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For the last few days, about 2/3 of the time when I use my bookmark to come back to Hatrack, instead of taking me to the "active forums" page where it's supposed to (which happens about 1/3 of the time), I end up on the "sit tight, taking you to..." page and then am redirected to my last post.
This would be really irritating if I didn't post so often. As it is, it's just kinda puzzling.
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I wasn't having this happen until just yesterday or the day before. I'm just kind of confuzzled about what's going on.
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Well, KQ, I just finisjed reading "Homebody." I'd say, your computer is getting too strong. Tear it apart!! Quick!!
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Windows XP (ick, came installed), SBC Yahoo (IE spinoff). And I've not had problems with my HR bookmarks before (well, except the change, of course), and I don't have problems with other bookmarks.
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Have you tried it in Internet Explorer to see if the same happens there? (trying to narrow it down)
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I don't use IE. I suppose I could try it. But not right now. *grumps* As I said, it's about 2/3 of the time (now maybe approaching more like 3/4), with no apparent rhyme or reason to the times it works.
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The cache does sound like a good culprit. Especially since it does it inconsistently. Hey Pop, what browser are you using? There might be a setting we could tweak.
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I'm too lazy to use anything but IE -- and I dislike tabbed browser windows, so don't try to sell me on it please. There's a setting to look for new pages every time you visit, but I don't want that, either. If anyone figures out a very easy fix, I'll try it. Maybe.
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That could be a huge help. Memory is cheap and if you get that up to 512 you’ll notice so much improvement in everything. Might be a part of this problem where the memory gets confused since it’s filled up. It is fairly easy to install too and a number of places carry extra memory now too.
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(We just gave our extra memory from our last computer to Morbo. I don't know if our new computer even has room for extra memory.)
I think we may need to update our browser. Unfortunately, the website to do that is stupid, and their tech support is stupider. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I used to do SBC DSL CSI (Customer Self Install) tech support
The SBC Yahoo! browser sucks. If we could do it without being too blatant, we'd get customers to stop using it.
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fugu, the people I've been talking to are all from India. I don't think they care either way. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Well, I just managed to delete the files and cookies. We'll see if it makes any difference. (For some obscure reason, this time it didn't crash. )
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It doesn't do it the first time I come back after signing out of my (yahoo) account, but otherwise, it happens every time now.
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But my husband uses the same computer. And it's when I don't sign out that I have the problem; it works normally the first time after I sign in.
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Oh.....well my advice was entirely useless. Maybe you should just forget the bookmark and get here the old-fashioned way. Type in the address to the main page and follow the links to get here.
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But that takes so long! I'd rather refresh or whatever. I mean, I'm only ever gone a few minutes at most before I come back; it would be really inconvenient to not use a bookmark.
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Why is the world obessed with convienence? Why must we make things easier for ourselves? I've always loved a challenge.
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quote: I've been trying since rivka pointed out Sat. night that I hadn't done it in a while to empty the cache.
My computer crashes every time I try.
It doesn't do it the first time I come back after signing out of my (yahoo) account, but otherwise, it happens every time now.
That's weird, I wonder why you computer crashes just for clearing the cache? Maybe you have a bug or virus? Try running ad-aware or similar cleaning programs.
Is Hatrack your hompage? Many spyware and virus programs reset your homepage.
The cache still seems like a good bet. Go to Internet options, either through the control panel or Tools menu in IE. Click general if it doesn't come up automatically. Click Settings by Temp. Internet files. There is a multiple choice for "Check for newer vesions of stored page." What is your browser set to? Maybe changing this setting will fix it.
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