| AndrewT |
Hi,
has the "log on" system been changed in this forum?
I am finding that I have to repeatedly "log on" again while browsing the threads.
It has changed since the thunderstorm and computer drivers corruption last week. Coincidence?
Could "cookies" settings be causing my problem?
It is more than a little annoying having to repeat "log on" and much worse when I lose a long reply. |
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| richie00boy |
| Sounds like your internet security settings got changed somehow. You need to allow cookies for this site. |
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| AndrewT |
Hi Richie,
i just added DIYaudio to
TOOLS,
INTERNET OPTIONS,
PRIVACY,
EDIT,
ALLOW diyaudio.com
and so far it seems to be better. But I never had to do that before. |
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| Christer |
Perhpas you have changed the general cookie policy without remembering or even knowing it?
Perhaps you have updated the browser (which may not even know if you use IE and auto update in Windows) so there is a different default policy? |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
I returned the PC to the Vendor to get the ethernet card "alive" again.
The Tech repaired/refreshed/replaced the driver and claimed the hardware was not damaged, he even demonstrated it working before I left.
But, I am now using USB, because when I got home the ethernet card would still not talk to the router.
A day and a half of my time, 2.5hrs of phone calls to BT, £10 repair fee and almost 90 miles of travel and still no ethernet card :smash:
But at least Broadband is better than dial-up.
Hang on, thunderstorms NEVER damaged dial-up :att'n:
So, Yes, things have changed at my end.
Then no change at DIYaudio end? |
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| AudioFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndrewT
So, Yes, things have changed at my end.
Then no change at DIYaudio end? |
No recent change here. |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
the "allow diyaudio" is still working.
So it appears that my software was changed either by the storm or by the technician.
Thanks all. |
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| richie00boy |
| I would guess the general internet security level (low/med/hi or something similar) has been changed. Do you use IE? I never have any problems with Firefox but IE was a bit rubbish. |
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| poobah |
Andrew,
What brand is your router? |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
I tried Firefox, a year or so back, but could not get the PC to operate. Uninstalled it and went back to IE5.5 |
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| poobah |
No... you mentioned a router... a hardware device.
:confused: |
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| AndrewT |
Hi Poobah,
BT supplied a router (hardware-BTVoyager 205 ADSL) to connect the PC to the phone line. It allows access to the broadband.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the router might have gone faulty but the numerous checks BT asked me to do, identified the PC as being at fault. BT would not admit that the router could have been damaged by the lightning strikes. The power grid was down for 5hrs and took out the phone line for 12hrs. |
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| dnsey |
| I've never managed to get IE to work properly with DIYaudio.com, despite fiddling with settings. Firefox works fine. |
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| poobah |
Ah... I see.
I only asked because I had some router problems... a Linksys brand. I downloaded a prog from their site, an idiot-proof program that configs your router in a few minutes.
Good luck, does BT stand for British Telephone?
:) |
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| AndrewT |
BT=British Telecom
They do a little bit more than telephone now.
Oh, those were the days, when it was called "The Post Office", but then they started to do a bit more than uplift and deliver the post. |
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| AndrewT |
AAgh!:xeye:
It did it again after writing a long reply.
It seems to be timing me out.
Can anyone familiar with IE5.5 or IE6 give me explicit instructions on what to look for and what/how to alter? |
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| AndrewT |
And again.
Maybe it's dropping a hint;- don't spend all afternoon on the keyboard. |
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| Christer |
Andrew,
I don't use IE, but started it to have a look at the settings.
Under Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy there is a slider for security level. You migh try lowering the security level temporarily to see if that makes the problem go away. That is perhaps not a good final solution, but could at least provide a hint.
Some browsers also allow setting the life time of cookies, which could have explained the problem, but IE seems not to have such a setting. |
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| Netlist |
Download Opera, you'll never return to IE.
/Hugo :) |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
if I were to try another browser, would you experts talk me through the setting up?
