me keep personal data. It kept the bookmarks when I uninstalled and reinstalled :):):)
Speedy Hawk
27-11-2011, 14:07
Yay wireless working for you. Great bookmark still there.
KnightOwl
27-11-2011, 15:46
That's great Cazza - finally a sensible uninstaller :big grin:
Sallydaisy
30-11-2011, 10:14
Hmmm ...
When I loaded up Mozilla Firefox this morning all was fine and it loaded my home page which is Google.
For some reason I've now got an extra blue bar relating to Google+ with some add-ons to the normal Google bar - to the left a +You and to the right a new 'Sign in' prompt alongside a white cog wheel.
I hate 'busy' screens...
Do I need Google+ and if I don't how do I get rid of this?
Anyone got any advice?
:hmm:
Google+ is Google's attempt at their own Facebook. You can usually customise these toolbars using the options button, but I can't help specifically as I don't like toolbars meself.
Hmmm ...
When I loaded up Mozilla Firefox this morning all was fine and it loaded my home page which is Google.
For some reason I've now got an extra blue bar relating to Google+ with some add-ons to the normal Google bar - to the left a +You and to the right a new 'Sign in' prompt alongside a white cog wheel.
I hate 'busy' screens...
Do I need Google+ and if I don't how do I get rid of this?
Anyone got any advice?
:hmm:well if you didnt ask for it then you dont need it
to get rid of it will take one of two things you either click view and uptick google +
or you go to add on and disable remove it
one or other should work im just not sure if its a toolbar as such or a add on
Because I'd been having a few problems with hotmail, I decided a while ago that I'd use my gmail account instead. But I couldn't log in. I went through all the normal channels re forgotten login but they decided that I hadn't proved that it was my account so I couldn't use it. (NB my full name is very uncommon so very unlikely that someone else has it) So I left it for then. Then today I thought, well I'll try again but use my Twitter name instead. But again I'm told that that username is already in use :confused:
ETA - OK I have now tried every possible combination of my first name or initial and surname, stuff like lindalinda etc., but every time it tells me that username is already in use :confused:
ETA - I've now managed to set up an account by putting iam in front of my usual login name. Still had problems with password, though, it wouldn't accept any of the ones I normally use :rolleyes:
I subscribed to Eurosport Player last night, so I can watch matches not on the main channels.
However when I am trying to go full screen I get a "silverlight" error. A silverlight box comes up asking me if I wish to keep the fullscreen up all the time and then my computer hangs and I get an error message saying that silverlight has crashed.
The Eurosport player help section is telling people having silverlight problems to email a printscreen of their graphic info to their support which is what I have done and I am awaiting their reply. Thought I had better mention it in case anyone else has these problems. I hope they can resolve it.
This is what the Eurosport help page says
The error you are experiencing with the "Full Screen" functionality is probably due to a compatibility problem between your graphic /audio card and Microsoft Silverlight technology used by Eurosport Player.
Update - no reply from Eurosport at all, but I have managed to get it to work in another browser - IE :):)
I subscribed to Eurosport Player last night, so I can watch matches not on the main channels.
However when I am trying to go full screen I get a "silverlight" error. A silverlight box comes up asking me if I wish to keep the fullscreen up all the time and then my computer hangs and I get an error message saying that silverlight has crashed.
The Eurosport player help section is telling people having silverlight problems to email a printscreen of their graphic info to their support which is what I have done and I am awaiting their reply. Thought I had better mention it in case anyone else has these problems. I hope they can resolve it.
This is what the Eurosport help page saysyou tried a Microsoft update o
Ive just purchased a new hard drive , and last night I couldnt get any of the usual livestreams to work . I had sound , but no picture , soo frustrating !!!! :grrr:
Im not that computer savy , do any of you know why this might be ?
you tried a Microsoft update o
No but I have had a big Windows 7 update very recently - woudn't updates come with that?
supossedly it should but dosnt always work that way, if it is silverlight thats caussing the problem then its worthwhile seeing if there is an update for it .failing that you colud uninstall it (might give you the option to repair it )
is it firefox you use it works fine on mine
Ive just purchased a new hard drive , and last night I couldnt get any of the usual livestreams to work . I had sound , but no picture , soo frustrating !!!! :grrr:
Im not that computer savy , do any of you know why this might be ?do you mean you added an addition hard drive to your computer ? the only think i could think of is that perhaps who ever installed it has knocked and reseated your graphics card maybe crashing the drivers(but that's clutching at straws) wouldn't do any harm to look for an update for them tho just in case
if you mean you have swapped hard drives then it is very feasible that who ever reformatted your computer failed/forgot to add the graphics drivers and you are running on some generic microsoft one again looking for an update wouldnt go amiss
third option is the two things are unrelated and you are adding 2 =2 to get 5
if the above fails to work try a different browser
supossedly it should but dosnt always work that way, if it is silverlight thats caussing the problem then its worthwhile seeing if there is an update for it .failing that you colud uninstall it (might give you the option to repair it )
is it firefox you use it works fine on mine
I seem to remember a recent optional update for silverlight.
