Our computer has just started having an issue about opening links and sub pages from sites that we are in - ie when on a travel agents website looking at hotels and you go to click on 'more' for further details of holiday it either wont open at all, or we have to right click and open the page as new tab/window. Am sure the Charlton Life community can give me an easy cure for this !!!
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Try this first and see if it helps:
Quit all Internet Explorer instances
Go to Start - Run - then type the following: regsvr32 urlmon.dll and hit 'OK'
You should get a message pop up telling you that you've succeeding in registering a .dll
Try opening up Internet Explorer and seeing if that has worked.
Is it okay to do so ?
Thanks mate.
Seriously, asking me still to "install".
Is this a good idea ?
Adobe Reader is perfectly safe - it is used to view '.pdf' documents (Portable Document Format) - which is a format designed to make documents appear universally similar to all users, independent of what version of Office software they're running (amongst other things). It is possible that something nasty is trying to install a 'fake' piece of software disguised as Adobe Reader, but highly unlikely
PS Abode is ok to install fella, really ----no really it is.
Still here.......just.
*****Boring Alert *****
Got a scanner printer today: a "HPDeskjet F4200 All-in-one" (it says on the box.
Now need help to use it.
Remember I'm pretty Stupid, so in laymans terms how do I :
Scan or Copy something and then put it onto this (or a.n.other) site.
I can print stuff (even I can do that....push "Print"..)but no idea how to "paste & Copy" ?
Any help appreciated.
Oh, and I also can't put an "account picture" on here, the "Feed is Broken".
a few times like you do with the tv
.... Computers they are the devils tools and
IT guys his henchmen speaking in riddles and
strange tounges
Tried that 1st off....I'm not that stupid !!
No joy tho'................anyone ?
Have you got yourself a mouse yet ? Thehn you can copy & paste with your eyes shut.
It's simple enough really, even for an old git like me:
1) Drag your mouse over what you want to copy .....by continuously holding down left mouse button until the passage you want to copy is highlighted in blue.
2) Copying: Then press the 'control' and 'c' keys at the same time.
3) Set your cursor to where you want to paste the article (for example, in the Charlton Life 'comments box', as you would when making a normal post).
4) Paste: Then press the 'control' and 'v' keys at the same time.
And .....La Voila! send in the normal way when you've finished your post.
I'm Good !!!
(Thanks again)
Once you get the hang of it, you'll do it without even thinking about it.
Go out and buy a book - much better than trying to get ad-hoc help from internet forums or web searches.
Thanks again.
and, just noticed on my laptop theres labels saying............
"Productivity Keys"
"Video Conference" &
"SignalUP".
Good things ?
My PC seems to be running slower than a 3 legged dog..
I have a virus checker which has done a full scan and found nothing. I have done malwarecheck, used spybotcleaner, and used adaware and still nothing.
Its like the memory had given up the ghost. Its mainly when I use itunes (I have approx 25000 songs on there) not showing pictures, and it just hangs and hangs.
The PC has 2 gig of memory which should be more than adequate to run firefox and itunes at the same time. The memory for those show as about 150,000 for itunes and about 120,000 for firefox.
Any suggestions would be appreciated as it's virtually unusable now!
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Have you tried switching it on and off?
Perhaps also try clearing out your cookies.
Go to "Tools" then select "Internet Options" and then "Settings" and then "View files" - this is where you'll find all the cookies/temporary internet files etc. You can can on most PCs just delete the entire lot which will free up some memory.
Also run the Defrag program:
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Defragmenter
It doesn't sound like a memory issue - 2Gb is more than adequate for what you want to do. Similarly, clearing out your cookies and temporary internet files won't make your PC any more responsive - it might speed up your browsing, but that's not the problem you're having.
Try seeing how much free disk space you have - if its less than about 5% you will encounter serious performance problems like the ones you've described.
If you have plenty of space available, then I suspect your disk itself may be on the way out - have a look through your event logs (Start - Run - type in 'eventvwr' and hit return) and look in 'System' for anything that looks like its related to 'disk' - if you've got errors or warnings, its time to replace your hard drive (before you lose all the data off it). A disk defrag won't help (the days when this made a difference are long past) and, in your case (if it is your disk that's failing), may actually exacerbate your problems (defragging is pretty disk intensive and can hasten mechanical failure on an already failing disk).
If you can't find anything related to your disk, then it may be overheating - usually this results in a PC rebooting itself rather than slowing down, but I've seen it happen before so its possible.
Other than that, it could literally be hundreds of things, so pretty pointless trying to diagnose it on an internet forum.
I doubt the memory is corrupt. But go here and run this program: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
Have you installed any software recently, maybe that is holding something up? In any case have a look at what software you have and delete anything no longer in use, especially if it's file sharing software.
Yep, screaming & swearing at it is a much under-rated way of solving PC problems.