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Answer» I have a HP M50 ( ya I know...it's old...lol)
There is a 1/2 dozen of my favorite websites that I can not open. I can get the home page, but when I go to open forums ( or anything else) I get a white blank screen and the bottom left side of screen above START ( on the task bar) it will say done.
I'm going crazy not being able to visit these sites, and would appreciate any help sent my way.
Thank you very much
What OS & browser?You may need up upgrade your browser or there maybe an APPLET missing that you need to open these pages fully.
You can find out what version of your browser you have by usually clicking on the Help menu option then clicking About.
Knowing the browser you are using would be very helpful.And which pages are you trying to visit?Browser is Internet Explorer 6.0
Websites are Snowmobile sites and sites to download photos.....Could you give us a couple of the website addresses that you are trying to visit and we will take a loooky Check your HOSTS file which can usually be found in "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc". If there any entries in it other than "127.0.0.1 LOCALHOST" remove them, save the file and restart your PC.
If there was anything other than the localhost entry then it was probably some adware that put them in there so run any antivirus, anti spyware/adware/malware software you have, to check for it.midnight....... Could you post a link to the site your trying to get to from your favourites ?
dl65 I GUESS the OP doesn't want to share his favourites with us
Sambob, my hosts file has 1000s of entries, should I delete them?
Think carefully before answering Bare w/ me folks...Im just back on puter' since I posted last.
Just to let you know in case you haven't figured it out...Computer illiterate waving hand over here..Hi, that would be me
What does OS and OP mean :-?
I'm out of time tonight to try the HOST files Sambob mentioned, but will do it tomorrow for sure.
Couple of the websites are.....
ftp://www.arcticchat.com & ftp://www.dootalk.com
Thanx
Quote What OS & browser?
OS=Operating System, win98, w2k, xp???
Browser=Probably Internet Explorer or Firefox???
OP=Original Poster--->You
QuoteI'm out of time tonight to try the HOST files Sambob mentioned, but will do it tomorrow for sure
Don't be too fast with this one.Thanks Fed for help w/ the lingo...
QuoteBrowser is Internet Explorer 6.0
I knew what that was...+5 for Midnight !!
QuoteI guess the OP doesn't want to share his favourites with us
Sambob, my hosts file has 1000s of entries, should I delete them?
Think carefully before answering
Hah FED no, I'm guessing that you know what they are all for and that you probably put them there.
However midnight say's he is computer illiterate so in his case I'm guessing he wouldn't have messed about with/added entries to his hosts file. Ergo if there are entries in there they could very well be what are causing the sites to be inacessable.
QuoteCouple of the websites are.....
ftp://www.arcticchat.com & ftp://www.dootalk.com
For some reason, you posted those web addresses in a way that causes them to go to an ftp link. Here they are, in workable form:
http://www.dootalk.com/
http://www.arcticchat.com/
I had no problem viewing them in Firefox 1.5 or IE 7. I also fired up my old Win 98SE box, with IE 5.5 and viewed them.
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