Edit: It was only a security one in October, last actual update I can find was Sep '10
supossedly it should but dosnt always work that way, if it is silverlight thats caussing the problem then its worthwhile seeing if there is an update for it .failing that you colud uninstall it (might give you the option to repair it )
is it firefox you use it works fine on mine
Yup it is Firefox v 9 I've got.
do you mean you added an addition hard drive to your computer ? the only think i could think of is that perhaps who ever installed it has knocked and reseated your graphics card maybe crashing the drivers(but that's clutching at straws) wouldn't do any harm to look for an update for them tho just in case
if you mean you have swapped hard drives then it is very feasible that who ever reformatted your computer failed/forgot to add the graphics drivers and you are running on some generic microsoft one again looking for an update wouldnt go amiss
third option is the two things are unrelated and you are adding 2 =2 to get 5
if the above fails to work try a different browser
thanks much J
stream is working wooohooo :yahoo:
stream is working wooohooo :yahoo:you have to do anything ?
not sure what I did to be honest :rolling:
a friend told me to go into programs and make sure nothing was being blocked , so I did and clicked a few things and * voila *
Afer I have been on-line for a while my screen starts flickering and sometimes I get the banner/url bar/tab bars which should be at the top of my screen scrolling down. The only way I can find to stop it is to switch off my laptop. Any ideas anyone?
edit: the screen starts flickering/scrolling out of my browser too.
Browser problem? Which browser are you using?
Afer I have been on-line for a while my screen starts flickering and sometimes I get the banner/url bar/tab bars which should be at the top of my screen scrolling down. The only way I can find to stop it is to switch off my laptop. Any ideas anyone?
edit: the screen starts flickering/scrolling out of my browser too.is it only on line it happens & how longs is a while
I am in Firefox.
The flickering/scrolling has always started when I am in Firefox, but I ususally go into Firefox nearly immediately after switching laptop on. It often happened after 5-30 minutes yesterday. Its not happened tonight yet though.
Sallydaisy
09-03-2012, 19:25
I can't get Twitter to load up - anyone else having trouble?
Not having a problem with any other websites.
:confused:
I can't get Twitter to load up - anyone else having trouble?
Not having a problem with any other websites.
:confused:
mine is OK
Just logged in, seems fine to me. But you posted 38 minutes ago so I assume it's OK for you too now.
Sallydaisy
09-03-2012, 23:04
Lots better thanks! But it keeps saying I've 40+ new tweets when there's only 3 or 4.
:rolleyes:
Maza1987
11-03-2012, 22:24
when I visit a thread, how come it does not go to the last post I read and instead always starts at the first post?
You need to click on the little dot before the thread title to go to the first unread post.
VamosVixs
12-03-2012, 17:54
On facebook I have notifications that friends have posted on my timeline, however when I go there, nothing is showing?
I don't think anyone would have anything to say to you today!
Actually, I noticed that your Timeline was bare when I checked it this morning. Have you checked it's publishing permissions?
VamosVixs
12-03-2012, 18:08
Had a look at settings etc but can't see anything? My timeline is totally bare but I know I have posts from friends there from my notifications. Not a fan of this new timeline.
There are some Timeline settings on the Privacy tab, check that they aren't set to "Only me".
VamosVixs
12-03-2012, 18:26
Nope they are set to friends and friends of friends. It's broke! :surrender::shrug:
Nope they are set to friends and friends of friends. It's broke! :surrender::shrug:have you just chnged over, my mrs has and she is having problems these things are often a bit flaky when they rollout
Nope they are set to friends and friends of friends. It's broke! :surrender::shrug:I'm seeing birthday greetings on your Timeline now... but nothing else!
VamosVixs
12-03-2012, 19:11
have you just chnged over, my mrs has and she is having problems these things are often a bit flaky when they rollout
No changed a month or 2 ago.
I'm seeing birthday greetings on your Timeline now... but nothing else!
I'm still seeing nothing. :sad:
JAMES4578
12-03-2012, 19:17
I'm seeing birthday greetings on your Timeline now... but nothing else!
No changed a month or 2 ago.
I'm still seeing nothing. :sad:
I'm not seeing anything either Vixs, was wondering why my message hadn't appeared. Though I haven't had problems with the Timeline myself.
