DO I POST THE WEIRDEST COMPUTER PROBLEMS OR DO YOU GUYS SIMPLY NOTKNOW??

Two weeks ago I posted about an issue with the favorites menu in
Internet Explorer on an XP computer at work. I stated that a small
chad appeared near a subfolder of Favorites and blocked me from
accessing the contents until I closed and reopened explorer. No
suggestions.

Yesterday, Sat June 28th, I posted about my printer printing websites
I visited a long time ago instead of the document I intended to
print. No takers.

Do you experts on here simply not know the answer to these odd
problems or are you ignoring me as a poster??

I need to know.

-ChrisCoaster

 

Is this a repeated problem or a one-time event. If the latter, it's not
worth investigating.

Clear your temporary Internet files. That might involve a corrupted cache.

 

In your case, both For you HP problem I would have suspected an old
job in the print spool, but given the MP3 problem I think you should
ship your PC ASAP to the Ghostbusters headquarters. Or you are taking
some strong/strange medicine.

 

"simply not know the answer to these odd problems" - Bingo!

There are 100,000 newsgroups out there. Some have "explorer" in
the name, or "vista" in the name. There may even be experts
lurking there.

If you went fishing, and didn't catch fish, would you conclude
it was a "fish conspiracy", or would you move to the next lake
and try again ?

Paul

 

*Do you experts on here simply not know the answer to these odd
problems or are you ignoring me as a poster??

I need to know. *
Q1) Both correct.
Q2)Are you SURE ...you need to know? If I tell you...I have to KILL
you....and you're too young to die.
Weekends some of us get smashed, laid, high etc so keep posting. Some
of us just don't give a toss one way or another (as most of us do this
"help" shit for free, for a bet, for something to occupy their spare
time etc) so if you are really in a screaming hurry wrap up your PC in
something warm & waterproof....and dash over to your local IT fundi &
give US a break.

 

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But the point is - and perhaps I didn't mention it - is that the
website that started printing was not something I wanted/or attempted
to print!

And no, I dont take any "medicine".

-CC

 

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If you read the first part of my post you would notice that I posted
the "Weird Behavior in Favorites" Int.Exp. menu issue TWO weeks ago.
That's a lot of time to get trashed or otherwise occupy oneself, given
the dozens of posts since that got some sort of answer or suggestion.

-CC

 

That's my understanding... But did you check that your print queue was
empty before printing?

Then http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/9069/Ghostbusters.mid

 

So you reckon you have a right to demand a reply....like in some kinda
time-frame....like a reward for just posting here.......like WE will
feel BETTER for YOUR taking time & effort just
ASKING for our help? You gotta understand MY position......I don't
really "do" screwed-up or "weird computer problems" as they (the
"weird" problems) are normally the accummulative results of the
"weird" PC's WEIRDER owners' persistent attempt at performing
operations on the aforementioned PC of a physical & mathematical
impossibility.
I tend more towards the acquisition of serials/cracks/patches for the
express conversion or demo/trial/carrot 'n stick software into fully
operative software...........in other words......the easier "help"
mode. Last time I looked.....it said.....top line
here....."alt.computer". Not
"alt.computer.with.weird.problems".......not
"alt.computer.will.answer.soon".......not
"alt.computer.go.elsewhere.cos.your.embarrassing.me"
Catch my drift, ole buddy? So if you have the need for a serial/crack/
patch et al.........& don't mind hanging around for a couple of days/
weeks/months.......a post might JUST do the trick.....but don't hold
your breath, laddie.

 

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In ENGLISH, that means you are blaming the operator - in this case,
moi - for the weird stuff in the print cue on my Home Vista computer
and the inability to access a folder in Favorites on my XP office
computer.

Fine, blame the operator, that's the ole' cop out! Next please...

-CC

 

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I didn't know that checking the print cue was a routine procedure
before printing.

Most people just click print or go File > Print, then select their
options and hit print from there.

Again if you read what I've been posting I NEVER at anytime asked it
to print ANY pages from a WEBSITE. I was printing a slide from a
PowerPoint presentation, and when I clicked print the pages from the
website started printing. I went in the cue and canceled the
request.

