Quick computer help..

[Noodley]

...'something' appear to have gone a wee bit wrong. I cannot use smileys on the forum and keep getting error messages when trying to access my aol e-mail.

Anyone know how to remedy this? AOL may just be playing silly buggers I suppose...

 

[fossyant]

Clear cookies ? Try a re-boot !

 

[Mr Pig]

Try a re-boot !

That's nerd-speak for turn it off and back on again.

 

[Noodley]

Nope, that did not work. <sad face smiley>

 

[peanut]

sometimes that can be the worst thing to do if you suspect a virus or trogan.
I would play safe and download spysweeper and AVG and run both. They are both free . Just to be on the safe side in case you have picked up a trogan.
Everytime you reboot your PC reconfigures ,makes changes to the registry and the boot sector. If you have a virus it could make the situation 10x worse

Alternatively you could do a restore to the beginning of the week when everything was last ok .
Start, Control panel, System, system restore

 

[Noodley]

I appear to be able to use smileys over on yacf.

 

[Crackle]

If you type the smiley command i.e. : w i n k : (but without the spaces), does it work?

 

[Noodley]

well, does it?

yes

 

[Crackle]

Yep, I see a smiley.

I guess you're browsing through AOL then. If so check their support pages by bunging the error message in the search http://help.aol.co.uk/settings. Also their interactive help can be pretty useful. AOL should be taken outside quietly and shot. Open IE independently and see if it works.

 

[Noodley]

so what does that mean?

 

[Crackle]

< shakes head smiley>



Hit the start button and find Internet Explorer, start it up, go to Cyclchat and see if the smileys work. If they do it's AOL.

 

[Noodley]

I guess you're browsing through AOL then.

Mozilla Firefox.

 

[Crackle]

Mozilla Firefox.

But have you got IE on your computer to do a comparison with?

 

[Noodley]

But have you got IE on your computer to do a comparison with?

I can never get into IE, cos my computer goes 'wonky' (as in I cannot access IE) when I try. So I never bother. Cos I know what happens.

 

[bonj2]

whether you can use smileys or not is nothing to do with your computer. smileys are server side, they're basically just displayed because phpBB decidesto recognise the tags for them and render them as pictures instead of the text. If you can post text, you can post smileys.
Do you in fact mean that you can't get the smiley window up? That'll possibly be to do with your popup blocker?