I HATE WINDOWS XP!!!

[MuseRider]

It came on my new computer, my old one gave out some time ago. Does anyone who has this system have trouble loading images? Also some pages say I am forbidden, I do not have permission!! What the hell is this? Sorry, I am just so frustrated. I went to the windows tech help site and I am forbidden to pull it up! HA, brilliant.

[ornotna]

1. you need administrator privileges

can you log on as the administrator?

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

4. start- control panel - user accounts

zoom zoom - you'll be cruising in no time.

[MuseRider]

6. I am the only one

who uses this computer and I am the administrator.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Not necessarily true

Administrator is usually a hidden account that can only be accessed by booting into Safe Mode. It requires a password. From there, you can adjust rights and privileges on all accounts-- you may think your normal account is the only one and that it has all rights, but you should confirm it by trying the above method. This turned out to be exactly the case on a machine I troubleshot this weekend-- they did not have sufficient rights to burn cds. I had to upgrade the appropriate user to Administrator privileges specifically for that, and I had to do it from Safe Mode. I similarly had to adjust the accounts on a notebook machine recently.

Other reasons for what you describe may be an improper security setting in IE, or possibly within your firewall.

As for loading images, make sure you have a good graphics card with lots of memory, and also a sufficient amount of system memory. For a graphics machine, I recommend a minimum of 256mb, with an optimum amount of at least twice that. With XP, the more memory, the better.

[MuseRider]

27. Thanks

I think I did what you mentioned but I dont know what you mean by safe mode. The problem is that I can get some of the stuff, other things I cannot. I can go to 3 or 4 sites, get a video and then not be able to get the next one because I am forbidden. I can download some things but other things it will tell me I am forbidden (last thing was a password keeper program.) It will always be the same things, I will never get them but other things are OK. I can't tell the difference to even try to puzzle it out. I think I will have to do some phoning around.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. You can get to Safe mode by

hitting the F8 key as it first starts booting-- right as it ends telling you what hardware you have, etc., in DOS mode when you first start your computer. When it gets close to the point when XP starts loading, just repeatedly hit F8, and a menu should pop up giving you several XP boot options. Just use the up/down arrows on your keyboard to select Safe Mode.

[Devlzown]

2. I have XP on my computer, too.

This is the first computer I've ever owned, so I don't know how it XP stacks up against other programs. I do sometimes have trouble loading images -- sometimes it just takes a little while, other times it takes more than one try. If you need help, I would advise going online with someone from your ISP rather than Microsoft. They've never been any help to me at all.

[brokensymmetry]

3. On explorer -

when you've come across a lot of images, you'll have trouble saving new ones. The fix is to go to:

Tools-->Internet Options-->Temporary Internet Files-->Delete Files

At that juncture, you should be able to save the images in the correct format (gif or jpg)

I'm not sure about pages being forbidden - if you'd care to supply a URL, perhaps someone else could try it and see if similar results occur?

[MuseRider]

9. Thanks

I have my history set to not save, is that what you mean?

[brokensymmetry]

11. Not quite.

The problem is that XP & Explorer saves the images as temporary files. This is a good thing, because when you want to view a page the computer loads the image from a file on your hard drive instead of having to reload it every time through the internet.

However, Micro$oft, in their infinite wisdom, left a bug in. At some point, when you've gone to lots of pages and come across lots of images, any time you do a right hand click it will ONLY save as a bitmap. It won't save as a GIF or JPG no matter what you do. And the approved solution from M.Soft is to delete those temporary files...

Setting your history to not save is a small help to privacy, but it won't address the problem...

[incontrovertible]

5. XP <= Server2003 =< Longhorn

I like a David over a Goliath as much as the next guy, but Longhorn's going to change the way humankind perceives Reality, with or without the DRM crap.

[MuseRider]

7. Funny

I think I understand what you are saying!

[incontrovertible]

13. saying only this:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_preview_2003.asp

The nixes, nuxes, tuxes and osxes are cute and all, but Goliath has drawn all of the brightest intellectual candlepower into its gravitational supermass for this one.

[alfredo]

18. Maybe so, but some kid in Warsaw

will still be able to get your credit card number and turn your address book into his bitch.

[incontrovertible]

23. wouldn't bank on that

not reading the trades? palladium? authentication all the way down into the circuitry? Happening to the hardware whether the Linux collective wants it or not?

