Recent content by DingusQ

I was thinking this might have something to do with upgrading WMP 9 (which came on the computer) to WMP 11. Because in addition to IE and OE not functioning, WMP was being flakey. I could open the program and play a music file, but the controls would freeze up, the status bar would be stuck on...

I'm not ignoring this thread, nor has the problem disappeared. I have tried something I hope is a fix, but I want to wait to explain what I think has been going on. DingusQ

Hey thanks! I went to the Samsung faqs and they recommended using the auto adjust button and that fixed it. I only assumed something was wrong because it was only the left side of the screen that was distorted. A few nights ago I downloaded a Netflix miovie and watched it. I had to adjust the...

I have a Samsung SyncMaster 913v flat panel monitor that I bought about a year and a half ago. Lately I've noticed something amiss with the left side of the screen. Text along that side of the monitor seems a little too dark, or maybe a bit fuzzy (kind of hard to describe). Could it mean the...

This prolem occurred again this morning. I was able to do a ping, so I know the computer was connected. I couldn't check the router because IE wouldn't load completely. That's the problem: IE and OE don't load right. (And maybe other programs don't load right, I don't know, since the first thing...

It's not a problem that shows up every day, just occasionally. The first thing I do when it happens is reboot the router as that goes down a couple times a week. But the router was up yesterday (I could get on line with another computer in the network). Usually I just reboot the problem computer...

I get this problem occasionally when I boot up my computer in the morning (HP xw4400 workstation, Windows XP pro). I'm connected to the internet via a cable modem and a linksys wrt54g router. Sometimes IE 7 and OE 6 refuse to function. It's not a modem or router issue, because other computers on...

I have a strange problem with one computer running XP Home SP 2. There is some program running that regularly causes the desktop to come up. This can happen while playing a game or when the screensaver is running (I don’t notice it happening while working with other apps). I can't really tell...

I figured out an answer to this problem. I got a break when I noticed the list-flickering was gone after I disabled all startup programs. By selectively restoring them I was able to find the culprit: Intellipoint 6.01. If you search Google Groups by date on the words "Intellipoint problem"...

In OE I have only POP3 accounts. Something I've noticed with both OE and Windows Explorer, it's only open or expanded folders that refresh. So, in the left pane (of either OE or Explorer), if a folder is expanded to show sub-folders, only the sub folders refresh. If individual emails are listed...

I don't close OE after I check my email everytime. If I did, or if I closed the Inbox, I would expect that the email window would refresh when I opened it again. I leave OE open, it checks for email every ten minutes, and when I hear that ding-dong, I bring OE back up. Then after about 5 seconds...

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP 2. Outlook Express (ver.6.00.2900.2180) has an annoying tendency to refresh the email list of the inbox whenever I return to OE from another application. It's like a quick blink of the window and it only does it once, whenever I return to look at my email. This...

I figured out what was wrong. With this particular website (dslreports.com), I have to be logged in for the flyouts to work. I had requested to stayed logged in all the time on the one computer where the flyouts worked. I did this on the other computers, now the flyouts work everywhere. Thanks...

I have three computers, all running XP SP2 and IE 7. On one, when I'm looking at a certain website forum (dslreports.com), if I hold my mouse pointer over the title of a post I get a flyout with all or most of the post in it. Very convenient. Saves me having to click on the post to read it. But...

I'm getting ready to retire my Windows 98 computer. I added a 40 GB drive to this machine about 3 years ago, It's only 1/3 full. I was wondering if I can just pull it out and put it into my Win XP machine, also as a slave ddrive. Will the data be available on the new computer, or do I need to...