Technical Support Central....How May I Help You?

Comment #5

four4me — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:33:26 GMT

Somewhere at some time something happened to active x controls I manually went in the pc and used default settings and manually turned them on and off no success. So I fear it's time to turn the old clunker over to the professionals to fix or scrap out the old hardware and build or buy a new pc. <br

Comment #4

Todd — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:41:13 GMT

I sympathize with your troubleshooting woes. I experience some of that myself. -Todd

Comment #3

Rip Snorter — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:42:52 GMT

One of the less cool results is that my comp does what you described is happening to the comp of your friend, that I don't have a clue what you're talking about doing to fix it, though I do know how to do a system restore and the other thing, rebuild or some such thing where you wipe everything and begin again with a new computer, which I've done a number of times. Tough gig being a techie. But if a lousy thank you wasn't what yo had in mind you could pass that perception on to... [ More ]

Comment #2

truecritic — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:55:40 GMT

Here are a couple of forums - there are others, Google is your friend. http://www.annoyances.org http://forums.techguy.org I guess this is mainly for comments by four4me.... Internet Explorer 6 works just fine without any updates whatsoever. I have IE6 Windows 98se and refuse updates. If you have Windows 98, you can only update to SP1 - not SP2. SP2 is for Windows XP or Windows 2000. And both are mainly security updates. Updates change many se... [ More ]

Comment #1

four4me — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:35:36 GMT

So I open the explorer browser and click critical updates and low and behold I get a message that says unable to open security updates. In fact it is unable to view and info on my PC to determine if there are updates to install. It says click this blue link to trouble shoot your problem there is a message code that for all intentional purposes I had hoped would direct me to an easy fix. Not! it opened a page that said do this and do that so I copy and paste it and print it out because I kn... [ More ]

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