[foo_bar]

26. microsoft will make bank

I just can't name a way they've enriched the computing experience other than making it ubiquitous. Same goes for McDonalds and the culinary experience but at least I can take the damn pickles off without calling an 800 number.

[foo_bar]

12. that's what they said about Win95

with or without the 16-bit layer. With, it turned out. The new reality was software with a shorter MTBF than the hardware it occupied.

[incontrovertible]

15. heh

You're not really implying that a comparison could be drawn between Longhorn and Win95 are you?

If so, well, ok, I guess.

[ikojo]

8. At the risk of starting a religious war....

Buy a Mac....

Things are easier on a Mac.

[MuseRider]

10. My husband has a Mac

he loves it but I stay with this because he thinks he is an expert and has screwed up more computers than I can tell you. Mine is double password protected and I am also hoping the different platform will keep him from snooping in my e mails. Nothing to hide but jeeze, a little privacy please!

[alfredo]

19. On my Mac, even with administrator privileges

I can't read my wife's e-mail. I don't think you would have had to worry about security as much.

[MuseRider]

25. He has a program that

records everything written by the keyboard. At least with my own computer with double passwords he can't get in to do that.

[BlueJazz]

21. That's cause Mac only has about 10

programs made for it....Just Kidding...Just Kidding...I like Mac also.

[incontrovertible]

24. You only think you're kidding

I keep wondering when the MacOS base will finally come to the horrifying realization that Linux is a far greater and more perilous threat to their own platform than it will ever be to Windows.

How many multiples of the MacOS installed base will Linux-on-the-desktop have to reach before Photoshop and Illustrator get ported? Because at that point, it's all... over, kids. There wouldn't be a damn thing you could do on a Mac that you couldn't do for half as much, twice as fast, and just as pretty with SuSE and a KDE theme, and you could even keep that absurd single-button "mouse," if you wished.

[thermodynamic]

29. If you can afford it and want less h/w per dollar!

Even a $2000 dual-1.2GHz G4 Mac uses pitiful Radeon 9000 cards. That's pathetic when, for $2000, I should be getting the Radeon 9700 at least - if not an Nvidia 5900FX, who makes more solid video drivers anyway.

For $600, I have a system that (for most purposes) cremates the dual-1.2 G4 (and a dual 1.2 G4 does not mean 2.4GHz) , and comes with Linux - something which is DIFFERENT, not insanely difficult or mind-boggling. I'm sure that a dual-CPU solution would be faster than a single CPU if the apps are designed to optimize both CPUs at once. But at $2000, the system only came with 256MB of RAM. That's another insanity in the name of Apple.

[Catshrink]

14. WinXP totally screwed up the character map

I need that for typing Spanish and scientific characters. It used to be easy to figure out the codes, now it's a pain in the butt.

[freeforall]

16. Security or Content Problem?

I have this O/S on my computer at work - and it's a piece of sh*t. I know the network admin had to fix mine for some problem that sounds similar, and she went to the Control Panel > Internet Options > Content Tab and adjusted some settings so that I could see more. (I'm at home and using Windows 2000, and the control panel is a little different.)

I hope someone out there is more knowledgeable, but I thought I'd contribute what I know. Hope it helps!

[BlueJazz]

20. I've been running Windows 2003 server and

I must say ...I do like it. I dual boot with XP Pro and 98SE also.

[FlashHarry]

22. Compared to Win98, WinXP is a godsend.

So far, I've had no problems with it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I use a Mac at work, which is great (except it's aging and runs OS9X.) It does sound like an administrator issue. Once you get that figured, you should be fine. If it's a new machine, why not call your customer service. If XP is an OEM version, they should be able to help you.

[LadeJarl]

30. Change your Internet security zone settings!

The reason why you are not able to go to some sites even as Administrator is due to the security settings in Internet Explorer. If you look in the bottom right corner of the browser there should be a little icon there. try to click on it to get into the configuration and change the zone settings and you will be able to surf to other sites.

Sorry, I can't be more specific, but I'm using Gentoo Linux with Mozilla Firebird. I don't own or use any MS products, neither at work nor at home. I did see the same problem a few days ago after installing Windows Server 2003 on a testmachine since I needed to port some software to Windows. It turned out to be almost impossible since even their server version lacks elementary tools for running a server, oh well.