OT: More problems

February 4, 2007

Sorry to hear that you're having problems with the website Victoria.I know

virtually nothing about computers so I won't be of too much help.Hopefully on

Monday someone from can help you!

victoria_dragon <victoria_dragon wrote: It's gotten even

harder for me to read posts on the website and perform

moderating duties than it was when I first posted about having

problems. If anyone reading this has an idea what the problem may be

and how to correct it, please email me privately in addition to posting

on the list. Because I'm having such problems accessing posts and

screens on the website, I'm not sure if any of my posts are going

through or being answered. It's a little easier to get into my mail

than to access the CH website. Going to mail for posts won't work in my

case because I have to get on the site for certain moderating duties.

I have appealed repeatedly to for help solving this problem, and

so far nothing. If this problem continues I will be forced to move the

CH list to a list server that will allow me to get on the website. I

am willing to consider list-servers based in other countries besides

the US.

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February 4, 2007

I was going to reply to your post the other day when you said something

about it, but after I read some of the other posts I must have spaced it

=P.

Anyways I have had this problem before. I've got a few tips that might

help. Is all of your internet slow, or just ? If I read right,

you were saying just ?

For the first thing (I assume you are using IE, hopefully 6 or earlier

because I haven't installed 7 yet, and it is much different), click on

tools up by file and edit in IE then go down to internet options. Click

on delete cookies delete files in the temporary internet files section.

Then clear history in the history section. What this does is clear out

the IE cache and it may take some time after you click the button. The

longer it takes, the more stuff you have in there, and the better chance

it has of fixing the problem. If you've already done it go ahead and do

it again.

The next step is in the same window. Click the settings button in the

temporary internet files box. This will open up a new window called

settings. Make sure the radio button is on automatically (if you are

still having problems after all of this you could try some of the other

buttons). Look at the amount of disk space you are using. IE assigns a

ridiculous amount if you've got a decent sized hard drive; usually 1 or

2 thousand megabytes (or 1 or 2 gigabytes). Change this value to 100

MB, that's about how much you need, and if you have more than that it

will just slow your computer down. Hit ok on that window to saev the

settings, and hit ok on the other window to save the settings. Close

out all IE windows to save the settings.

For the third thing you can try. I am assuming you are running windows

xp (home or pro shouldn't matter). Click start then all programs then

accessories then system tools then disk defragmenter. This will open up

the windows defragmenter (it's a program that puts the info on your hd

back in order. I equate it to having a messy desk and you can't find

where anything is, or it takes you a long time to find it. If you

organize it, it speeds up what you do at your desk. Likewise a

defragmenter speeds up how your computer can pull up information). I

don't know how many hd's or partitions you have, but repeat this step

for everything that shows up in that list. Select the drive (the C:

drive is what you want to do first, or whatever drive windows is

installed on). Hit analyze. When the scan is done, hit view report.

Scroll down in the first window (volume information), and find volume

fragmentation. There should be 3 different percentages. Reply back to

me and tell me what all of those percentages are. After that go ahead

and hit close on that window. Look and see how much red you have in the

graph, if you have a lot, then this should speed up your computer a lot.

Make sure you close out most programs while this is running, and try not

to do a lot of things on your computer while it is running because it

might cause some corruption. Go ahead and hit defragment, and wait for

it to complete. It will take some time to complete based on your

computer and it's speed and configuration. Somewhere between 10min and

12 hours =P. Usually about 4 hours if you have never done it before and

you have an average machine. Repeat this for all of the drives that

show up in the disk defragmenter.

Next you can try a scan disk to see if there are any errors on your

computer. I'll try to explain this as best as I can. If it doesn't

work, there are several ways to run this one. Open my computer, look

for your c drive (or whatever windows is installed on), right click the

drive icon, and select properties, it's at the bottom of the

list(alternately you can just select the icon and press alt and enter at

the same time). Go to the tools tab and select Check now. Select

automatically fix file system errors. If your hard drive is more than 2

or 3 years old you can select scan for and attempt for recovery of bad

sectors, but the second option takes a very long time (longer than the

disk defragmenter). Then hit start. Repeat this for every hard drive

or partition you have (the drives that showed up on the disk

defragmenter.

The next thing you can do is install adaware and spybot and run the

tests. These are both free programs that remove spyware and malaware.

If you want me to explain that further just write me back, but in simple

they are machines that remove entries in your machine that can

compromise your personal information, or slow your machine down. Spybot

is available here

<http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10401314 & merid=104443 & mfgid=104443 & ltype=dl\

_dlnow & lop=btn & edId=3 & siteId=4 & oId=3120-8022_4-10401314 & ontId=8022_4 & des\

tUrl=http://www.download.com%2F3001-8022_4-10401314.html>

or if that doesn't work try here

<http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10401314.html\

?tag=lst-0-1>

<http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10401314.html\

?tag=lst-0-1>

Adaware is available here

<http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10399602 & merid=69274 & mfgid=69274 & ltype=dl_d\

lnow & lop=btn & edId=3 & siteId=4 & oId=3120-8022_4-10399602 & ontId=8022_4 & dlrs=\

1 & destUrl=http://www.download.com%2F3001-8022_4-10399602.html>

<http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10399602 & merid=69274 & mfgid=69274 & ltype=dl_d\

lnow & lop=btn & edId=3 & siteId=4 & oId=3120-8022_4-10399602 & ontId=8022_4 & dlrs=\

1 & destUrl=http://www.download.com%2F3001-8022_4-10399602.html>

or if that doesn't work, try here

<http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-103996\

02.html?tag=lst-0-1>

Go ahead and install the programs, run the updates, and start scanning

the computer. When the tests are done select all of the entries (best

if you right click a check box and hit select all), and then let the

programs fix the problem. Try to run the two scans at different times

as they can interfere with each other. Run the scans until you come up

with a clean bill of health (meaning run the scans until it says

congrats, no problems found, it might take 2 or 3 times each). Let me

know if you have troubles and I'll try to guide you through it.

The other thing you can do is run your antivirus, making sure to update

the definition files first. If you don't have an antivirus,

download AVG free here

<http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-free>

That's a few things you can do to try to get it working again. If

none of these work, send something back to me and tell me a few more

details about how and when your problem started and what OS you are

running and browser, internet connection, ect. Hope this helps =)

February 5, 2007

Well, yesterday, almost every entry I made to read mail responded with " bad url "

or " unable to access url " response, so I finally just signed out. Today so far,

so problems, but I am just reading mail from my account. has been having

lots of technical problems lately, it seems to me.