Every time I look I see something different now...
hfwardhouse
12-03-2012, 19:37
I'm seeing all your messages .... James has sent you two :lol:
Maybe Twitter has different settings for old folk?
Agreed, shame she's talking about Facebook...
JAMES4578
12-03-2012, 20:38
I've logged out and back in again, hey presto I can now see the birthday messages! Ally we're talking about Facebook!
Fair enough. My :shamed:. I don't do Facebook and never will.
Agreed, shame she's talking about Facebook...
:laugh::laugh:
I've given up trying to fathom FB - you rescued me in Glasgow Hawks, when I didn't have the latest version. At least I've got that but the settings seem to change daily!
I made one of my rare visits to Facebook the other day and couldn't find my way round it at all. And I've hardly been on Twitter since it changed, either. Why can't they leave things alone? *sigh*
Anybody have any experience with BT Broadband / Homehub 3.0? - tearing my hair out already and it's only been a couple of days.
I'd been with my current ISP for several years but it started getting slower and slower recently until I was barely getting 1Mbps and thought enough was enough - (the bt "estimate" for the line is 5-6 Meg.)
BT had replaced the cable to the house last year so that's ok and I had checked the speed into the main box bypassing the house wiring and it made little difference so I decided that my dusty old router was past it and time for a new shiny one.
I decided to go with BT for the free wi-fi time you get, so you can go and park outside somebody's house late at night who's got BTFOn activated on their router.
Anyway the shiny new Homehub arrived, and after a few days without internet (long story and basic schoolgirl error on my part) i got it up and running.
I know there is an initial 10 day stabilisation period - but it's supposed to settle down after the first hour or so. I was gutted when instead of the 4 meg or so I was hoping for, it was even slower than before. In fact testing it last night the upload speed was even faster than the download speed!
And worse still the wireless coverage is pants! - my old b/g router upstairs in a bedroom would give an "excellent" coverage and full bars through most of the house.
Now the new shiny wireless 'n' homehub gives me one bar at most in the same location - i'd even got a new wireless n card for the laptop specially as I believed it was the holy grail - but instead of connecting at the supposed 130 MBps it's around 40 which is also less than the old setup.
So does anybody have any experience of the 10 day period with BT and how much the speed can actually fluctuate, and also with the homehub 3.0 and how to get a decent signal from it?
cheers
What a pain, Rondun! For starters, I'm no techy - far from it. But......I think we had a similar experience recently when we changed to faster broadband and had to have a new router (modem???). Anyway BT had to provide and fit it and do the broadband upgrade to fibreoptic at our socket. The engineer tested it and told us we now had whatever (can't remember but it was supposed to be way faster). We then tried it after he'd left and like you, it was slower. Called him back - watched him test it at the socket and it said it was faster. In the end he said we needed to contact our ISP which we did and (now this is where you'll have to excuse me for being even more vague) it turned out to be something they had to do at their end to make the service compatible with what BT had done at our end. Anyway, suffice to say it worked. So it could be something similar in your case.
Otherwise if BT is your ISP I can only offer my sympathy - we wouldn't touch BT with a bargepole as an ISP after past experiences too numerous and long to recount!
Cheers Pabbers,
Router/modem/homehub = all the same thing as far as i'm concerned - plus I can only dream of fibreoptic bb!
Still in the good ol' "up to 8MB but in reality you'll get nowhere near that" broadband with promises of ADSL2+ in the future
Although this isn't what I wanted to hear after signing up to 18 months with them!...
Otherwise if BT is your ISP I can only offer my sympathy - we wouldn't touch BT with a bargepole as an ISP after past experiences too numerous and long to recount!
Never really had any issues with my old provider other than the slow speed and they said there was nothing they could do about that.
What convinced me to go to BT was the free wifi at openzone hotspots as I spent a fortune on mobile broadband last year when all I really needed it for was checking emails and doing a bit of surfing.
Wonder if anybody has used their BT internet to connect to BTFON / openzone? - be interested to see how good it is in reality.
Anyway - day 2 update for anybody going through the same thing (and for my complaint diary when it all goes wrong!)
First off, I accidentally figured out how to increase the connection from a homehub 3 - simple put it on an upstairs floor and knock it over so its lying flat facing down and not at the jaunty angle BT would like you to look at it! - Result: "poor" 45Mbps connection jumps to an "Excellent" 130.0 Mbps when connected from downstairs where I use it most.
