Dear all,
Just seen this post.
I agree with the 1st post - I've been having exactly this problem, and also only for the last couple of days.
Like the 1st post writer I suspect, I am not at all savvy when it comes to PCs - they are a necessary evil which simply allow me to do my "work work" plus gain lots of info and enterntainment from Forums like this one.
Before any of you PC geeks (no disrespect intended) start rabbitting on about Chrome and Mac and all the rest of it, let me just say that I've only upgraded my Internet Explorer from version 7 to version 8 just recently (becasue I was forced into it by a particular web site) and I've never heard of version 10! I have no idea how to get hold of Chrome or any other of these miracle cures, and even if I did, I bet you all a pound to a pinch of anything you like that if I did go to all the trouble of finding it/them and downloading and starting it/them, then I'd then have all sorts of other troubles in making it run. I've been resisting ANY updates and/or changes fiercely for ages now, and that includes a determination to stick to MS XP for as long as I possibly can (and I keep resisting all the upgrades to Skype, Acrobat, and god knows what else)!
Why? Because although there is no doubt that SOME updates do have some genuine advantages and improvements over earlier versions, IMHO, the advantages are generally pretty small and the VAST majority of the changes are just made to make the thing look "prettier" and justify a higher price. And this "prettiness" generally comes at a huge cost to the user - e.g. all the commands and drop down menus are in different places and often have slightly different functions, etc, etc, etc. The net result is that poor old me, as a self-confessed Luddite who refuses to bow to the generally profit-only motivated blandishments of the software marketing flower arrangers has simply resulted in another period of many months while yours truly slowly but surely gets used to the "new" and (supposedly better) way of doing the simple daily tasks - a process that usually takes me MONTHS before I'm up and comfortable again!
OK, anti software update rant over!!!!
Now can someone who knows all this stuff AND who can put directions into simple clear step by step English PLEASE kindly take the time to explain to me what I have to do to solve this annoying problem which only happens with this Forum and only over the last 2 or 3 days - I stress that I have changed absolutely nothing at my end and don't even know how to put my Internet Explorer into private mode or whatever it's called, and certainly have no idea how to produce a list of all those advertising sites that someone has listed above.
Thanks in advance to anyone who is computer savvy eniough and has the kindness and patience to get this crusty old curmudgeon back up and running properly on what is to me, one of the most interesting and valuable Forums around - UKW.
AES
