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Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
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Old versions of software
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, January 12, 2008
at 1:15 PM (Pacific)
OldVersion.comLabels: internet
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Internet Explorer 7 keeps redrawing screen on Windows XP SP2
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, January 10, 2008
at 10:19 PM (Pacific)
I have IE 7 running on several WinXP Service Pack 2 computers. It works fine on some, but on one, you could hardly use it, particularly for viewing pages with a lot of components. Every time you tried to scroll, it redrew the screen, giving you an annoying flashing screen experience.
Perhaps you are thinking, "Who gives a toss? I use Firefox," but the problem is, some programs work only in IE.
Figuring this had to be a known issue, I found this page after some searching:
IE7 slow scrolling
Particularly note this part:
Try to disable visual styles (Internet Options - Advanced - Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in webpages). I did that and IE7 scrolling performance is equal to IE6.
So far it seems to work; it's not perfect, but much better than before.Labels: internet explorer, windows xp
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Blogger: stack overflow at line 54 part 2
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
at 10:28 PM (Pacific)
See part 1.
I encountered this again recently on someone else's blog. I googled the error, but all I could seem to find were versions of my crappy half-assed solution that I slapped up almost two years ago, on the assumption that Blogger would take care of it.
It's not caused by turning the backlinks feature on or off. It's caused by old Blogger templates. If you choose a new template for your blog, the error should disappear.
Note: if you've customized your template at all, do a Select All, Copy and Paste a copy of your template in a text editor such as Notepad, Wordpad, et cetera (anything that supports unformatted text files) before replacing your template.Labels: blogger.com
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Rules automatically created for the program: Symantec LiveUpdate part 3
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, September 29, 2007
at 9:57 AM (Pacific)
Okay...here's what seems to work. You do the Google Answers thing...open NIS 2005, personal firewall, configure, programs. Select all the programs in the box, remove, run the program scan.
Once that's done, follow the prompts and Finish. Look for the entries in the box that say Symantec LiveUpdate. Change them all to Permit All (rather than Automatic). Restart your computer.
Because you've just deleted all of the firewall entries, NIS will prompt you every time a new program tries to access the Internet. Proceed as you normally would.
One of the prompts will be for Symantec LiveUpdate. As soon as you see this, pop open NIS again and double check the Symantec LiveUpdate entries. If any now says Automatic, change it to Permit All. I had to do this only once and so far it seems to have worked (I checked back a few times after that).
I don't know if it's relevant, but I had installed iTunes (don't ask) right before the popup starting popping up. I went back and uninstalled it (I don't need it). Then I noticed Apple had installed some other junk on my computer so I went back and uninstalled that too.
Bet you fifty bucks it was the iTunes.Labels: apple, norton, symantec
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Rules automatically created for the program: Symantec LiveUpdate part 2
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, September 28, 2007
at 9:53 AM (Pacific)
I can see this is going to turn into a saga.
I tried this last night: Rules automatically created for the program: Symantec LiveUpdate. It worked last night.
After I booted up again this morning, the popup reappeared. Tried this:
(Okay, it was in Google Answers, now I can't find it. It involved running the same program scan, then manually configuring the LiveUpdate entries to "permit all," then restarting the computer.)
This doesn't work either.
I highly suspect one of the Symantec updates screwed it up in the first place. I don't know if it's sheer incompetence, or a sordid attempt to force Norton users to "upgrade" to a newer version of NIS, but it SUCKS. It's UNNECESSARY, there should be NOTHING TO FIX.Labels: norton, symantec
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