After achieving a top speed of about 1.2 meg on day 1 and a low of about 0.4 in the evening, testing increased to 2.4 initially on day 2 to 5.7 in the afternoon - with a 6.3 max. (which is higher that the BT estimate for the line)
Weird thing was, at first I had it plugged straight into the master socket to see if it would stabilise at a higher speed, then moved it onto an extension socket in a more convenient location at night.
I'm guessing these speeds will come back down again as the line finds a "stable" speed over the 10 day period.
BTW- i'm using the thinkbroadband speedtest the most, as although it usually gives a lower speed than some of the other "burst" speed tests, I think it's more consistent and gives a more accurate result representative of what you get when you're using the net.
Anyway today for the first time in a long while I could actually watch youtube videos and iplayer without waiting for the buffering sign to appear!
I think it was Catherine who was always complaining about the problems she had with BT Home Hub. Perhaps ask her? She doesn't seem to come on here any more but she's on Twitter (@CathTuckwell). Or was it Speedy?
Glad thing are looking up. Don't really understand about the BT openzone and you having paid for mobile broadband. We can use any open wifi network (be it BT openzone or otherwise) anywhere (including abroad) on our netbook or android phones without paying a penny. It's probably me being stupid and not getting the point.......
Speedy Hawk
13-03-2012, 18:36
I think it was Catherine who was always complaining about the problems she had with BT Home Hub. Perhaps ask her? She doesn't seem to come on here any more but she's on Twitter (@CathTuckwell). Or was it Speedy?
Not me cos I don't have BT.
Internet speed always changing up or down. Virgin does same. Very slow sometimes and medium okay and rarely fast good speed.
Glad thing are looking up. Don't really understand about the BT openzone and you having paid for mobile broadband.Had a mobile broadband dongle for the laptop - but it can be fairly expensive if you're just using it for checking the odd email
We can use any open wifi network (be it BT openzone or otherwise) anywhere (including abroad) on our netbook or android phones without paying a penny. I would love to know how you manage that - BT Openzone currently charge £28 for 500 international wi-fi minutes over 14 days!!
Looks like I spoke too soon anyway, the speed is back down to 1/10th what it was this morning - I hope this isn't a sign of things to come or me and the woman in the call centre who doesn't speak English are going to have a problematic conversation
I've just found that my hotmail account sent out a rogue email yesterday to all of my contacts. I've no idea how it happened as I didn't even look at hotmail yesterday. :confused: Anyway, I've changed my password.
VamosVixs
30-03-2012, 18:50
That happened to me a while back, and it kept on happening no matter how many times I changed my password. Also got tons and tons of spam so I stopped using hotmail.
That happened to me a while back, and it kept on happening no matter how many times I changed my password. Also got tons and tons of spam so I stopped using hotmail.ye web based email is a nightmare
I'm just about to set up skyanytime+ as it has been offered to me free by Sky.
I don't use a wireless router and instead I have a cable going from my router to my lounge which I use for my laptop. However I am also going to need a cable connection for my sky+ box and I only have one cable connection in the lounge.
Does anyone know - if I want to use my laptop and view Sky anytime+ at the same time, is the only solution to get another cable wired up from my router or is there something else I can do?
I'm just about to set up skyanytime+ as it has been offered to me free by Sky.
I don't use a wireless router and instead I have a cable going from my router to my lounge which I use for my laptop. However I am also going to need a cable connection for my sky+ box and I only have one cable connection in the lounge.
Does anyone know - if I want to use my laptop and view Sky anytime+ at the same time, is the only solution to get another cable wired up from my router or is there something else I can do?you could use the existing cable to a switch in the lounge then run two shorter cables from that
just an example of a switch (http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&ds=pr&pq=switchport&cp=6&gs_id=1br&xhr=t&q=switch&safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&bs=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10717918782846641269&sa=X&ei=mESWT-PuNInP8QPv2YWYCg&sqi=2&ved=0CIABEPMCMAE) (not a product recommendation)
I take it you mean I can run 2 separate internet connections from that one switch. Didn't realise you could do that. Does it slow the internet down when using both at the same time?
Sallydaisy
24-04-2012, 21:42
Something weird is going on with my web browser.
I'm currently working in Mozilla Firefox which is my default. I've been working so away from my computer for 2/3 hours and I've just come back to look something up on google.
But it won't load up the browser page at all ...
Even this from my favourites - http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/
"The requested URL /firefox/ was not found on this server."
:confused:
When I open a new tab or window and click on the Firefox Home key, or the Firefox start icon on my desktop it comes up with a 404 'not found on this server'. But it's clearly working or I wouldn't be able to continue to send messages in here 'cos AMFF is loaded in FF. I've just opened a new tab and loaded the BBC website using a link in my Bookmarks and that worked AOK. I also typed google direct into the top search bar and it loaded up.
