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Script and Shockwave
It might provide a clue if you post the actual messages
and webpages where it's happening. Also, you might try a Firefox extension. This one will block Flash and allow you to enable it only if it's actually necessary to the page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/ (Often Flash is only for ads. All-Flash websites exist, but they're not common. Typically that would be a very graphical site, like maybe a movie homepage.) There's also an extension called NoScript that allows you to selectively block script. It's very well designed. I find that in the rare cases where I need to enable script at all, I can usually enable only the script from the current URL using NoScript. Pages have become so bloated these days that many are loading gigantic javascript "libraries" from places like Google, in addition to scripts from one or more tracking or advertising companies. They can add 500 KB to a 50 KB webpage. But most or all of that is usually not needed for webpage functionality. (A notable exception would be remote shopping cart services.) Your Inspiron is perfectly adequate for just about anything other than memory intensive jobs, like editing 20 MB photos. I have 4 GB RAM while you probably have 1/2 GB RAM. But I only have 4 GB because it was a single stick and very cheap. XP 32-bit can only see about 3 GB anyway. I had 1/2 GB for many years and never had any trouble with that. Which is very different from Vista/7, which is a notably bloated system. If you put Win7 on your Inspiron there wouldn't be enough RAM for it to even just sit there showing a Desktop. (Tangent thought: If you can't afford a new computer you might consider making a disk image of Windows to store on a CD or DVD. It's very likely that the first thing to go will be the hard disk, and if you don't have a full restore CD then you would lose XP for good if the hard disk dies. With a disk image you can just buy a new disk for $50, install the image, and you're back in business.) "tonita" wrote in message ... I have a Dell Inspiron 600m that I bought new in 2005. I know, it's old but works and I can't afford a new computer at this time. Lately I've been getting running script errors and shockwave flash errors and it hangs up the computer seemingly forever. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks |
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Script and Shockwave
From: "tonita"
On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:43:55 AM UTC-5, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "tonita" I use Firefox. Same thing. I mean, I know the computer is old but isn't there any way to clean this up? What happens when you go to the same site via Internet Explorer (IE). "...but isn't there any way to clean this up" Clean what up ? You haven't posted the exact error messages not posted a screenshot of the messages such that "this" can be determined. So that is the next step. We need the EXACT error messages or a screenshot of the error message in context. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Will help me help you!
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message ...
From: "tonita" On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:43:55 AM UTC-5, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "tonita" I use Firefox. Same thing. I mean, I know the computer is old but isn't there any way to clean this up? What happens when you go to the same site via Internet Explorer (IE). "...but isn't there any way to clean this up" Clean what up ? You haven't posted the exact error messages not posted a screenshot of the messages such that "this" can be determined. So that is the next step. We need the EXACT error messages or a screenshot of the error message in context. You 100% Right As we always say Exact error messages Will help me help you |
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ScreenShot The Error
"tonita"
toni_brightman @yahoo.com wrote in message news:ee233f6b-7fb3-49eb-b87d-34e6e546e91b @googlegroups.com... I have a Dell Inspiron 600m that I bought new in 2005. I know, it's old but works and I can't afford a new computer at this time. Lately I've been getting running script errors and shockwave flash errors and it hangs up the computer seemingly forever. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks Screen Shot The Error for us Tonita http://www.gadwin.com/download/ Download now! MSI 32 bit MSI 64 bit Gadwin PrintScreen Version Gadwin PrintScreen 5.0 freeware Platforms Windows® 2008, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x And Windows Server 2012 Date 02/04/14 Size 11.6 MB |
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Good flash addon/"flashblock"/ Info By: Mayayana
"Mayayana"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/ (Often Flash is only for ads. All-Flash websites exist, but they're not common. Typically that would be a very graphical site, like maybe a movie homepage.) There's also an extension called NoScript that allows you to selectively block script. It's very well designed. I find that in the rare cases where I need to enable script at all, I can usually enable only the script from the current URL using NoScript. Good Link |
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Script and Shockwave
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:00:52 -0800 (PST), tonita
wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 600m that I bought new in 2005. I know, it's old but works and I can't afford a new computer at this time. Lately I've been getting running script errors and shockwave flash errors and it hangs up the computer seemingly forever. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks Do you get a box that say the script is stuck in a loop, or something that might mean that? They ask if you want to continue running the script or stop. They also have a checkbox that says Don't ask me this again. I always check the box, and click stop, but it always asks again. I presume that that's because it's a different script each time, though I don't write down the script name and check if each one is different. |
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Good flash addon/"flashblock"/ Info By: Mayayana
In message , Hot-Text
writes: "Mayayana" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/ (Often Flash is only for ads. All-Flash websites exist, but they're not common. Typically that would be a very graphical site, like maybe a movie homepage.) There's also an extension called NoScript that allows you to selectively block script. It's very well designed. I find that in the rare cases where I need to enable script at all, I can usually enable only the script from the current URL using NoScript. Good Link There's also YesScript (I can't remember if it has two Ss and can't check ATM), which I found more amenable to my way of working. IIRR, one (I can't remember which is which) operates with a blacklist, blocking scripts from sites on a list it helps you maintain, and the other a whitelist, only _allowing_ scripts from such a list. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf We like to get up at the crack of noon - Kathy Lette (on her fellow Aussies), RT 2014/1/11-17 |
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Will help me help you!
