Thread: My Silly Puter, or ??

Hi All,
Well I thought someone out there wood know something about Puters, but it seems you are all as bad at it as I am.

We'll need one of these:

If operating system = Win3.1, Win95, Win98, or WinXP, I've forgotten them.
If OS = WinMe, Vista, I never used them.
If OS = Win8, I used it for a few months before finding that the folder that holds the Metro apps CANNOT BE EASILY ACCESSED AND DELETED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT, so I nuked its OS a$$ and went back to Win7 in disgust.

If the browser is IE, I haven't used it since about 2002.
If the email package is anything but Lotus Notes or Thunderbird(?) or a webmail like GMail, I've never used it. This goes triple for Outlook, which I have never allowed to be installed on any PC I've had any admin access to.

If it's a Mac, I haven't used one since the PowerPC days, or 1999ish. I've never used BSD/NeXT derived versions of the Mac OS.

If it's running Linux, I've used Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and a few others I can't recall, back in the early to mid 2000's

If it's a mainframe, I've used COBOL and FORTRAN on a PDP-11(???)

TL;DR version:
1) Install a different browser and see if the problem persists.
2) Use any email package except Outlook. If your email is web based, see 1.

To simplify your post for us mortals:

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

If operating system = Win3.1, Win95, Win98, or WinXP, I've forgotten them.
If OS = WinMe, Vista, I never used them.
If OS = Win8, I used it for a few months before finding that the folder that holds the Metro apps CANNOT BE EASILY ACCESSED AND DELETED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT, so I nuked its OS a$$ and went back to Win7 in disgust.

If the browser is IE, I haven't used it since about 2002.
If the email package is anything but Lotus Notes or Thunderbird(?) or a webmail like GMail, I've never used it. This goes triple for Outlook, which I have never allowed to be installed on any PC I've had any admin access to.

If it's a Mac, I haven't used one since the PowerPC days, or 1999ish. I've never used BSD/NeXT derived versions of the Mac OS.

If it's running Linux, I've used Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and a few others I can't recall, back in the early to mid 2000's

If it's a mainframe, I've used COBOL and FORTRAN on a PDP-11(???)

TL;DR version:

This is your resume, which is very impressive, evidence of much experience.

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

1) Install a different browser and see if the problem persists.

2) Use any email package except Outlook. If your email is web based, see 1.

and this is your advice to Issatree to follow.

Peter.

...just pointing out that asking a question like that is like asking:

"My transportation cannot get me to where I need to go. How do I fix this?"
or
"Y'know that sport that's having a thingy - who's the best?"*

...and then chiding people for non-response...well, waddya expect.

See also:

xkcd: Tech Support Cheat Sheet

*That's actually the sort of question I would ask on a sport forum, as I probably have a negative level of knowledge on the topic (ie the little I do know could be wrong).

The elephant in the room is the "Friend" who fixed your last problem and got derided for taking too long and getting lucky - I'll bet he's hit the hills

Hi to You All,
Well, I'm still in the Dark as to what I have been advised.
I'm no Puter whizz, but I thank you for your reply, M/S, you lost me in the 1st. 5 lines.
I have no Idea what you were on about.
I don't know how I could have asked those 2 questions, to make it easier.
I thought I had asked them simply, so all could understand, what I wanted to know.
I wood have thought there wood have been Puter People out there that could have answered that in English.
I'm sorry to be so Blunt, but I still have my 2 Problems.

The number of things that can go wrong with any hardware/software combination is close to infinite. Your described issues do not fit any commonly known problem and providing any sensible advice on the problem as described is near impossible.

With the information provided, the possible solutions are:

Install new browser (such as Chrome or Firefox or Opera) and test your forum problem. If it has gone, swear on a stack of bibles never to use Internet Explorer again. If it is still there, then it is possibly a problem with the Java virtual machine (think of your computer simulating another computer), so uninstall Java and reinstall. (the functionality of the quick links is provided by a javascript call).

If the problem persists after that, save all your personal information to another hard drive/USB stick or whatever and reinstall your operating system (I work on the theory that I'll spend no more than 30 minutes trying to solve some bizarre problem; after that it's odds on that reinstalling the O/S is faster than tracking down a real solution).

AND

Try another email package to see if the address selection problem happens in that.
(Personally, I'd just migrate to Google Mail)

OR

Buy a Mac.

Hi All who Helped,
Still wasn't sure what you were on about.
I do use Firefox , Gmail & Google.
Anyway I fixed it OK, as I used " System Restore ", & it worked.
Thanks anyway.