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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: pauls on 25 September 2013, 16:49:41
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I have asked the question before but nothing seem to solve it. I knows its hard to answer what you cant see, but here goes.
example I was trying to download a game for my boy and it came up saying you may need adobe shockwave plugin. I follow the link and press download and it starts to download then comes up with cant find webpage (it does this on everything I try so I know its something to do with the computer setting but cannot find out what)
Can anybody point me in the right direction please. I have disabled ad-ons also disabled pop up blocker. but nothing seem to allow it thru.
system is dell. windows xp. using internet expoler. Anti-virus is microsoft ess.
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Have you tried installing shockwave from adobe direct http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/)
That is about all I can think of sorry.
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Not being rude but as said i cant download/install anything
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what happens when u click the link above
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Same as above says it cant find it or wont download
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Sorry, did not read it properly, are you the administrator or using a limited account ?
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Neither. just a user
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Not being rude but as said i cant download/install anything
When you say cant download Anything, do mean anything (nothing), ie normal day to day downloading?, if this is the case then could be a Virus, normally starts by not letting you update your Anti Virus.
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Is this your own PC, or a work provided one?
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Neither. just a user
you dont have appropriate rights to download..
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Neither. just a user
you dont have appropriate rights to download..
Yep. Log in as an admin and try again. Then log out as an admin, or else Jaime will smack your bottie.
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Have you tried installing shockwave from adobe direct http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/)
That is about all I can think of sorry.
Just tried this again and it opens the download page so that I can click on the start download button, once i do this it moves onto the next bit but i am left with a empty screen,
Not being rude but as said i cant download/install anything
When you say cant download Anything, do mean anything (nothing), ie normal day to day downloading?, if this is the case then could be a Virus, normally starts by not letting you update your Anti Virus.
Day to day downloads work ok I can look at utube etc, it just seems to be when i want to run a software update. The last time I asked this question i was trying to run the scan details from cruccial.com to see what ram I have.
Is this your own PC, or a work provided one?
I bought this second hand and i think it was a ex works.
If I have to log in as a admin how do i do this.
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Have you tried installing shockwave from adobe direct http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/)
That is about all I can think of sorry.
Just tried this again and it opens the download page so that I can click on the start download button, once i do this it moves onto the next bit but i am left with a empty screen,
Not being rude but as said i cant download/install anything
When you say cant download Anything, do mean anything (nothing), ie normal day to day downloading?, if this is the case then could be a Virus, normally starts by not letting you update your Anti Virus.
Day to day downloads work ok I can look at utube etc, it just seems to be when i want to run a software update. The last time I asked this question i was trying to run the scan details from cruccial.com to see what ram I have.
Is this your own PC, or a work provided one?
I bought this second hand and i think it was a ex works.
It probably has all kinds of privileges set.
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Rebuild it
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Recently had the same thing on a friends laptop.Wouldn't install or update.Turned out to be a simple fix.Check the date and time. If these are wrong it can cause problems.
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Recently had the same thing on a friends laptop.Wouldn't install or update.Turned out to be a simple fix.Check the date and time. If these are wrong it can cause problems.
Talking of the above I do have to press the f1 key every time i turn on the computer. It states that the battery on the board is dead. Would this really cause my problem, if so how would i change this.
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if the battery is dead on the mother board the bios will revert back to a wrong date and time as the battery supplies the power to hold information in the bios memory when pc is switched off. normally fairly easy to replace if you look on the motherboard look for a big button size battery looks similar to battery in your key fob. get the model number and buy a replacement and change them. once changed when the pc starts up go into bios and set date and time and then this will then not be needed to be done again for a few years probably longer than you will lkeep the pc
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Afraid to say changing the battery didnt work. Still get nothing or warning comes up "cant find or cant open file"
Anymore ideas welcome.
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Afraid to say changing the battery didnt work. Still get nothing or warning comes up "cant find or cant open file"
Anymore ideas welcome.
Whilst the useless student is still localish to you, ask him to rebuild it. If the CMOS battery is shafted, I guess its old, probably not worth the effort to replace that battery.
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its got nothing to do with date.. first you need to log in with admin rights.. re-build it.. then you will correct date-time whatever
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Quick update. I dont know why i did it, but i installed chrome and everything worked and it works a lost faster. All good for me. :y
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Quick update. I dont know why i did it, but i installed chrome and everything worked and it works a lost faster. All good for me. :y
On the plus side it proves that it is capable of connecting to the internet & downloading :)
On the negative side it shows that there is something wrong with the IE setup. Internet Explorer is intimately connected with the inner workings of Windoze so I would strongly recommend that you don't let it connect to the internet until you have fixed it. Definitely don't use it for internet banking or eBay purchases.
I haven't got the patience to nurse sick Microsoft systems any more so I would wipe it & stick Linux on it but if you don't want to do that then at least listen to the bods who DO still have a lingering attachment to Redmond. Rebuild it (ie wipe it and re-install Windows).
Rebuild it
Afraid to say changing the battery didnt work. Still get nothing or warning comes up "cant find or cant open file"
Anymore ideas welcome.
Whilst the useless student is still localish to you, ask him to rebuild it. If the CMOS battery is shafted, I guess its old, probably not worth the effort to replace that battery.
its got nothing to do with date.. first you need to log in with admin rights.. re-build it.. then you will correct date-time whatever