Anyone have any clues?
I've not uninstalled anything and it was fine 3hrs ago ......
KnightOwl
24-04-2012, 22:26
Not sure, but I suspect the problem is their end (ie Firefox) because I get the same error when I click on your link above. Maybe they've changed the URL of their start page? Seems unlikely, because you'd expect them to do that as part of an upgrade, but possible.
I don't use their default homepage, though, I use google, so I can't be sure.
You could try waiting til tomorrow and see if it fixes itself, or you could try updating Firefox to make sure you're on the latest version?
Sallydaisy
25-04-2012, 07:26
You could try waiting til tomorrow and see if it fixes itself, or you could try updating Firefox to make sure you're on the latest version?
Hmm, well I've updated Firefox which cleared my cache.
This morning I clicked on the Mozilla shortcut (the old one) and it comes up with
"Not Found The requested URL /firefox was not found on this server."
What used to come up was the Google search page as my default 'home' page.
However, Firefox is loaded because to get into here all I had to do was click on the bookmarks as usual. The updated version does not like my webmail provider in advanced mode, only in basic (i.e. all browsers) and that's a bit of a pain. So, presumably it is to do with resetting something that connects FF to Google so it comes up as it used to.
As I'm working today I've no time to look into this until later this afternoon ...
:sad:
EDIT:
Got rid of the annoying 404 by setting FF to open with "a blank page" instead of "my home page" ...
EDIT:
Ooooh, think I've fixed it ... saved google url as home page link.
:phew:
KnightOwl
25-04-2012, 12:59
What used to come up was the Google search page as my default 'home' page.
Ah - yes, me too - I thought you were saying you used the default Firefox one before...
However, Firefox is loaded because...
Yes, Firefox is the browser application, so in theory it should always "load" whether it's connected to anything or not...
EDIT:
Ooooh, think I've fixed it ... saved google url as home page link.
:phew:
Well done you :big grin: Just what I was about to suggest having read the above...
As if I didn't have enough rubbish clogging up my hotmail inbox, I am now also receiving things that people have posted on Facebook! Goodness knows why - I haven't changed any settings on Facebook. :grrr:
Oh, and despite the fact that I have selected not to have Twitter forward stuff to my phone (I only do that temporarily whilst I'm away) it's still texting me every day to tell me how many mentions I have :confused:
Facebook has a bit of a reputation for either ignoring settings or or changing them completely. I didn't think Twitter was generally as bad - maybe it's worth contacting them to ask what's going on?
My volume icon has disappeared off the bottom right of my laptop. :crying: :help: Any ideas anyone?
I think it may have happened when I was watching a short video clip and adjusted the volume on the clip, but not 100% sure.
- I have clicked on the uparrow to show hidden icons. There is no volume icon there.
- I have cicked on customize and it lists the volume in the list, but there is no icon beside although it is set to "show icon and notifications"
- I have gone into "turn system icons on and off". The volume one is set to off, but it won't let me set it to on.
KnightOwl
30-05-2012, 12:38
Hmmm...I saw your post in iSpy and came over here to make a couple of suggestions - but I can see from the full post that you've already tried everything I thought of!
The only other thing I can come up with,if you haven't already done so, is to try a reboot?
Thanks. It happened yesterday and is still like it after I switched laptop off. Ugh.
Its decided to come back all on its own this afternoon :yahoo:
jamie&andy's fan
02-07-2012, 00:32
Can anyone help? I need to change my hotmail password but I can't everytime I try nothing works ! It's really upsetting me because someone hacked into one of my friends accounts so i NEED to do it but I'm stuck ! :'(
Speedy Hawk
04-07-2012, 17:03
Have you try go on www.hotmail.com
Then click on "Can't access your account?"
jamie&andy's fan
05-07-2012, 19:23
Have you try go on www.hotmail.com
Then click on "Can't access your account?"
Yeah it doesnt seem to work :(
I noticed today that it says on the BBC website that Wimbledon can be seen on HD by anyone with Freeview (I know, it's the end of the tournament and I've only just noticed). After digging around on the site, it seems that the BBC HD channels are 50-55. I have a fairly new Freeview HD TV but my channel list goes from 49 to 60, skipping the 50's. Do I need to get it to search for channels yet again (I've already had to do it twice this year)?
I'd give it a shot, but if they're not showing up check to make sure HD is available in your area (http://freeview.co.uk/HD)
On another note BBC keep hyping the final in 3D but they're only showing it from 3:30pm.
Can't say I'd be happy if I just forked out the cash for all the gear and could see it from half-way through
I noticed today that it says on the BBC website that Wimbledon can be seen on HD by anyone with Freeview (I know, it's the end of the tournament and I've only just noticed). After digging around on the site, it seems that the BBC HD channels are 50-55. I have a fairly new Freeview HD TV but my channel list goes from 49 to 60, skipping the 50's. Do I need to get it to search for channels yet again (I've already had to do it twice this year)?
Is your freeview HD? I know you need both a HD tv and freeview box (although if it is built in then you should be ok.)
Is your freeview HD? I know you need both a HD tv and freeview box (although if it is built in then you should be ok.)
Don't you need a special 3D TV?
Don't you need a special 3D TV?To watch 3D, yes but Linda's just asking about HD.
Although if your transmitter isn't broadcasting an HD signal it makes no difference what kind of TV you have. Most of them are now I think but not all.
An HD tv with Freeview generally will only have normal Freeview, unless it specifically says Freeview HD.
Thanks for all your replies. I wonder why anyone would make an HD TV with built in Freeview and not make the Freeview HD? :confused:
Thanks for all your replies. I wonder why anyone would make an HD TV with built in Freeview and not make the Freeview HD? :confused:
I guess it's cheaper to make them that way. Still no excuse, mind...
Yep - and HD TV's were around long before Freeview HD
- You can pick up a freeview HD box for around £30 - I got one from Tesco's
Sallydaisy
19-07-2012, 12:35
Botnet closed - thought this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18898971) might be of interest to those who get spam a lot.
hfwardhouse
16-08-2012, 20:10
Can anyone help with why my laptop has started switching itself off .... it just does it without warning and just powers off completely. It did it in the middle of Andy's match tonight - while I was watching :grrr:
On mains power or battery power?
hfwardhouse
16-08-2012, 20:29
Mains .... I'm nae that daft ;)
patmoren
16-08-2012, 20:30
Another possibilty is that your fan is going home and the laptop is closing because it is getting too hot. See if you can feel the fan working.
Another possibilty is that your fan is going home and the laptop is closing because it is getting too hot. See if you can feel the fan working.sounds like a possability , my crazy question to Jane would be ars you interacting with the laptop as you watch the stream ? If you are just watching perhaps your power settings are set to close down(hibernation) after x amount time of inactivity
hfwardhouse
16-08-2012, 21:56
It's not just happening when there's a livestream open though .... I was in the middle of a game on FB last week when it happened .... fan is working right now and seems to be fine. When it closed down tonight it hadn't been on that long cos I'd only been home about 20 minutes.
You may have noticed that iSpy isn't quite playing ball today. We're hard at work trying to fix it, but in the meantime you can use the following link instead:
http://www.andymurrayfanforum.com/forums/vaispy.php?do=xml
It's not just happening when there's a livestream open though .... I was in the middle of a game on FB last week when it happened .... fan is working right now and seems to be fine. When it closed down tonight it hadn't been on that long cos I'd only been home about 20 minutes.
Don't know if you've sorted this out yet but like Pat says it sounds like a heat problem. You may want to find out the maximum operating temperature of your processor and graphics card/chip, then download a program like HWMonitor. Keep it open whilst using your laptop and see what your temperatures are. If they're close to the maximum that's very likely your problem.
hfwardhouse
17-08-2012, 20:01
Don't know if you've sorted this out yet but like Pat says it sounds like a heat problem. You may want to find out the maximum operating temperature of your processor and graphics card/chip, then download a program like HWMonitor. Keep it open whilst using your laptop and see what your temperatures are. If they're close to the maximum that's very likely your problem.
How do I find out the max operating temps? Apologies for ignorance but never need to know that before!!!
should be in you manual, tho to be honest with a laptop you should be able to tell if its getting to hot it will feel very warm to the touch underneath
How do I find out the max operating temps? Apologies for ignorance but never need to know that before!!!
If you know the name of the processor and graphic card/chip (should be in your laptop manual) google searching the name followed by max temperature should do it.
Edit: There's this site http://www.cpu-world.com/ where you can look up your processor info.
:help: My microphone on my laptop does not work.
I think I did something stupid to try and mute the inbuilt microphone on my laptop the other day. Not sure what I did. Think I went into manage audio devices and recording. And when I clicked on something it said "uninstalled" which was unexpected. So I think I have uninstalled something in error. Cos I can't get it to work on Skype. Tried to do a test on Skype and it says no sound card. No microphone listed on Skype.
Any ideas on how to get my microphone working again? I have tried plugging in a headset and that does not work either.
You probably need to reinstall the audio drivers for your laptop
Thanks. How would I do that?
Depends on your laptop, operating system etc. If you have the cd you can use that (but they may be old)
Or go to your laptop manufacturers website and search for drivers for your laptop & download & install the latest audio driver.
