The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Melena on February 13, 2009, 11:22:18 AM
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My computer at home is not happy. I've been having trouble getting onto the internet. Grrr. >:(
I'm at work right now, just trying to fit in a note to you all. So, if I don't show up for a few more days, I'm still around. I've got to get that fixed this weekend.
Maybe it's the rain we're having (finally). Okay, that's as good an excuse as any. I'll get back on when I can.
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I'm sorry I don't have any REAL advice for you, Melena.
I can suggest you delete all your cookies, for a start.
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...I can suggest you delete all your cookies, for a start.
I'm so old I can remember when cookies were for eatin'. I'm compuKer challenged myownself. I like the instruction to, "Hit any key". THAT I can do!
Last Sunday I could not get on the internet due to a large amount of traffic; so much that I had to wait a few hours before my Safari homepage would completely load... so to speak.
Good luck, Melena.
Monte
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You may want to look at the links below:
I picked up a virus awhile back - Zedo - it was a pain to get rid of.
Since then I've used CCleaner (previous handle: CrapCleaner). It's free and cleans out your cookies/history/memory dumps/index.dat files etc.
I was amazed at just how much extra space it managed to provide - and I used to clean out the temp files regularly.
I also use spybot - doesn't matter where you go - you inevitably pick up some spyware - which slows the computer down - even if you have a virus scan on the comp running...
And lastly - check your Registry - I use Eusing Free Registry cleaner
BTW - maybe you need to defrag?
Link:
http://www.filehippo.com/
All downloads are free
If you have issues trying to download onto C drive, you can load it onto D - though you really shoudn't...
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One of the best download sites for free software is http://www.download.com/windows/
Some of the stuff I use can be downloaded there. Try AVG antivirus (free version), Ad-Aware (antispyware), SUPERAntiSpyware.
Download, install, get the latest updates, and run them one at a time. I always reboot after each.
Free to try registry cleaners can be found there too.
Good luck,
Ed
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Truth is that when yer 'puter starts to act funky there are a plethora of possible causes. It really does pay to have someone experienced at these issues to have a look. Network, Hardware, Software can all cause troubles and each is a discipline to itself. When I say experienced I mean someone who makes a living at it. Not a friend who sorta once fixed something and not the retail store kids either.
Aside to the geeks: Anyone running NOVA yet?
rich
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Isn't NOVA Spanish for "doesn't go"??
;D
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I think I've got it all back working again. I updated my Yahoo browser and did some Microsoft updates. I deleted a bunch of stuff by going to System Tools and using the Disk Cleanup to get rid of the unnecessary files. I went to defrag the disc too, but it didn't look all that bad. I'll do that soon.
I had 2 spyware programs and I'll bet they were fighting each other. I uninstalled them and also uninstalled AVG. Then I went and reinstalled AVG just now. The newest version of AVG Free has Antispyware on it too now. So, with everything else I've already got, that should take care of it. I've got my settings so that cookies are supposed to be deleted after a certain length of time so they don't build up to such humongous amounts.
But what is a registry cleaner? I don't know that one yet. Looks like I will though. ::)
The IT guy that takes care of the computers at work said he would look at tomorrow, but I think it's okay now. And anyway, it's supposed to be really stormy tomorrow and I don't want to go out on the roads.
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Isn't NOVA Spanish for "doesn't go"??
;D
That's nothing. It's English for "explodes and takes out the entire stellar system with it."
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Melena, it's possible the problem was with Yahoo. I don't use Yahoo as a browser or as my home page (I run Safari on a nearly antiquated G4 iMac), but I have a Yahoo Mail account. For the past three or four days, Yahoo will work for a few minutes, then freeze my computer without warning. Fortunately, I can go back to the Finder on the iMac and "Force Quit" my browser, thus breaking out of the crash. Yahoo seems to have been having problems for some time now, possibly because its servers are oversubscribed. There have been times when I can't get into Yahoo at all, particularly at 7 a.m. (Eastern Standard), when everyone in two or more time zones in the U.S. seems to check their mail. I have broadband service via FiOS, so I'm pretty certain that the problem is at the server end.
Slightly OT comment regarding not-so-fast-ed's question: << Isn't NOVA Spanish for "doesn't go"?? >>
More or less, though I think it's a sentence fragment. The geniuses in GM didn't figure that out for years after introducing the Chevy Nova in 1963, then wondered why it didn't sell in areas with high Hispanic populations. But before throwing more stones at GM, please consider that there have been similar mistakes (or near-mistakes) by organizations that should have known better.
Example 1: About 45 years ago, the numerous affiliated Standard Oil companies (now Exxon Mobil) were in the process of reorganizing and looking to adopt a single name for the entire corporation. One of the news magazines (Newsweek, I think) reported that the corporation researched nearly every significant language in the world to ensure that any name selected would be either an innocuous translation or nonsense letters in another language. A close call: the magazine stated that one of the company names under consideration, Enco, was a slang Japanese term for a stalled automobile. To be safe, the corporation selected the nonsense name, "Exxon."
Example 2—my favorite: For years I lived in El Paso, Texas, which is across the river from Juarez, Mexico, and itself has a huge Hispanic population. There exists an international organization named Mensa, which has as its only membership requirement a report attesting that the prospective member has scored in the top two percent of the general population on any one of a number of generally recognized tests of reasoning ability. ("Mensa" is the Latin word for "table," representing the notion of a table being a forum for informal discussions among intelligent people.) The local El Paso chapter of Mensa operated under a severe recruiting handicap: Seems that in local barrio Spanish slang along the US-Mexico border, "Mensa" translates loosely as "stupid woman"—but is worse, apparently being both sexist and sexually insulting. (I have never been able to find the word in a Spanish-English dictionary, but I heard about it from so many bilingual residents of El Paso in the 1970s that I'm convinced that it is—or was—authentic.) What made the story doubly weird was that the moderator of El Paso's Mensa chapter, an elderly Anglo gentleman whom I knew personally, could not understand for several years why his automobile's vanity license plate ("Mensa") caused so many giggles or outright laughs when he stopped for gasoline.
Question: Have any of our members in the Republic of Texas ever encountered "Mensa" in its Spanish context?
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Melena, it's possible the problem was with Yahoo. I don't use Yahoo as a browser or as my home page (I run Safari on a nearly antiquated G4 iMac), but I have a Yahoo Mail account. For the past three or four days, Yahoo will work for a few minutes, then freeze my computer without warning. Fortunately, I can go back to the Finder on the iMac and "Force Quit" my browser, thus breaking out of the crash. Yahoo seems to have been having problems for some time now, possibly because its servers are oversubscribed. There have been times when I can't get into Yahoo at all, particularly at 7 a.m. (Eastern Standard), when everyone in two or more time zones in the U.S. seems to check their mail. I have broadband service via FiOS, so I'm pretty certain that the problem is at the server end.
Ahhhhh! Yes, that was most likely the problem. Thank you. Well, it got me cleaning up the hard drive and getting things updated. ;D
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Altritter, I have no idea what "mensa" might mean but as far as having to pass a "generally recognized tests of reasoning ability" to become a member might be a stretch. Although Mensa mambers have to place at the top in standardized IQ tests I don't think I would accuse any mensa members I have ever know of having reasoning ability or common sense. Or, maybe I am confusing reasoning ability and common sense. ;)
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Hmm Justin. I used to know a guy who belonged to Mensa. His analytical skills were quite remarkable, but common sense? LOL..... in fact [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]
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I agree. I have found over the years that, except for rare exceptions, there is an inversely proportional relationship between the level of formal education and "IQ level" and common sense...
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the thing about common sense
is that it's not veryy common.
:D