-CC

 

if IE is behaving oddly, then I would look into if it's possible to
reinstall it.
If not, then consider reinstalling windows if it bothers you.
or using another browser.

another option is to do a win xp System Restore to when it was OK.

Another option,
You could look into the problem.. I can think of a way to look into
the IE favourites problem..
go to C:\Documents and Settings\chriscoaster\Favorites
IE stores your favourites there.
Is ther eanything funny about the folder with the blob in IE?
look at the attributes, read only, system, hidden e.t.c.
Try going into the folder,
try copying the folder. Can you go into that?
try copying the contents of the funny folder into a new folder.

You experiment from there.

That is your best option before reinstalling anything.

this is odd but no big deal.

check your printer queue from time to time. If it has Old stuff in it,
then maybe you failed to print things and neglected your printer queue
back then.
Next time, if you click print and it doesn't print, then clear the
printer queue.

If the printer is printing lots and you want it to stop. Turn off the
printer, unplug it if you want. And clear the queue.

you could always reinstall the printer driver.. get the latest printer
driver.

with the quirkiest problems, that nobody has ever had, they are either
on google, or you reinstall..

or, maybe you can figure out what is the problem.. usually unlikely
for IE, but possible here. Possible for the printer. If it printed
too, it was in the queue, so you just had to look at when ti got in
the queue. If you looked at the queue then you'd know. If this problem
happened frequently enough then you could check.

 

On Jun 29, 7:24 pm, sandy58 <>
wrote:
.......I don't

________________
In ENGLISH, that means you are blaming the operator -
in this case,
moi - for the weird stuff in the print cue on my Home
Vista computer
and the inability to access a folder in Favorites on
my XP office
computer.

Fine, blame the operator, that's the ole' cop out!
Next please...

-CC



Try here for your printer problem:
http://www.pctoday.com/Editorial/ar...10.asp&articleid=49121&WordList=&bJumpTo=True

As far as the work computer goes, how many people use
it?
The problem could have any of a number of causes,
caused by any number of people.

 

PS. Hey, I like your pics of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Chris. I
like bridges!tedum

 

I'm not making that a routine procedure either... but when things start
getting weird, routine behavior becomes insufficient.

So do I. But when I don't get the right output, I go to the print queue
to see if it's there, after whatever is printing.

Acknowledged. But let me rephrase this: "I NEVER at anytime asked it
*CONSCIOUSLY* to print ANY pages from a WEBSITE". We are not talking
about any random website here, but one you visited. Printing a page is
just a Ctrl-P away on IE (which is the browser you use), and mistyping
happens. I'm not saying that this is what happened, but that it is still
a bit more likely than a gremlin taking hold of your PC. If the problem
isn't reproducible, your guess is as good as mine anyway, but the
usefulness of an answer is fairly low in this case since it won't happen
again.

 

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Excuse me, but this was the THIRD time it's happened in the 4 months
I've owned this combination.

I initially chalked it up to "Vista's learning curve" so touted in
magazines and literature about Vista.

It is just recently that I sought help on the issue. And no, it takes
some effort to type the keys "Ctrl" and "P" simultaneously, so that is
not the case.

-CC

 

"it": printing a web site? Then take the habit to monitor your print
queue (or to have a printer conected at all time), so you'll know when
something is added to it. Otherwise, if it's three different weird
things, then waving dead chickens may help.

Ah, Vista... then yes, you have a gremlin, and your computer is 0wn3d.

Less effort than to chew gum and walk simultaneously... Check your IE7
online help for other "Print" shortcuts, though (I don't use IE, and
only have a lowly IE6 on this computer)

 

What if Chris had some other hot key combo defined for printing ?
It might not take control-P, but some other key combination.
Maybe there is more than one way to trigger printing.

Or, the web page itself is bringing up the print dialog box. I've had
that happen on web sites, and had to click "cancel" to make it
go away. Maybe if he visits a web site that uses HTML to trigger
printing, that might do it. I'd want to examine the URL and
the page source, to see if that is possible. I don't know if Vista
would present the dialog, with an opportunity to cancel or not, because
I don't use Vista.

Paul