Or probably the easiest just type "audio driver for 'your laptop here'" into that great chocolate based internet guru that is Gu Ghul.
Downloaded from the site, but still not working
hmmm.
so - what operating system are you using?
Is the microphone working in anything other than skype (if you have xp you can try sound recorder under accessories - not sure about others)
Can you hear things ok in skype?
when you say "Think I went into manage audio devices and recording." was that in the control panel or in skype itself?
I have Windows 7, which I have never really had much time to suss out.
It was the control panel where I went into audio devices. I was about to go into a Webinair and was told I had to mute my microphone. Didn't realise at the time that there would be an option to do this within the Webinair software so fumbled around and tried to do it in control panel - I was in a rush as the Webinair was about to start.
I can hear things OK.
I can hear someone connected to Skype but they cannot hear me.
I'm rapidly running out of ideas since I don't have access to windows 7 right now but the only thing I can suggest is to go back into the recording settings and see if you can find the device in there- e.g. ac97 audio or whatever (but I guess you've already done that)
I have Windows 7, which I have never really had much time to suss out.
It was the control panel where I went into audio devices. I was about to go into a Webinair and was told I had to mute my microphone. Didn't realise at the time that there would be an option to do this within the Webinair software so fumbled around and tried to do it in control panel - I was in a rush as the Webinair was about to start.
I can hear things OK.
I can hear someone connected to Skype but they cannot hear me.
You may have already checked this but is the microphone disabled? Right click on the speaker icon on your taskbar, select 'Recording devices'. There should be a microphone icon. If it says it's diabled right click on it and selecting enable should fix your problem.
If the microphone icon isn't there, right click on any icon that is there and make sure that the 'Show disconnected devices' and 'Show disabled devices' are ticked. If the microphone icon doesn't show up then I'm not sure what else you can do if you've already installed the audio driver.
have you tried the function keys if you look on your keypad you will see various blue icons look for one that looks microphoney ;) if you press it along with the Function key(FN) that should enable it presuming its turned off otherwise
have you tried device manager( bring up a run box and type mmc devmgt.and) in there you will find all hardware your microphone should be listed there by selecting it you should be able to enable,/disable it or update drivers if necessary
:thanks: Thanks guys. Its showing now :)
If the microphone icon isn't there, right click on any icon that is there and make sure that the 'Show disconnected devices' and 'Show disabled devices' are ticked. If the microphone icon doesn't show up then I'm not sure what else you can do if you've already installed the audio driver.
I right clicked on any icon and one of these was not ticked - 'Show disconnected devices' and 'Show disabled devices', and so I ticked it and have managed to get it back once it showed up.
Having been thinking for some time of what to buy (in order to keep up with tennis news etc. whilst away - I don't think it's worth paying the monthly fee for a smartphone), I had more or less decided to get a 7" Android tablet. But I read the other day that Flash Player will no longer be updated for Android - so does that mean that there is no point in getting one after all?
Sallydaisy
26-08-2012, 11:42
is anyone having trouble with twitter? When I checked it late last night it appeared really odd - all spread out and only 3 tweets viewable a page. I was too tired to look for problems then but I don't recall changing any settings. It's also very slow to load up.
:confused:
Having been thinking for some time of what to buy (in order to keep up with tennis news etc. whilst away - I don't think it's worth paying the monthly fee for a smartphone), I had more or less decided to get a 7" Android tablet. But I read the other day that Flash Player will no longer be updated for Android - so does that mean that there is no point in getting one after all?
Not sure about the flash issue...I thought most websites are changing to html 5 or something. But I just bought a 64gb blackberry playbook for £129 in pc world...might be an option?
VamosVixs
01-09-2012, 17:58
Does anyone know why my flash player keeps on disappearing? I have to keep re-installing it. :confused:
Flash is having major issues in Firefox at the moment.
VamosVixs
01-09-2012, 18:08
Hope they fix it soon then as I don't want to use another browser.
VamosVixs
01-09-2012, 18:51
Had enough so I have changed to google chrome for now on my main pc. Still find it strange though as firefox and flash both work perfectly fine on my laptop.
It's happened after one of the latest Flash updates, if your laptop has an older version that would explain it. You can of course install an older version of Flash.
VamosVixs
01-09-2012, 19:28
Think this will do for now, having fun with the google apps at the moment! :rolling:
Sallydaisy
22-11-2012, 16:54
:shamed::shamed::shamed:
I've spilt a mug of tea over my desktop keyboard .....
:sofa:
Can anyone suggest what to do?
