TOTALLY O.T. - Browser/forum problem help!

[dongle]

Now this is really getting on my T!TS. for some reason, my browser (IE 6 on Win 98) has just decided, out of the blue, to stop refreshing when I go into the main or sub-indexes on the forum. I can do it manually by hitting refresh fine, but it no longer does it automatically. I have not changed any settings, or changed any preferences, but after about 5 minutes on here this morning I had a strange glitch, where no matter what I did with the mouse, whenver I moved the mouse in any direction, the page scrolled up and down all over the shop. Since then, no refreshing. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

Any ideas folks?

[pgoelz]

Basically I don't have a clue but..... do you have a mouse with a scroll wheel? Are you using anything other than the Windows mouse driver? You might try re-installing the mouse driver if you are not using the MS version.

Other than that, I dunno. Never seen that here.

Dongle, I can tell you exactly what your problem is. You are using Windows. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Go buy yourself a Mac.

[dongle]

Many thanks for all your remarkably helpful replies... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

I am on the scroll mouse paul - I will try a reload!

Believe me, given half the chance, a powerful hand gun and a small room with me and master-gates in it and I would put an end once and for all of this micro-soft (apparently a name his old girlfriend came up with, he just did not realise she was refering to his genitals at the time)

I have got a Mac at home (sorry, the wife has a mac at home), but it's a little psat it's sell by date - about 6 years past [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Ockie007]

Soft reset of the pc should clear this

[Ockie007]

Don't mess with any peripheral setups until you have carried out the above post. Or you will be chasing your tail and never get it right.

[dongle]

just tried - no change [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

I wonder if bouncing it off the pavement outside might help....

[HARRomeo]

Dongle, use the Logout function of the BBS and then log back in. I've had this problem before and that always cleared it up for me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[dongle]

Hmmmm.. didn't have quite the desired effect - I now have all posts marked as read! still, it appears to be refreshing at least [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Now all I've got to do is sort the mouse out - I know, I'll swap my PC with one of the secretaries while she's at lunch - that should solve my problem [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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You are using Windows. Go buy yourself a Mac.

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I second that [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

The day Micro$oft makes a product which doesn't suck, will be the day when they make a vacuum cleaner .... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]