I have received an email from Vic (VHW) stating that for some unknown reason he is having heaps of trouble and cannot see any posts on the forum, so if any post requires an answer from Vic please understand that he knows nothing about it.
Firefly said
06:50 PM Nov 30, 2010
He is having a lot of trouble at the moment isn't he. Hope he evicts those gremlins before much longer.
JRH said
06:53 PM Nov 30, 2010
I think someone sneezed on his computer and it came down with a viral infection.
jandas fun said
07:00 PM Nov 30, 2010
Is it only happening after 4p.m happy hour? have the same problem sometimes.
Johnw
JRH said
07:01 PM Nov 30, 2010
jandas fun wrote:
Is it only happening after 4p.m happy hour? have the same problem sometimes.
Johnw
Geez I know that feeling well Johnw
jandas fun said
07:07 PM Nov 30, 2010
Seriously, i hope he fixes his problem soon. I have a heap of Vic's links in my favourites, he finds some great ones.
John
JRH said
07:14 PM Nov 30, 2010
I'm sure he will get it sorted sooner rather than later, yes he does come up with some great links, have quite a few of them from him myself.
jimricho said
07:17 PM Nov 30, 2010
Mysteriously VHW's profile has been deleted (?). I think Vic is logging in under the name "Vee Double U" now.
The problem may be related to his browser or firewall settings (a long-shot guess only) These may have mysteriously changed during a software update or upgrade perhaps.
OR... it could be a symptom of something more serious, eg malicious software (virus).
John (JRH) if you have his email you may wish to pass this on to him.
Jim
PS: another thought is to download and inastall another browser such as Firefox and see what that does.
-- Edited by jimricho on Tuesday 30th of November 2010 07:19:03 PM
JRH said
07:30 PM Nov 30, 2010
jimricho wrote:
Mysteriously VHW's profile has been deleted (?). I think Vic is logging in under the name "Vee Double U" now.
The problem may be related to his browser or firewall settings (a long-shot guess only) These may have mysteriously changed during a software update or upgrade perhaps.
OR... it could be a symptom of something more serious, eg malicious software (virus).
John (JRH) if you have his email you may wish to pass this on to him.
Jim
PS: another thought is to download and inastall another browser such as Firefox and see what that does.
-- Edited by jimricho on Tuesday 30th of November 2010 07:19:03 PM
Many thanks Jim I have passed the info on to Vic.
Cee said
07:46 PM Nov 30, 2010
It's soooooooooooo frustrating when your computer gets a mind of it's own, another option is to backdate your computer configuration to a date prior to when the problems started, this option is normally found in the control panel > recovery> backdate options (this works for windows 7 users, although xp users also have the same option in their control panel), just set the date back the date prior to having problems...........it's worth a try. It should fix things
Keep Smiling
Cee said
08:19 PM Nov 30, 2010
Forgot to say if you choose to use the above option you will loose anything between the dates things went wrong to the back date day
Keep Smiling
Smokeydk said
10:11 AM Dec 1, 2010
Always back up your computer.......external HDD are real cheap now.......I bought a 350 Gig one for under $100.....
I too hope Vic sorts out his problems
Dave
JRH said
11:01 AM Dec 1, 2010
Message from Vic to say that Cindy is contacting to owners of the site to try and fix things up asap.
For jimricho Vic says a big thankyou for the advice but unfortunately the problem still exists and it is only on GN, all other fora come up OK.
Also a big thankyou to all who have replied, it is appreciated.
jimricho said
04:27 PM Dec 1, 2010
It was only a "longshot" guess John
JRH said
04:40 PM Dec 1, 2010
I have seen many longshot guesses work well Jim, once again thank you for taking the time.
Vee Double U said
12:57 PM Dec 2, 2010
Thanks to all and Cindy for your help and advice, I am now back on track as Vee Double U and VHW is out of the system.
I was contacted by Cindy with further advice she had received from activeboard, some of what I had tried before but didn't seem to work. However following this advice again and the first suggestion (plus some other fiddling I did on my setting but don't ask me what....I can't remember, mainly resetting things to my default settings which I had done before without success, lol). I did remove GN from my favourites and also Google as my search engine and tried Bing instead, and it worked. Went back to Google again and it worked also, so now back to normal and very gratefull to all.
In case it may help someone else, I'll repeat the advice I received from Cindy on behalf of the forum hosts;
"The first step is to please try clearing your browser's cache and cookies. Hopefully, that alone will solve the issues, but failing that there are a couple of initial steps we can take to narrow down what could be causing this:
a) Try posting from another browser on the same computer b) Try posting from another computer (any browser)"
I only needed to try the first step and (a) plus some other fiddling to get back to normal, if it was this (rather than my other fiddling), then this is similar to what Jim said (thanks Jim) although I did not try Firefox.
FYI and Thanks to and John for relaying my difficulties to you all, Vic
-- Edited by Vee Double U on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 01:05:12 PM
JRH said
01:05 PM Dec 2, 2010
Good to see you back again Vic, bloody computers, "someone should blow them up" (Ted Bullpit)
Firefly said
01:06 PM Dec 2, 2010
Finally success Vic, good to see you on track again.
Vee Double U said
01:07 PM Dec 2, 2010
Thanks all, I think we should give that Ted Bullpit a medal John for words of wisdom
-- Edited by Vee Double U on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 01:08:17 PM
The problem may be related to his browser or firewall settings (a long-shot guess only) These may have mysteriously changed during a software update or upgrade perhaps.
OR... it could be a symptom of something more serious, eg malicious software (virus).
John (JRH) if you have his email you may wish to pass this on to him.
Jim
PS: another thought is to download and inastall another browser such as Firefox and see what that does.
-- Edited by jimricho on Tuesday 30th of November 2010 07:19:03 PM
It's soooooooooooo frustrating when your computer gets a mind of it's own, another option is to backdate your computer configuration to a date prior to when the problems started, this option is normally found in the control panel > recovery> backdate options (this works for windows 7 users, although xp users also have the same option in their control panel), just set the date back the date prior to having problems...........it's worth a try. It should fix things
Keep Smiling
Forgot to say if you choose to use the above option you will loose anything between the dates things went wrong to the back date day
Keep Smiling
For jimricho Vic says a big thankyou for the advice but unfortunately the problem still exists and it is only on GN, all other fora come up OK.
Also a big thankyou to all who have replied, it is appreciated.
I was contacted by Cindy with further advice she had received from activeboard, some of what I had tried before but didn't seem to work. However following this advice again and the first suggestion (plus some other fiddling I did on my setting but don't ask me what....I can't remember, mainly resetting things to my default settings which I had done before without success, lol). I did remove GN from my favourites and also Google as my search engine and tried Bing instead, and it worked. Went back to Google again and it worked also, so now back to normal and very gratefull to all.
In case it may help someone else, I'll repeat the advice I received from Cindy on behalf of the forum hosts;
initial steps we can take to narrow down what could be causing this:
b) Try posting from another computer (any browser)"
I only needed to try the first step and (a) plus some other fiddling to get back to normal, if it was this (rather than my other fiddling), then this is similar to what Jim said (thanks Jim) although I did not try Firefox.
FYI and Thanks to and John for relaying my difficulties to you all,
Vic
-- Edited by Vee Double U on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 01:05:12 PM
-- Edited by Vee Double U on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 01:08:17 PM