The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 In the last 2 days a problem has occurred with my laptop. I can no longer click on a link that someones posted without the wee egg timer coming up permanently and freezing the page I'm looking at. Normally with a non responsive programme I would just wait until it clears itself, but this never clears and I need to close down the window using ctrl+alt+del. Anyone got any ideas as to why this would start happening whenever a link is clicked on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 You got pop ups disabled ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 I turned them off to see if it would make a difference Dex but so far it hasn't. It's mega frustrating. I'm just waiting on someone posting a link to help me which I cant open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 http://www.setanta.com/en/UK/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Heh heh, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wibble Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Good place to start would be re-installing your browser or moving to a different one to see if the problem is in the browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Cheers for that MJ, I'll give it a bash and report back in 3 days when I've sussed it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 All fixed now MJ, thanks for your help. I'm using windows 7 and uninstalled then re installed, I also downloaded Mozilla as a back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Bugger, I thought it had gone but it's suddenly reappeared. Arrgghhhhh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Kidd Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Stop downloading dodgy porn is my advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig R Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 You might be riddled with adware/spyware. Download a programme called Spybot Search & Destroy. Then start that up, run the updates, immunize and run a system scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Stop downloading dodgy porn is my advice. Heh heh, dont judge everyone by your own standards WK Tried that Craig but it wont let me copy the files to download Spybot, I think I need a good clean out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1874M Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 too much ....... a lot more weird **** happens than just going blind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 too much ....... a lot more weird **** happens than just going blind Are you in cahoots with WK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wicker Man Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Try Start > Run > then type regsvr32 urlmon.dll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Try Start > Run > then type regsvr32 urlmon.dll It says it succeeded, but what did it do? For all I know I could have just blown up someones house in London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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