I know David reads my blog, and what a fountain of [computer] wisdom he is. Perhaps Kelloggsville could also have some input as she is IT savvy.
So there I was at school on Tuesday using my laptop to order stuff from Ebay such as clarinet reeds, check my personal mail (in my own time) and so on. OK, too, Wednesday morning.
Come the afternoon and I could surf the web but I could not access any sites which needed me to log on if they had https:// - This one was OK because it doesn't have the 's' although I do need to log in.
It meant all my school work was not going to Dropbox even though the proxy server settings are correct - Poo! I had to take my laptop home, boot it up at home and let Dropbox update before turning on my desktop (I do not really like typing on a laptop) and for my AV to update it seems too.
Anyway, at school I did everything I could. I cleaned the Temp files, checked Tools/Option/Advanced/SSL and Googled the issue. The Head of IT was no help. When I questioned if the fact the our network clock is 30 minutes slow he just said "It's quite hard to change, I must get onto Bloxx to see if they can do it. Every school where I have worked has had a network clock which was wrong!"
So today, after more surfing, I have found this page with a Fix it which I have run.
Fingers crossed; I'll check it on Monday.
Any comments David? Why would Windows 7 suddenly stop allowing me to log in? I am the only Windows 7 user at school; all the rest are on Vista or XP. I even upgraded to IE9 to see if it would help. Some sites now run more slowly unless I click on Compatibility View.
I wrote this page on my laptop but, for some reason, there were saving problems; I took the precaution of saving the text locally and have now come onto my desktop to complete the job.
The only major change to my laptop in the last 2 weeks has been to install iTunes which I don't use, but I need it to get some music onto a netbook which didn't have a CD drive.
Don't you just hate computers?
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This isn't my area. I have tweeted out the link though to see if someone else will pop in and help you. K
Kelloggsville: Thank you.
do you get any wrror messages or just it just sit on a blank page. Some extra information about what it does would probably be useful.
OK, no long comment (as per your request at my blog :-)), since you've not yet tested the fix offered by kb/813444 (which contains all the usual fixes for the issue in Windows--whatever mostly-contemporary version(s)).
If the procedure (or the Fixit) there does NOT solve your problem, then you may be the victim of a browser hijacking, for which the fixes range from easy-peasy to moderately time-consuming but not all that hard to accomplish. Let me know if the fix you applied doesn't work, 'K?
"...I need it to get some music onto a netbook which didn't have a CD drive."
Sidebar: I hate iTunes--in fact just about any Apple software. Every computer I've had any Apple software on, the stuff has tried to Borg my computer (wants to own everything it can open/manage) and had to be beat down with a Big Stick.
I store music I want to access on other computers--especially computers not on my own local network--either in a Dropbox account or my Amazon Cloud account (unlimited mp3 storage). I use Skydrive (unlimited storage of Microsoft Office docs), Gladinet and UbuntuOne for other types of files. Easy-peasy. I frequently pick music for play on a little netbook right off my Amazon Cloud account. It might be a workable solution for you as well.
David: Re itunes: it would not be my software of choice but the guy who is going to use the netbook is familiar with it.
I have a similar aversion to Quicktime - Windows Media player is good enough for me.
*heh* Windows Media Player is OK, I suppose. Since I'm back and forth on Windows and 'nix computers all the time, I've grown to like using VLC Media Player, since it's available cross-platform and actually seems to handle more media types more easily than WMP. *shrugs* Different strokes and all that, though I've never really been able to understand how some folks can let QuickTime and iTunes control their media: foreshadowing of Big Brother, not yet in government clothing. Heck, even WMP causes undue problems with DRM issues, in my experience, just less hassle (less evil *heh*) than the Apple softwares.
Apple makes some very nice hardware, but its software gives me the creeps. YMMV.
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