I had that earlier attempt based on Forum recommendation, but gave up. |
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| Netlist |
This one is really simple. Click the green button, then Run. It's very straightforward but ask if you feel like.
/Hugo :) |
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| Christer |
You can have several browser installed at the same time, usually without any harmful effects, so you can install another one to give it a try. When you get the question if you want to use the new browser as your default browser, answer "no" for the time being, so IE will continue working as before. Then you can start the new browser explicitly when you want to use it.
The major problem is that browsers usually cannot share bookmarks and cookies, so if you read a forum thread with, for instance, Firefox, it won't get marked as read if you later read the forum using IE, and vice versa. However, for test period one can usually live with that, and then decide whether to switch to the new broswer as defalt or not. |
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| Netlist |
Opera imports IE favorites with three clicks. :)
/Hugo |
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| Christer |
| Yes, I rather meant that he might want to use two browsers in parallel while evaluating the new one, and then he doesn't want to import forth and back between them all the time. But he can import the old bookmarks into the new browser when installing it, and then, if necessary, do it once again if deciding to switch to the new one. |
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| SY |
| Christer, OT, but I've been replying to your emails. Your spam filter might not like me. |
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| Christer |
| quote: | Originally posted by SY
Christer, OT, but I've been replying to your emails. Your spam filter might not like me. |
Interesting. Your ISP doesn't let my emails through, and my ISP doesn't let your emails through. Seems they don't like each other. :)
So maybe we both have a problem then, that there maybe people who cannot contact us via email? Shall we try to investigate the matter, and check with our ISPs?
It seems to get more and more common that ISPs block out a whole ISP just because of one or a few abusers sending spam.
Edit:
Sorry, I must be tired. You mean you actually got both the mails I sent directly to you, and not via the forum? Did you thus receive the first one almost a week ago? That one bounced back to me after 4 days as undeliverable because the host was not responding. |
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| SY |
| I've been getting yours, no problem. Beat your provider over the head with a herring. |
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| Netlist |
| quote: | Originally posted by Christer
two browsers in parallel |
Indeed. Occasionally, I use IE for the Google toolbar is still not implemented for Opera. Both will keep begging you to be the default so you need not to worry you might lose one.
/Hugo :) |
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| Christer |
SY,
Just edited while you were answering. Yes, seems there is rather a problem in my end then. Although, something is strange in your end too if you got the mails that was returned as undeliverable.
Well, it seems my ISP is the one to contact first in this case. I'll mail them about it. |
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| Christer |
Hugo,
Yes, IE is sometimes useful since some web pages don't follow the standard and only work with IE. Besides, one can't really get rid of it entirely anyway, as long as one is using Windows.
Anyway, everybody has their favourite browser, and some people have problems with certain browsers on their machine. I use Mozilla since I got tired of the memory problems that some of us had with Firefox (might be solved now, though). I also tried Opera but managed to crash it so it didn't even help to uninstall and reinstall. I preferred Mozilla anyway, so I didn't bother more about it. Many seem to like Opera though. |
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| SY |
| They weren't returned to me, I just sent 'em and you didn't get 'em. The only way I knew that was from the repeated question, "Are you getting this?" |
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| Christer |
OK, so you mails just get lost in a black void while my mails get both delivered and claimed not to be. Well, I guess that evens out in a weird sense.
