It is nice to know

It is nice to know even the professionals have problems with their computers. Just in case anyone is interested Micheles computer has thrown a wobbler she says it better "It has all gone tits up" she has lost it all but she does have a back up. Lucky girl. So say something nice to Michele will you please if only to make her feel better.

I know what your going through michelle,my was broke and i didn't have it for 2 weeks.

Michelle - I completely know what your going through - yesterday for instance at work of all places - typed a 6 page very detailed letter - press the F10 button which saves it on our case management system - guess wot - it never saved it and it made the entire pc freeze and crash..... not happy...

Then again if im at home im lucky as either little bro or Paul get stuck fixing my lappy if it breaks - wot with them being it techies....

Cheer up chicken..... its nearly christmas!!!!

well thank you for your kind words. The computer is in very real danger of being thrown out of my second storey window if it doesn't buck it's ideas up soon. I blame microsoft. it works sort of, until i do a windows update and then windows don't work no more....

i hate computers

Michelle - do you know anyone close to where you are that may be able to help??

Quoted from admin

it works sort of, until i do a windows update and then windows don't work no more....

It's a few years since we did a windows update. The old ones didn't work very well, particularly in the winter, but we've got double glazing now.

Seriously though, thank goodness you have a backup. Sad so and so that I am as well as backing up I synchronise the data partition between my desktop and laptop.

Three Cheers for Michelle but why am I having trouble getting logged on. Famous at last or just another outcast

I had lots of trouble getting back on once I had signed up - turned out that the forum didn't comply with my cookies settings.

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but why am I having trouble getting logged on

are you having trouble logging on to the forum or the website? i'm just curious really, i don't plan to do anything about it.
I'm using Firefox, and have absolutely no trouble at all at all

On the computer front - i refuse to be beaten by a hunk of junk desk ornament. i am doing battle nightly and i will be victorious MWAH HAH HAH!!!!! (i'm fine honestly.....) (clown)

I think i have it beat - it's cowering in the corner - i'm getting it all set up, then i'm going to back it all up onto my newly purchased external hard drive then i'm going to try and update windows again and watch it all go the shape of a pear and then i'll throw it out the window.

Michelle - from my point of view - i had trouble logging onto the forum at home - i would plug in my details - hit log on and it would just go back to the log in screen again....

I just use the link in the email to get in from home - work is fine - could be something to do with the firewall at home/security settings or somit....

(Might be best to ignore this post as Michelle seems to have fixed the problem.)

Nikki - I had the same problem as you and had a play around with my cookies settings in Internet Explorer and found that my default didn't like the forum.

I went to Tools - Internet Options - Privacy



and then to Sites and allowed smallcarsbighearts.co.uk. All is fine now.

Whowee ! it works I think I am no longer an outcase.

The forum uses cookies for the login - i seem to remember reading something about cookies anyway, and not the tasty choc chip ones either.

How comes you always end up taking about food.

Look at Andrew - getting all technical and even posting pics of the window boxes for me.... Thank you!!!

Michelle just likes her food - and chips in particular!!!

Sorry about the screenshots, it's the sort of stuff we do quite a bit of at work. Anyhow trying it in the training room there now, and I had to change the cookie settings for the PC as there was nothing about allowing individual sites, suspect it's because it's still on NT rather than XP. Must remember to change them back afterwards.

Like Michelle I spotted the bit about cookies in the signup stuff which put me on to it. Obviously I trust Michelle but I must admit that I'm a bit suspicious about reducing the privacy control for certain sites as I've never had problems like this on ezboards nor any of the similar things I use.

If Terry, Nikki and I were all affected I guess that quite a few other people might have had the same problem.

i just tried logging in with IE to see what all the fuss was about, and it wouldn't let me in! How wude!

I'm investigating to see what is to be done, although nuffink tonight coz i'm knackered.

There seems to be a problem with the framed link through the ndmr-soapbox.co.uk address, so i've changed that to redirect to the actual address, so that might help.

i blame microsoft. it's rubbish. I've had no trouble with firefox at all. it's a very well behaved browser.

and there's nothing wrong with talking about food!! It's the troughing of the take out after the exercise class that's the problem!!

Nice one Michelle. You are a (star)!

Looks like you've sorted it as I removed the site from my allowed list and it still works.

BTW Michelle, is your PC behaving now?

Michelle you are going to have to stop chewwing on the key board. If it is starting to look like your steering wheel buy another one. They do not do them in chocolate do they

My pc is still pond scum. we are at a truce for the minute. i've installed my software, setup my emails, but am steering clear of windows update for now.

i'll back it all up and then try and put sp2 on. i'll probably end up sobbing (funny) as it all goes horribly wrong again.

i hate computers

mmmmmmmmmm chocolate keyboard .........

When you say that you're going to put SP2 on have you installed that before, or is it just that you've had to backtrack to the original XP?

I was fearing the worst when I went for SP2 but it was absolutely uneventful. Maybe I was just lucky.

last week i had sp2, this week i've had to start again.

coz they don't give you a copy of windows only a 'recovery disk' you're well and truly stuffed. it wipes everything back to original settings - hence all my lost emails and programs >

i'm hoping if i install sp2 from the disk i have, maybe windows update will then work

probably not though. i hate computers

Thank you for my teddy it looks really good. I was told the Teddy was one of the stars of Bideford carnival.

This MICHELLE - should get a Trophy - SLAP ON HEAD - Oh she got one ... or is that WON ...one?

ps.......... DO YOU THINK THAY HAVE REAL GIN IN THEM?  

no gin in them I'm afriad but they are eaten by 'nutters'

Reaching for a ginger nut, I like to dunk mine.

In Gin, bit extreme but.......go for it.

 tea urn

No Gin for me at the moment

hey it wont be long before your back to normal.

and hopefuly it wont be long until my hangover clears

Thanks mate
Bang
sorry about that
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or a
(p3_horse) feeling better
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Ready to go and see some legal peeps in a few days me thinks(p2_donatello(p2_guns)