Hark said:
Are you kidding me, you must be, look at this board, look at all of
the others, check the web, millions are having problems with this
browser.
After years of dealing with freezes crashes reinstalls and more
freezes calls to techies do this do that I have heard it all and done
it all.
The fact is is it is an unstable product and it must have been built
that way.
Although I dont like Opera or Mozilla as much but at least their
solid and dont falter when wind changes direction.
There is no malfunction in my system it is in the product and only the
product.
No, I am not kidding. This is a support board. People come here for
assistance. You cannot tell me you came here expecting to see praises. And
the number of posts on these boards in a given month don't come close to
approaching the number of fully functional systems without issues out
there.. And 3/4 of the problems on these message boards are because someone
doesn't understand how to do something, because of some third party
application installed (either on purpose or by malware), defective hardware
(which is what it sounds like you have) and/or lack of basic computing
common sense.
Again, I put forth that if you have a specific issue, please post it so that
someone might assist you. This is a newsgroups where people with computing
experience can help those who might not have as much experience as they do -
and it is free. Without a question or specifics, it is impossible to help.
With freezes and lockups, it might be bad ram, heat related, bad video card
or incompatable drivers. I have even seen defective (although they test
fine) power supplies being replaced and all problems going away. Did you
know that even having something plugged into the PCI slot directly adjacent
to your AGP port on your motherboard could cause unusual results in some
systems?
You could also have adware/spyware/malware of some sort. There are dozens
of free scanners out there to help you locate and elimiate them. You might
want to look into trying some of those and using them to also immunize your
system against such threats..
With the Internet so heavily a part of our lives, viruses, worms and trojans
are running rampant. A good antivirus software (maintained) and a decent
firewall (at least the one built into Windows XP) is essential these days.
You can also install other freeware applications to handle SPAM and you can
limit Windows usage of your RAM by disabling some unnecessary services. It
will speed things up and prevent other problems in the future as well - but
be sure to write down what you change, in case you need to reverse it in the
future.
You should also keep your hardware drivers up to date - never get the
hardware drivers from the windowsupdate.microsoft.com site, as the ones from
the manufacturer are usually more reliable and up to date. If you don't
know what hardware you have, you can always go to
www.belarc.com and install
and run this application and get that information and much more about your
system.
Some freezes can be temperature related.. if your case is enclosed, airflow
may be a problem.. Open it up, put a fan blowing into it.. Does that help
any - if so - you need more airflow around your PC and check all your fans.
Enough generalizing.. If you have specific problems that someone here might
assist you with, please post them..
