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Post by chris on Dec 4, 2014 16:16:41 GMT -5
I have one of those Asus Netbooks with win7 on it. I don't use it much at all but today (and the other day) I logged on while my iPod was charging and eveytime I tried going to a website I keep getting messages saying scripts has prevented the website or I get a message that website is not responding. (first it was Yahoo not responding then another website I went to) Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it. It's so annoying and driving me crazy.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Dec 4, 2014 17:57:39 GMT -5
No great ideas here but some things to try. If you have more than one browser installed, is it the same for all? Start Task Manager click on the Processes tab & look to see if if something is using a lot of memory or CPU time. Start a browser and see if memory or CPU usage changes. Run CCleaner to get rid of Temp files and such. How much disk space is available? Perhaps uninstall programs which are no longer used or off load large files. If it just started up after a long idle period, are updates running in the background?
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Post by dave on Dec 4, 2014 18:02:19 GMT -5
A friend had an ACIS netbook and down on the front beneath your thumb on the front edge of the PC was a button to turn your wifi adapter off and on. I'd check that first. If none, look elsewhere for it, e.g., above the top row of keys.
Speaking of the wifi connection, if the problem is really sporadic, e.g., sometimes connecting and sometimes not to the same site, maybe your connection to your router is weak. To eliminate this as a possible problem, move closer to the router or temporarily connect via a cable (blue ethernet cable with RJ45 plugs on each end). Don't forget the antenna on your router should always be vertical. If it turns out that's the problem and you don't want to permanently move your router or your laptop, there are a couple of remedies to improve the communications. First, for $20 (or less on eBay) buy a USB connected WiFi adapter. Get the kind with a pop-up antenna. I It solved a weak signal problem on my wife's old Dell laptop when she wanted to use it at the far end of the house. And of here's a suggestion everyone laughs at. Slide a metal wire whisk down over the router antenna. It works. I tested it for signal strength improvement by simply measuring the throughput speed on speedtest.net. Stronger signal reception results is far fewer re-tries and speeds up the bottleneck in the overall connection path.
The other thing you could do is clear your temporary internet files storage. for your browser. For Chrome, it's under Tools. Don't remember where it is in Firefox.
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Post by dave on Dec 4, 2014 18:07:36 GMT -5
By the way, most usb wifi adapters will install themselves and begin working when you plug them in. They set themselves up to work in parallel. Windows parses the transfers between the two adapters. I think once I had a problem with one interfering with the other and I just disabled the internal adapter with a few clicks of the mouse.
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Post by chris on Dec 6, 2014 9:59:39 GMT -5
Thanks all. (BTW it is an Acer not a Asus my bad) I went into my tools and deleted all temp files and then I selected default settings and that seems to have done the trick. (time will tell)
I do have wifi on here so when I turn it on all the updates install. Will keep you posted.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 7, 2014 10:37:22 GMT -5
The automatic update thing cracks me up when I turn on my laptop. I normally only use the laptop when we travel. If we haven't traveled in quite some time, when I boot the laptop, there are a large number of updates that need to be installed. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes or more to complete the updates. I know that I am in for a long wait when the message appears saying "installing update one of thirty seven", haha. I have learned to get it out a few days prior to needing it, and hooking it up to my internet cable to let it update itself while I go about other things.
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Post by Marylou on Dec 7, 2014 12:46:57 GMT -5
Nothing is ever easy.
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Post by dave on Dec 7, 2014 13:45:09 GMT -5
It can sure seem that way. I have to wonder. Certainly in the twenty years I've been fooling with PCs it seems that Manufacturers could have made things significantly easier for users. They have in some ways made progress along that route. But I wonder why they have not made more. It may be that the complexity of the software (and hardware) is the culprit. But it is also true that software offerings have become huge in size compared to the relative increase in function. How much more function is there in Firefox 33 than in Firefox 1.0? Their respective download sizes are 35 versus 4.7 megabytes. For a seven fold increase in download size, I would have expected FF 33.0 to wake me up in the morning and start the coffee. I remember loading a fully functional Navigator browser in the mid 90s that did everything I ever wanted ... from a single diskette, 1.4 megabytes. Microsoft Office came on 7 or 8 diskettes. I'll bet today if they released it on diskettes the shipping box would look like a loaf of bread. Every time I upgrade to a PC with more memory, Windows elbows its way in and gobbles up more and more of the memory I just purchased. Does it have more function? Maybe, but nothing important to my needs. Does it run faster? Maybe, but not so much that I would notice. Is it safer from viruses? Not so far, not that I can tell. We've all been taken to the cleaners by the computer industry, some of us fully aware of what was happening but willing to grin and bear to get what was the object of our desires. By the way, welcome Mary Lou. Come join us. |
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Post by Clipper on Dec 7, 2014 16:21:34 GMT -5
Yes, by all means, come and join us Mary Lou. Simply register and I will approve your membership. We would love to have you become a member of our forum family.
My "computer guy" once told me that Firefox hogs a lot of memory compared to some of the other browsers. Of course I have two browsers loaded on both my machines. I have both Internet Explorer and Firefox occupying memory space. When I took the laptop in to have that Astromenda virus removed, he told me that I was using almost the capacity of the memory on the laptop, simply with everything that was running in the background. He cleaned it up and reformatted the hard drive. It runs like a swiss watch now. The same for this PC. It runs much faster since he cleaned it up and he was able to save most of my data and documents in the process. Is he correct, and should I assume that I would possibly be better off running Google Chrome or using the IE that came installed on the machine?
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