Isn't the internet wonderful sometimes? :) |
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| richie00boy |
| Andrew, running Firefox should be as easy as downloading the installer file and opening it. The installation then asks you if you want to import stuff from IE. I would chose not to and start fresh so you know it's all OK. I never use favourites, instead I keep text files of useful links etc so I'm never tied to any one computer or software, so the decision not to import is less of an issue for me. |
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| Zen Mod |
| quote: | Originally posted by richie00boy
Andrew, running Firefox should be as easy as downloading the installer file and opening it. The installation then asks you if you want to import stuff from IE. I would chose not to and start fresh so you know it's all OK. I never use favourites, instead I keep text files of useful links etc so I'm never tied to any one computer or software, so the decision not to import is less of an issue for me. |
I run Firefox 1.06 ,but heavily tweaked with extensions.....best place for this is http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showforum=2
it takes time,but it worts every second-now FF do what I think,I don't even click on mouse or keyboard .............. ;)
best thing is reinstall (i mean on OS) - copy two directories before reinstall, then install fresh copy of 1.06 ,and paste these two dirs .......all extensions,tweaks ,favorites,and even cashe are there again
tip for IE
under tools-internet option-just click on all "default" or "restore defaults " buttons
clear cookies,temp internet files and cash and then try again |
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| rpapps |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndrewT
Hi,
I tried Firefox, a year or so back, but could not get the PC to operate. Uninstalled it and went back to IE5.5 |
Hi Andrew
You're a bit behind the times.
IE has been at Rev 6.1 for some years now.
I have no issues with it.
Cheers
Rob |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
I'm worse than you think.
I still use win98.:apathic: |
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| Christer |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndrewT
Hi,
I'm worse than you think.
I still use win98.:apathic: |
Maybe that is even more a reason to check out another browser. MS often don't care much about updates for their old platforms. Since other browsers are not integrated in Windows, like IE is, they usually don't rely so much on which Windows version you are running. Mozilla 1.5 worked very well on Win98 for me, and the current version 1.7 isn't much different, so I suspect that would work well, and hence probably Firefox would too. I can't tell about Opera though, I prefer to listen to opera, not to browse with it. :) |
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| richie00boy |
| My dad is on Win98 still on my old hand-me-down and Firefox works fine for him, if a little slower initiall loading. |
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| AndrewT |
Hi all,
thanks for the support.;)
My greying hair feels even more so. :Ouch: :geezer: |
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| rpapps |
As of June 30, Windows 98 and NT are officially non-supported products so there will be no more updates or fixes from Microsoft.
You're on your own now guys.
Cheers
Rob |
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| rdf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Christer
Mozilla 1.5 worked very well on Win98 for me, and the current version 1.7 isn't much different, so I suspect that would work well, and hence probably Firefox would too. I can't tell about Opera though, I prefer to listen to opera, not to browse with it. :) |
Have you tried Opera 9? I've been a Mozilla fan since it first compiled, 0.7 or 0.8 if remember that far back, and staying with in the transition to Seamonkey. Opera 9 finally made me switch. Really impressive, incredibly configurable and super-fast. Browsing on the folk's P3-~600 with WinME wasn't painful at all. Except for the WinME part. :headbash: |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
I have been toying with the idea of upgrading (would everybody agree) to XP and the recent news regarding lack of support has now convinced me that upgrade is probably best.
I think I will try Opera first and see how we get on. It may become a marriage (whether convenience or love- I care not). |
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| dnsey |
| quote: | | I have been toying with the idea of upgrading (would everybody agree) to XP |
XP is very resource-hungry, and will run painfully slowly on the average '98 PC. It appears more stable, but actually largely 'hides' its crashes to look good! |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
I use an amd 2000+CPU, 128Mb ram, 133Mhz buss,
No moving graphics (no games, no movies), no music,
Do I have a decent chance? |
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| Zen Mod |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndrewT
Hi,
I use an amd 2000+CPU, 128Mb ram, 133Mhz buss,
No moving graphics (no games, no movies), no music,
Do I have a decent chance? |
you just need 256MB of RAM for XP (so-additional 128MB in your case)
rest is more than 'nough |
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| AndrewT |
Hi,
thanks.
I already have that for but not fitted to my older computer (new motherboard)
So 256Mb will be fitted before the upgrade.
Now to spend some money.:eek: |
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| rpapps |
Hi Andrew
You may have some device driver issues with older peripherals.
I had to replace my internal dialup modem when I upgraded from 98 to XP as there was no XP driver available for it.
Cheers
Rob |
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