Don't know how to do a "screen shot". I do believe the messages are not the same but different on different websites and random. I do get the "stop script" or continue message and I always click on "stop script". The shockwave flash error sometimes comes up, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I get Firefox "not responding" and it just hangs up for a while.
I'm not an expert, just a "user" so a lot of this stuff goes over my head. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:37:51 PM UTC-5, Hot-Text wrote: "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "tonita" On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:43:55 AM UTC-5, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "tonita" I use Firefox. Same thing. I mean, I know the computer is old but isn't there any way to clean this up? What happens when you go to the same site via Internet Explorer (IE). "...but isn't there any way to clean this up" Clean what up ? You haven't posted the exact error messages not posted a screenshot of the messages such that "this" can be determined. So that is the next step. We need the EXACT error messages or a screenshot of the error message in context. You 100% Right As we always say Exact error messages Will help me help you |
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Will help me help you!
From: "tonita"
Don't know how to do a "screen shot". I do believe the messages are not the same but different on different websites and random. I do get the "stop script" or continue message and I always click on "stop script". The shockwave flash error sometimes comes up, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I get Firefox "not responding" and it just hangs up for a while. I'm not an expert, just a "user" so a lot of this stuff goes over my head. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...reen=windows-8 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173884 http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Will help me help you, keep with David
"tonita"
Work with "David H. Lipman" He good when it came to Script and Shockwave Do as he ask No an expert needed for users You Said: so a lot of this stuff Goes over my head. That's Ok You need not know it all Mr. Lipman we help you step by step To work it out or help you Fix If you see new Post of not by Lipman Just Read the Info But keep with David |
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Will help me help you, keep with David
I have been trying to post this but somehow it's not going through. Anyway there are two script messages. One is fbstatid.a-akamid.net/rsrc.php/v2/yb/adpy19905y.js:16 (hope that's right) and 2wharethis.combuttonbuttons,31.. And the there's the shockwave flash error too.
I've made up my mind that I'm going to get a new computer in the next few weeks but I would like to give this one to my son. Would it be better just to wipe out the hard drive and reload the OS? On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:20:38 PM UTC-5, Hot-Text wrote: "tonita" Work with "David H. Lipman" He good when it came to Script and Shockwave Do as he ask No an expert needed for users You Said: so a lot of this stuff Goes over my head. That's Ok You need not know it all Mr. Lipman we help you step by step To work it out or help you Fix If you see new Post of not by Lipman Just Read the Info But keep with David |
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Will help me help you, keep with David
tonita wrote:
I have been trying to post this but somehow it's not going through. Anyway there are two script messages. One is fbstatid.a-akamid.net/rsrc.php/v2/yb/adpy19905y.js:16 (hope that's right) and 2wharethis.combuttonbuttons,31. And the there's the shockwave flash error too. I've made up my mind that I'm going to get a new computer in the next few weeks but I would like to give this one to my son. Would it be better just to wipe out the hard drive and reload the OS? Now would be a good time to reload the OS, then visit Windows Update and get all the updates. When you're finished reloading the software and creating an account for your son, you can use a program like Macrium Reflect Free to make a backup copy of C: . (See the green download link, lower left corner. It uses a CNET stub installer. Accept the defaults, and get the WAIK boot CD as well. The default tick boxes in the stub installer should do that for you. The download consists of two files, and like any backup utility, you need to make a boot CD so you can boot an empty computer and restore files from another hard drive. That's in case the boot hard drive in the computer breaks in the future, and you'll need that CD to be able to boot the computer.) http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Then, if a year from now, your son complains the computer is full of malware, and won't work, you can use the Macrium CD plus an external hard drive with the backup file image on it, and restore C: . You would want to save your son's data files somewhere, before doing the restoration. That is easier, than installing the OS again a year from now, and attempting to do Windows Update afterwards. If you store a clean copy of the OS for a future date, you can restore that copy when you need it. Paul |
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