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re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:10 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) If you're not running Windows ME, you need to post on the appropriate forum. There's a forum for every Windows OS on this site, so why are you here? Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:51 am Posted by John (66 messages posted) Carol.. sheer desperation I guess and I apologise. I did post this problem on win 98(the correct forum) but solicited no replies and despite much searching on line cant find anyone who has made the same stupid mistake as me. John. On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:10 pm, Carol J wrote: > >If you're not running Windows ME, you need to post on the appropriate forum. There's >a forum for every Windows OS on this site, so why are you here? > > > >color="006699">Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 10:30 pm Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) There are two obvious possibilities, and both are applicable to Win 98 and to Win ME. Reboot to DOS. Then issue this command at the C:> prompt: SCANREG /RESTORE and restore a previous good copy of the Registry dated before the problem occured. If the problem occured more than 5 days ago, and your machine only keeps backups for 5 days, issue this command: SCANREG /FIX and wait patiently! It may take MORE THAN 10 minutes. Your PC may appear to freeze, but this is normal. Wait patiently! Ed On Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:51 am, John wrote: >Carol.. sheer desperation I guess and I apologise. >I did post this problem on win 98(the correct forum) but solicited no replies and >despite much searching on line cant find anyone who has made the same stupid mistake >as me. John. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 11:08 am Posted by John (66 messages posted) Many thanks ...Im going to give it a shot... Ive nothing to lose except my sanity. The hour glass drives me nuts. Thanks again .. John. On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 7:47 am, John wrote: >most problems I get on the pc are self-inflicted..this is no exception. I was half >way through downloading Stopzilla and decided it was going on too long . I had two >or three attempts to stop it downloading before it finally did just that. Then I >cleared out all the files I could find associated with it. Now I have a really annoying >intermitant problem. When I return to desk top after surfing and either click on >shutdown or even Int explorer again...the hour glass icon kicks in and no action. >This does not happen every time.When I try Ctrl Alt Del it comes up with 'Explorer' >After a long wait the problem may clear but not always. Ive virus checked and also >used Spybot.Please help .... John. >ps I dont have Windows Me but have a shrewd idea that it doesnt make any difference >in this case. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) Do what I said in my previous post anyway. But it occurs to me that this symptom suggests you had done a partial download, and the download is trying to resume. But of course it can't, because you've deleted all the Stopzilla files. So it goes up a dead-end loop, and you're stuffed! Do you have a download manager installed? Perhaps integrated into Internet Explorer? That will be what's causing it to try to resume the download. Give it the old three finger salute, and kill the download - which might be an incompletely closed instance of Internet Explorer. You would be best with a stand-alone download manager. Having one as a plug-in for IE can cause problems. Ed On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 7:47 am, John wrote: >most problems I get on the pc are self-inflicted..this is no exception. I was half >way through downloading Stopzilla and decided it was going on too long . I had two >or three attempts to stop it downloading before it finally did just that. Then I >cleared out all the files I could find associated with it. Now I have a really annoying >intermitant problem. When I return to desk top after surfing and either click on >shutdown or even Int explorer again...the hour glass icon kicks in and no action. >This does not happen every time.When I try Ctrl Alt Del it comes up with 'Explorer' >After a long wait the problem may clear but not always. Ive virus checked and also >used Spybot.Please help .... John. >ps I dont have Windows Me but have a shrewd idea that it doesnt make any difference >in this case. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon Friday, March 9, 2007 at 12:35 am Posted by John (66 messages posted) Ed you were right, not sure how I managed it but following your advice the problem and hourglass have gone, eureka!!! Many thanks again for your help.. John. On Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm, Ed wrote: > >Do what I said in my previous post anyway. > >But it occurs to me that this symptom suggests you had done a partial download, and >the download is trying to resume. But of course it can't, because you've deleted >all the Stopzilla files. So it goes up a dead-end loop, and you're stuffed! > >Do you have a download manager installed? Perhaps integrated into Internet Explorer? >That will be what's causing it to try to resume the download. > >Give it the old three finger salute, and kill the download - which might be an incompletely >closed instance of Internet Explorer. > >You would be best with a stand-alone download manager. Having one as a plug-in for >IE can cause problems. > >Ed > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum