here is a problem that i have had since i had to bring my computer back from teh dead... and wipe the hard drive. lets say i am on a site with a "contact us" message. when i clcik teh link. it sends me to a page with my user name and a place to type in my passowrd.. a little gray box with a set of keys. now when i hit ok or whatever prompt it asks. i get a white screen. a computer expert frind of mine still cant figure it out.. weve gone through hundereds of setting and still nothing all i get is a white screen! im rather computer illiterate so i couldnt tell you exactly what we have done... but if any of you ahve experienced these problems or similar ones could you help me out here!

Well I'm not understanding well your problem...
I suppose the right thing to expect to happen is after you click the contact us link appear a body of an email message to fill in. If instead it opens a login box, it means the Mail client application needs you to authenticate, which shouldn't happen if you "normally" entered on your computer. So your problem should be between the login on your Computer or Network environment and the Email application itself. You wipe your hard disk recently are you sure you put back together the setings of your profile email to your application email client? It helps if you describe what Operation System and email application you have... i know this is doesn't help too much but "I" need more details about your problem at least to understand it.

as best i know i use hotmail. windows xp etc.. not to sure what you need to know. but like you said what should happen after i hit click it use to do that.. but now it will once in ahwile do to the screen with name and password then every time after taht it will just go to a white screen. i can go to my normal email by clicking directly onto my envelope atop the screen but not through a link. a white screen of death always pops up. for example if you were to attach your eamil in your post by saying click here to contact me and as soon as i click it, it will take me to the white screen and not to a body of an email message. I can see at the bottom of the screen that it is trying to go there but it just gets side tracked...

Hmmmmm... Ok and what is your application client email? Outlook? And what is your Browser?

I am trying to find a way on the newer version of Excel where I can create a formula that links into a pivot table by clicking with the mouse on the particular cells I want to use in the formula without it producing the huge reference text string that you cannot copy down.
Currently my only work around is to manually type in cell addresses such as "a2+b2" etc instead of when I click on cells I get
"=GETPIVOTDATA("4",$A$3,"1",4)+GETPIVOTDATA(
"4",$A$3,"1",4)"
but I was hoping someone knew of a setting that would disable this and simply give the cell reference when clicked on.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

i dont use outlook or out look express. the only thing i know is that i use hotmail (msn) as my eamil provider. i use internet explorer as my browser.

If you go to the microsoft website they have tuition downloads that can help with excel.

how do you go to your hotmail ? do you read it in internetexplorer ? or do you have it setup in outlook (express) ?

are you supposed to send an email when you click on the last link ?

how does the box look like where you have to fill in your password ... does it have your hotmail username in it already ?

what is the site where this happens ? is it related to hotmail or microsoft ? or does it happen on more sites ?

if it is to send an email to the people you can have a look at the bottom of your browser when you have your mouse over the link (instead of clicking on it) .. it can show something like 'email://....'

what happens if you get the white screen and wait for some (or more) minutes ?

Can anyone let me know what
c:\windows\system\rpcss.exe
is used for on my system Win98SE please.

rpc probably means Remote Procedure Calls.

hmmm so why would someone be trying to access it from elswhere ?

I have got another one now ???
c:\windows\system\lexpps.exe
My firewall is stopping them, but should it or not be ?

I think personal firewalls are overrated. they give users fake feel of security. I've never used an antivirus or a personal firewall for more than a day. Every time i try one i feel it's waste of my time and computer resources.

I never had a virus on my home computer.

I downloaded the free one from Kerio a few months ago and it has been fine. I have run 'shieldUP' and it told me my PC was totaly secure. All of a sudden i have had these messages comming through.

Someone from 208.51.89.181, port 1027 wants to send UDP datagram to port 1027 owned by 'Distributed COM Services' on your computer.

c:\windows\system\lexpps.exe OR c:\windows\system\rpcss.exe

I dont mind the firewall letting me know about them as they are .exe files, BUT the question is that should they be allowed through or not as they are part of the window/system ?

whoever tries to connect from 208.51.89.181 is not part of your operating system. Don't let them in.

BTW, this is a nice website that tells you where is any IP is located (probably not 100% accurate)
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

On my home PC, I have 3 layers of protection - from a DSL modem/firewall, another software firewall/anti-virus software package which I was only first testing, but found it caught a few things and did not take up too much resource, and the norton virus scan.

Simple answer to "should they be let through": always NO unless you are trying to do something on the computer and it does not let you.

For example, I was doing a microsoft webcast meeting/training through microsoft with Microsoft's Live Meeting software, and something was tried to get through and I said no - and then of course it did not work. So I simplely said yet to that only next time and worked after that.

So unless you know you want an outside connection, you can almost always so no. :-)

3 layers?!!

I know some photographers who open canned food in a darkroom, so it doesn't go bad while they eat it.

where there should be country flags. I've checked bug tracker and someone has posted this issue before but was closed with a 'not a bug'. It has happened to me before but Fencer replied that it had been fixed a couple or so hours earlier. so does this mean that whatever was broken before has broken again???

Nothing is broken. Don't use IE.

oh...and I'm not sure if I've posted this issue on the right board either...if it's wrong, I'm sorry...BBW feel free to remove my post but please tell me who I should let know this is happening. Don't want to bug Fencer with trivial things like this he's got better things to do :)

oh! but I've been using IE for years and playing on BK until a couple of hours ago and it was ok....

For some strange reason, IE occasionally refuses to display pictures even if it successfully loads them from the server.

go for the firefox, and never look back.

you wouldn't believe this but I just went and cleaned out my cookies and temp Internet files....and everything is hunky dorey now!!! :)

just talking to someone else who plays here who experienced the same issue and they used Firefox successfully for about 1/2 hour before they ended up with the same issue again....go figure
but thanks for the prompt replies guys...much appreciated :))

BananaD: Impossible. Firefox doesn't show red crosses.

I'm just repeating what they told me. I can't vouch for it, I've never used it before.

the red crosses dont matter that much to me .. but sometimes the pieces on the game boards dont show up .. i then hit F5 (in IE) and the page is refreshed often showing the images correctly .. sometimes i need several refreshes though

since my java is being awkward lately i installed Opera which works nice ... but when i use Opera to play on BK it strecthed the backgammon board twice as wide at my 4th move (i have 2 dices with the same number) .. dont know why .. i havent investigated it more thoroughly so i didnt report it yet

The McAfee AVERT Team has released
version 2.4.1 of their free virus remover Stinger
and also XP-Antispy is available in a new version 3.92 ... ~*~

ProcessLibrary is a web based process lookup directory.
Confused with scvhost.exe and svchost.exe ? A very handy, free, service. ~*~

" Pascal Tutorial For Newbie Programmers "

The full guide to pascal programming, everything you will ever need to know. ~*~

Is anybody using pascal anywhere besides school?

unless forced ... :P ... ~*~

Any operating system engineer. Linux is 71% pure C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

where are the coders who wrote their own assemblers and loops that
fit into 6 bytes instruction cache - hardly portable sometimes, though -
but unlike C it is what my very personal taste would call pure ... ~*~

I didn't say C is a pure language, i said "pure C" as oppose to C++.

let me repeat myself, is anybody using pascal?

some would call it a C-dialect, some would say pascal-dialect ... written by a coder
from the netherlands. Just recompiling fortran to pascal doesn't count probably -
I'm using it as I have a handy program and loads of fortran algorithms ... ~*~ :P

i learned programming in school using C, smalltalk and pascal. today i am using only C and smalltalk. i can remember somtething from pascal - but can't programming, because in 10 years i forgof much about this interesting language (in which i programmed my first calculator with a simple graph funtion)

Wow, i used Fortran 77 a little, from what i remember that would be a total rewrite.

some peers at university are using fortran compilers for some simulations. lucky that i must not use fortran! what i saw ... brr!

a program I found in the fred fish library for the amiga ... early 90s ... ~*~

every time I come in here, click on my games, whatever, I get "done, but with errors on page. Has been doing this for several weeks. this is the only site I get that. Anyone know why?

Hmm, it can be caused by some forgotten Javascript snippets. Can you send me the page HTML source?

Can someone please explain me how do you put special chars in the messages like the notes I see in so many profiles or some other symbols?
And is any unicode char supported in this way or is there a selected set of admited chars?

Press 'alt' then tap a few numbers out on the numbers block on your computer.
Eg - alt + 14 = ♫

yeah, I suspected as much... but how do I know which number corresponds to each symbol? I mean, last I checked 13 was code for Enter, not for a note... or has this nothing to do with ASCII and UNICODE's?

<If you are using windows there is something called a Character map on your system.. in XP you go to
Programs> accessories> system tools> character map. U can learn what goes with the Alt key to produce those different characters

Hope this helps

Does anyone know anything about the clock on the PC? In the last few days, mine has been losing about 20 minutes overnight, then another 25 minutes by lunchtime! How is this possible?

You're either in a parallel universe or have been abducted by aliens. There's a good book about that on Ebay...

There is a battery on the motherboard.. If you notice the time slowing down if you shut the machine off over nite then when u turn it on the time is wrong/ slow then u need to change the battery. But if you are losing time and you dont shut down over night it might not be the battery but it may be something wrong with the motherboard. Its usually not a big deal other then having to reset the clock alot.