I turned it upside down immediately to stop too much liquid getting into the bottom and have unplugged it and left it upside down in my washbasin. Should I just let it have time to dry out - perhaps in the airing cupboard and then see what's what?
It's a bit of a nuisance 'cos I've got loads of letters to write and my
'documents' files/archives/printer are on desktop rather than laptop.
:help:
:grouphug: Sally. I spilt something on my laptop a while back and I immediately turned it upside down to let to dry and it worked OK later. But I have no idea if that is what I should have done.
Depends if there was any sugar in the tea.
No = good news.
Yes = possibly bad news.
Sallydaisy
22-11-2012, 17:14
Depends if there was any sugar in the tea.
No = good news.
Yes = possibly bad news.
No sugar - but a single Canderel sweetener ...
Is that good or bad???
I think it will be fine. I've spilt all kinds of things on my keyboard and it hasn't done it any harm.
patmoren
22-11-2012, 20:21
:shamed::shamed::shamed:
I've spilt a mug of tea over my desktop keyboard .....
:sofa:
Can anyone suggest what to do?
I turned it upside down immediately to stop too much liquid getting into the bottom and have unplugged it and left it upside down in my washbasin. Should I just let it have time to dry out - perhaps in the airing cupboard and then see what's what?
It's a bit of a nuisance 'cos I've got loads of letters to write and my
'documents' files/archives/printer are on desktop rather than laptop.
:help:
Bit to big to put in a bag of rice!
Sallydaisy
23-11-2012, 09:43
:phew:
Keyboard AOK.
I put it on a shelf in the airing cupboard overnight and it seems to be functioning normally so far.
Which means I shall have no excuse and must get on with some work to do today!
:doh:
Telly problem.
Picture from either FreeSat box or DVD player is black, white and wavery through 3 different SCART cables.
I'm thinking SCART socket problem - is it likely to be anything fixable?
My wife has been getting inundated with calls and texts from strangers for a few days now.
The texts claim that she is "Tom Evans" and the mobile number is posted on Tom Evans facebook page. Neither Google nor Facebook search come up with any results for her number either 07... or +447...
Is there anything we can do? Changing number would cause major problems so is a last resort.
Thanks
Ally
Sallydaisy
30-12-2012, 19:15
My wife has been getting inundated with calls and texts from strangers for a few days now.
The texts claim that she is "Tom Evans" and the mobile number is posted on Tom Evans facebook page. Neither Google nor Facebook search come up with any results for her number either 07... or +447...
Is there anything we can do? Changing number would cause major problems so is a last resort.
Thanks
Ally
It sounds as though her phone provider has issued her number to another user.
Have you contacted them to check/report it/complain???
It shouldn't happen but numbers are re-issued I think after a period of time when people change number/account so it could be an error from them?
Otherwise can you contact Facebook to deal with Tom Evans account?
Not a woe as such, but looking for a recommendation for a web host/sitebuilder to start up a relatively simple website for my wife's new business venture. Any recommendations? Not wanting to spend too much but usability is more important than cost.
Thanks
Edit: Kind of made a start with a free trial of Moonfruit but found some poor reviews
patmoren
03-03-2013, 16:53
Not a woe as such, but looking for a recommendation for a web host/sitebuilder to start up a relatively simple website for my wife's new business venture. Any recommendations? Not wanting to spend too much but usability is more important than cost.
Thanks
Edit: Kind of made a start with a free trial of Moonfruit but found some poor reviews
My son and daughter in law build and maintain web sites. I will PM you his email address and if you are interested give him a call.
I'm on my Kindle on the streamhunter website and constantly tapping the download button for their 'Download our new app - watch all live streams' but nothing is happening :grrr: If only I'd bought a Kindle earlier, apparently the first version had flash but the latest version doesn't. I've been looking online to see what I need to do to get it, and apparently I need to install a different operating system before I can install flash. Think I will leave it as it is for the time being.
patmoren
11-03-2013, 10:16
I'm on my Kindle on the streamhunter website and constantly tapping the download button for their 'Download our new app - watch all live streams' but nothing is happening :grrr: If only I'd bought a Kindle earlier, apparently the first version had flash but the latest version doesn't. I've been looking online to see what I need to do to get it, and apparently I need to install a different operating system before I can install flash. Think I will leave it as it is for the time being.
Having the same problem on my Smart TV can get the TEnnisTv site and sign in but can't stream because lack of flash player. Installed browser can't show downloading page. Unfortunately smart TVs based on mobile phone technology!
:help: I've just stored a Word document I have amended into a temporary area by mistake, but can't find it. Does anyone have an idea where to look. It does not come up in searches. I have Windows 7.
It was an extracted zip file.
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