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Can some kind soul please send me some web addresses? Like.... Free BMD.... IGI Family search... Where we buy certs on line from? ... I lost everything. Cant even find Google! All my passwords are lost as they were on my note pads! All my stuff on my favorites!! My FTM too. I feel sick :-( My pooter is now a virgin :-( Thank God i saved my photos to disc ages ago... I now have AVG also Zone alarm. Had them before but AVG was playing up and I never got round to sorting it out in time.Tut tut! Thanks in advance Gerri x

www.freebmd.org.uk www.familysearch.org www.gro.gov.uk www.ancestry*co.uk www.google*com

Thanks Tracy...thats a good start for me :-))

Another question? How come all the threads are underlined now? Is it me or has this changed today? Gerri x

It's IE. GR changed it a while back. Your IE will be back on defaults. Go to Tools -> Advanced. Look for Underline (under Browser). You need to change it from Always to Hover or Never.

Oh blimey My commiserations. I switched off last night instead of leaving puter on standby cos was out all day. When i switched on tonight I couldn't get the darn thing!!!!! to open & had heebie jeebies cos all I got was grinding noise. I thought I had had a puter failure & went into panic mode. Fortiunately,I dont know how!!. it finally decided to log in and all seems ok. I,m never logging right off again

I've sent you a little list of mine Gerri lol. Jenny

Oh i know how you feel, mine went last week and i had to start from scratch, even all my fotos i never got round to printing off...GONE!!! i still only have about 1% of my favs back and a lot of sites have gone forever....moe

Virgin PC needs the following: 1. MICROSOFT WINDOWS UPDATE: http://update.microsoft(.)com All updates available from the Microsoft Update site - those under CRITICAL and CUSTOM - including, under Custom any hardware or drivers offered. 2. JAVA: http://www.java(.)com/en/download/index.jsp 3. ADOBE FLASH PLAYER: http://www.adobe(.)com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash On this Adobe download make sure before you start the download process that you UNCHECK the offer for the Yahoo rool bar - it's not necessary and downloading it adds a load of spyware/adware. 4. ADOBE SHOCKWAVE: http://www.adobe(.)com/shockwave/download/download.cgi 5. AD-AWARE Spyware remover: http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php 6. SPYWAREBLASTER (Spyware preventer) http://www.download(.)com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022-10196637.html Of course an anti-virus goes without saying and you've mentioned having AVG's free versions...one of the better programs if you're opting to use a free anti-virus. Make the following adjustments in your control panel, too: Fixing “Website Can’t Be Found” and other Site Error Messages More than likely you have trouble with accessing quite a few sites.....particularly getting the message 'website can't be found' among a few other error messages. Try the following and it should solve your problem. 1. Go to START. 2. Click on CONTROL PANEL. 3. Click on INTERNET OPTIONS. 4. Change NUMBER OF DAYS TO KEEP IN HISTORY to “0” and click APPLY 5. A box appears with tabs labeled across the top. Click on ADVANCED. 6. Scroll down to the sub-heading SECURITY. 7. Make sure the following has check marks next to it: Use USE SSL 2.0, USE SSL 3.0 and USE TLS 1.0. 8. Also make sure you check off EMPTY TEMPORARY INTERNET FILE WHEN BROWSER IS CLOSED. More than likely USE TLS 1.0 is not checked of and it should be. This will give you the error messages, as well as a few others, that will prevent you from viewing web sites and the error you are getting. Make sure you empty your cookies cache as well as temporary internet files once in a while, too, as this slows down your computer and these folders tend to 'remember' the errors and may continue to bring them up until the folders are emptied. Judy : ) PS: Remember to remove the ( ) from each one of the addresses above.

This is from another member Gerri. Jenny 14:06:03 Genes underwent a little bit of a trauma and resulted in thread titles being underlined .You CAN remove the underline, thus..........Tools...internet options.... advanced, look through ' Browsing' and where it says underline ' Always ..never ... hover', .................tick...... hover ... Bob