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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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 Posted - May 27 2009 : 09:14:27 AM
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I feel so frustrated right now. I have a small laptop that I usually use that totally crapped out on me. For a few days, it's been acting freaky....the mouse would get hosed up, then the screen would go blue with warning messages. Then I would have to reboot. It would also freeze up. Yesterday, I tried to leave feedback on Etsy. After leaving the feedback, I would hit 'submit', then it wouldn't do anything. I tried a few times, no good. On their forum, I sent a post inquiring if there was a problem with their site and there wasn't. Today, I got back on and all of a sudden one of the icons had a message to check security. I clicked onto it, and it wouldn't open. Then I tried to click on an Explorer browser and it faded out. I couldn't open up a browser. Then suddenly something weird happened that I've never seen before. I got a message that Explorer has no 'feed'....???? Everything seems to be wiped out. Obviously, a virus killed my computer. A while back, when that virus (can't remember the name) was on the news, on top of the protection that I have, I bought another protection package for added security. I have another computer (which I'm typing on) as a backup....which, by the way, I just got back from Geek Squad because of another problem. When will it all end? I keep bringing in these pieces of **** to be fixed. When one dies out on me, and I get it fixed, the other dies. I really think that technology and computers in the long run are the root of all evil!!
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - May 27 2009 : 10:03:24 AM
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You have to be careful running two virus protection programs at the same time. That often causes locking up and all sorts of malfunctions. The programs basically fight each other. When one scans the files the other thinks it's a virus and tries to shut it down which makes the other program thing the other is a virus and since they are already accessing your computer files the programs start trying to lock them down to "protect" them.
Alee
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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Posted - May 27 2009 : 10:15:27 AM
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That's a good point, Alee. I never thought of that. When I bought the secondary package, I thought it would enhance the protection. Now that I remember, the second package advertised that it boosted protection of existing packages. I guess I'll have to bring this one in. *sigh*
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Faransgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
895 Posts
Beth
Houston
Texas
USA
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 7:41:17 PM
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My daughters boyfriend who is a help desk computer tech says that you can google the error message and that will usually give you something to go on. Not knowing the actual wording of the message he can't google it for you but you can do it with the computer that is working. So whatever is says when it says it has no "feed" google that message.
Hope that helps
Farmgirl Sister #572
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 6:18:13 PM
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Thanks, Beth. As aggrevating as having a computer is at times, one of the benefits is 'googling'. You can find out anything there. It's a great source. I'll have to try it.
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