Bonjour, mon cheri!!!
How are you, Flash? :D Yeah, it was good getting here using FF, as all went without a hitch. So you have an old Beta version, eh? I think I'm just going to use this one I got and see how it works for me.
Right now I used Internet to get here, I wanted to see if there were any crashes since I downgraded to Internet Explorer 7. But.... so far, so good... knock on wood! hehehee. :p I had no idea that IE8 was going to give me such headaches and frustrations. The last time I was here it crashed or stopped 14 times, and the 15th time it totally froze.
My son called me yesterday afternoon and we were talking about our laptops, and he told me he had uninstalled IE8 because everything kept crashing. That's when I realized that IE8 might be the culprit behind my problems getting to PCW. So, IE7 is working fine - the way it should - and I'm happy to have it back.
I couldn't get on the Internet this morning! My computer kept freezing up, and Trend MicroAV kept trying to upload itself and wasn't allowing anything to start... my pointer kept spinning... I couldn't click on anything.
So I called my trusty IT friends and got connected to a guy who has been there for 16 years! We went around and around, with him on the phone. He had me do a System Restore and that didn't take care of the problem. Finally he had me restart on SafeMode and I was able to get on the Internet, and to him, and he came in remotely, and started checking everything out.
Everytime that we/he tried to do something, we'd run into a brick wall. We went to the TMAV website and tried downloading their uninstall tool, but the page wasn't working. Later he found out it was outdated and he got a better link, and we/he was able to uninstall that thing. This was after 2 hrs and 15 mins of trying to find out why my laptop wasn't letting me/us do anything! Once TMAV was uninstalled, we were able to get on the Internet and I to my homepage.
So, the culprit was Trend Micro AntiVirus! I was waiting until May 11 when my subscription would be finished to uninstall it, but I'm glad that that thing is gone! Now I think I'm going to look into AVG since it's free. He recommended it very highly. Not so with AVAST, which he installed in his son's computer and gave them nothing but grief and he had uninstall it. He also spoke very highly of MBAM and SAS, and he has those in his personal computers at home too.
He's the one who said that everyone should have two browsers for when things like these happen, and we went to the Firefox website and downloaded it for me. Unfortunately, since we were still on Safe Mode, something happened and we had to do another System Restore (we did 4 in all) and so I lost FF. But, when we finished and I was able to get online, I went to Mozilla and downloaded it myself! LOL :0 :D :p
* So, I learned a lot today:
* 1 - I learned how to boot up on Safe Mode and on Safe Mode with Networking.
* 2 - I learned about TMAV.
* 3 - I learned about the IE8 FIX IT download which uninstalled IE8.
* 4 - I learned that after you uninstall IE8 with the FIX IT download, IE7 is automatically reset/reinstalled.
* 5 - I learned about Firefox and how to download it.
* 6 - I also learned that there were some remnants (about 4) of the old Norton Symantec program still loading up on startup. (he disabled a bunch of useless stuff that was starting up when I started up the computer) Phew!!
Anyway, it was a morning I won't soon forget! So, I came here to answer your post and to say THANKS A LOT for all your support and your encouragement.
And thanks so much to
ALL my dear friends here at PCW, who have always been so kind and good to me.
Ok, gotta run 'cause I have a couple of projects to work on and haven't done a thing on them yet - and it's already 5:05 pm! Yikes!!
Cee ya later, guys! :x :x
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