Re: Unable to ask a question on this site!

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"ukhuman1st" <> wrote in message
news:FCE962A2-5D8A-457F-A2D0-...
> When I first tried to ask a question on this site I had to log on using Live
> ID. After doing so, I navigated back to ask a question about importing
> photos from my digital camera. But when I clicked on 'New' and 'Question' my
> computer just beeped.


Sounds like signal that a popup blocker has done its thing? ; }
Usually the symptom is that the user doesn't even get the tiny popup menu.
Perhaps you are only slightly luckier than those users? <eg>

Does your popup blocker have a way of bypassing its effect?
E.g. press Alt-Ctrl- when clicking?


> Clicking other options gave same result. This has
> happened to me before on other sites I have visited. Closing IE7 and
> re-opening did not help so maybe this is not a browser problem.

Not a standard browser problem anyway.

> The only solution I have found is to re-start the computer...

Does that mean you changed your Home page to the page you were on
or something like that? Otherwise I have no idea what effect this would
have, unless you have some really slow startup procedures... ; )

Does Vista still have a safe mode boot? Can you bypass its normal startup
by pressing Shift- during the boot. Etc. Do such things make the symptom
change?


> which is how I got to ask this question!! But does anyone know why I should be losing
> functionality like this?.. it's a nuisance to have to keep re-booting.
>
> (PS I find Vista does strange things with my power management..


Off topic for the IE NG.


> sometimes it
> won't switch off even though the monitor is no longer receiving a signal.
> And occasionally I have found it has re-booted itself after I've left it a
> while: and has a message about having closed down unexpectedly. I have Trend
> PcCillin Internet Security 2007.)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
---

Hi Robert... thanks for your help. I did notice a pop-up so I clicked on the
option to always allow pop-ups from this site. It didn't make any difference.
It was only by going out, re-booting and coming back in that functionality
was restored. But I got in OK tonight so maybe whatever the problem was, it
has gone away.... for the time being.

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> (cross-post added to Vista General)
> "ukhuman1st" <> wrote in message
> news:FCE962A2-5D8A-457F-A2D0-...
> > When I first tried to ask a question on this site I had to log on using Live
> > ID. After doing so, I navigated back to ask a question about importing
> > photos from my digital camera. But when I clicked on 'New' and 'Question' my
> > computer just beeped.
>
>
> Sounds like signal that a popup blocker has done its thing? ; }
> Usually the symptom is that the user doesn't even get the tiny popup menu.
> Perhaps you are only slightly luckier than those users? <eg>
>
> Does your popup blocker have a way of bypassing its effect?
> E.g. press Alt-Ctrl- when clicking?
>
>
> > Clicking other options gave same result. This has
> > happened to me before on other sites I have visited. Closing IE7 and
> > re-opening did not help so maybe this is not a browser problem.
>
> Not a standard browser problem anyway.
>
> > The only solution I have found is to re-start the computer...
>
> Does that mean you changed your Home page to the page you were on
> or something like that? Otherwise I have no idea what effect this would
> have, unless you have some really slow startup procedures... ; )
>
> Does Vista still have a safe mode boot? Can you bypass its normal startup
> by pressing Shift- during the boot. Etc. Do such things make the symptom
> change?
>
>
> > which is how I got to ask this question!! But does anyone know why I should be losing
> > functionality like this?.. it's a nuisance to have to keep re-booting.
> >
> > (PS I find Vista does strange things with my power management..
>
>
> Off topic for the IE NG.
>
>
> > sometimes it
> > won't switch off even though the monitor is no longer receiving a signal.
> > And occasionally I have found it has re-booted itself after I've left it a
> > while: and has a message about having closed down unexpectedly. I have Trend
> > PcCillin Internet Security 2007.)
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>