MicroBob
02-27-2005, 09:22 PM
First - my usual qualifier that I am virtually completely computer and tech incompetent. So speak slowly and use easy to understand words so that I have some chance of keeping up.
The first issue I'm dealing with here is that Internet-explorer seems to be blocking all pop-ups (or something like that).
When i click on a party-skin for a 'new-user' or 'deposit' or if I click on Pokerstars for FAQ (which brings up a web-page) nothing is happening.
So it seems that explorer is somehow blocking these and I don't know where that setting is (still looking for it).
Immediate help would be just dandy.
Here's the whole scenario so feel free to comment on this ridiculous situation I put myself into as well if you like.
I was at the internet-coffee place and was having difficulty accessing the internet connection. As has happened before, I had a fine and dandy signal....but when mozilla or anything else didn't recognize that I was connected.
I finally found one box that i would check-mark that says 'allow me to connect via this blah blah blah'. But after checking that box...and then opening it again...it would be unchecked.
I thought maybe I picked up a stupid bug somewhere in there that was unchecking this box.
I did a couple of different system-restores to a week or two ago to try to fix it....
THEN - in the middle of one of the system-restores my battery died.
This REALLY messed up my computer.
After getting home and reconnecting I saw that mozilla-firefox and all party skins were missing.
I'm thinking that the restore just hadn't gotten to those yet when it got cut-off.
I tried restoring again....but afterwards it says there were no changes (and it remains exactly the same).
When it's restoring....it looks like the little progress-bar goes to about the same point where it was when it died earlier....and that's where it finishes.
Anyway...the system-restore stuff isn't working and I seem to have f'ed things up pretty good.
I was hoping to take advantage of the situation and see if I could at least set up a new account at one of the skins....but when I click 'new-user' it does not access the page via IE (I haven't reinstalled firefox yet....but the deault for the party skins is IE anyway).
Okay...blast-away at my total incompetence if you like.
However....if Windows weren't so damn problematic in the first place I wouldn't have gotten myself in this situation.
But...before you blast-away....please tell me where the setting is to allow the other sites such as the poker-rooms to open their pages via IE.
Thanks for any help.
The first issue I'm dealing with here is that Internet-explorer seems to be blocking all pop-ups (or something like that).
When i click on a party-skin for a 'new-user' or 'deposit' or if I click on Pokerstars for FAQ (which brings up a web-page) nothing is happening.
So it seems that explorer is somehow blocking these and I don't know where that setting is (still looking for it).
Immediate help would be just dandy.
Here's the whole scenario so feel free to comment on this ridiculous situation I put myself into as well if you like.
I was at the internet-coffee place and was having difficulty accessing the internet connection. As has happened before, I had a fine and dandy signal....but when mozilla or anything else didn't recognize that I was connected.
I finally found one box that i would check-mark that says 'allow me to connect via this blah blah blah'. But after checking that box...and then opening it again...it would be unchecked.
I thought maybe I picked up a stupid bug somewhere in there that was unchecking this box.
I did a couple of different system-restores to a week or two ago to try to fix it....
THEN - in the middle of one of the system-restores my battery died.
This REALLY messed up my computer.
After getting home and reconnecting I saw that mozilla-firefox and all party skins were missing.
I'm thinking that the restore just hadn't gotten to those yet when it got cut-off.
I tried restoring again....but afterwards it says there were no changes (and it remains exactly the same).
When it's restoring....it looks like the little progress-bar goes to about the same point where it was when it died earlier....and that's where it finishes.
Anyway...the system-restore stuff isn't working and I seem to have f'ed things up pretty good.
I was hoping to take advantage of the situation and see if I could at least set up a new account at one of the skins....but when I click 'new-user' it does not access the page via IE (I haven't reinstalled firefox yet....but the deault for the party skins is IE anyway).
Okay...blast-away at my total incompetence if you like.
However....if Windows weren't so damn problematic in the first place I wouldn't have gotten myself in this situation.
But...before you blast-away....please tell me where the setting is to allow the other sites such as the poker-rooms to open their pages via IE.
Thanks for any help.