An informative video highlighting one of many benefits of using the ever glorious Windows 10.


No problems with Chorrol and Firefox for me today. What's your OS? (Windows 7 for me.)

I am running W10 for an OS.

My primary browser is Firefox and it is working fine for me.

For troubleshooting purposes, I just brought chorrol up with both MS Edge and Google Chrome and both also work fine for me.

Although woefully ignorant on browers, it does seem that is where your problem lies mALX.

I have alerted the Admins here as to your situation but am hopeful that some of our members might also be able to assist you in troubleshooting your Firefox and Chrome. I'm so glad that IE is working for you!

Copy/paste the exact error message here. "some file is missing" isn't quite as precise as we'd need.

Did you unplug it and plug it back in?

As silly as it sounds, several months ago I was having a terrible time with my phone answering machine doing unreliable stupid things. I just happened to have the service provider out at the house for something else and mentioned it. The tech suggested exactly that - unplug it and plug it back in. By Kynareth's wings if that didn't instantly fix the problem!

Forcing the system to reload everything fresh often eliminates a temporary corruption of active data. How deep a restart is needed varies. Sometimes restarting an application, sometimes rebooting the machine, and the unplug, plug back in is the final level before you're considering deleting and re-installing things.

Windows, and the browsers, have a nasty habit of "upgrading" themselves without asking. Not all those changes work. At least Windows has a mechanism for rolling back a level, to where it worked before.

Windows 7 Professional.

My Win 7 Pro is currently having issues if I let Windows try and process the content of a zip file. That's not normally a problem, as I use 7zip file manager to look inside any compressed archive. However, when a file is downloaded, it tries to security scan it, and that can hang the system if it's in .zip or .rar format. The .7z files aren't an issue as it gives up trying to open them and look inside. Right now I have to download some things on my laptop (Win 10) and carry them over on a thumb drive.

That fault suddenly appeared and I didn't track what Windows update introduced it. They don't update Win 7 as often as the current releases, which may be a good thing!

Since IE is working, I doubt your problem is Windows, but the browsers update frequently as well. I just got Firefox updating itself to 50.

Not on my puter. Disabled that nasty habit immediately

Okay, I took a screen capture of it; I'll upload it once I get back into my Imgur account (which mysteriously logged itself out at the same time this issue started).



Ditto.





I actually have been leaving it on for a few weeks, so I will try this and see if it works.

On the "rolling back" - are you talking about a system restore on my computer (?) or a way to roll back the browser to the previous version?

I´ve rolled back to an earlier save point a couple of times with System Restore. One really good feature of Windows.

I use 7Zip too, and did just yesterday (or actually the day before yesterday now) open a zip folder in my Oblivion folder; so may have triggered this issue then.

Another thing that may have caused it is my son's gf brought over her Xbox One and my son changed the password on the WiFi. Ever since he did that, I can't get the WiFi to work on my laptop at all. It isn't even showing XFinity anymore as a secondary option.

I went to the Chrome site and followed all THEIR instructions on how to fix forum pages not opening properly:

Clean Cache, close other applications, restart, run the Malicious Software Removal Tool, etc. It is still doing it.

I hate Internet Explorer, and don't feel safe using it. (Malware).



But at least I can still get on here with it.

Gahhh!!

Apparently I hadn´t disabled the automatic IE update thing and now it has messed up youtube for me. Can I revert back to the previous version somehow without using System Restore?

Okay, here is the screen capture of the way the forum pages are displaying and the error message I am getting.

And if it means anything at all, this site is the only one not coming up correctly on Google Chrome.

From the forum main page I click on a thread I want to see/comment = which should bring me to any posts added since my last visit to that thread.

Instead it keeps bringing me to the FIRST post of the thread and then just making a list of all following posts. (see First screen)

They look like links; but if you click on them all you get is an error message (see second screen)


http://imgur.com/a/CpRcf




So I am completely unable to use the forums via Chrome now. I can use my PM box, but not the forums. I have to use Internet Explorer to access the forums here.

This is not happening on any other site but Chorrol.

That's a familiar format, and I don't remember when the board software uses it. I seem to remember seeing it when I follow a search result that links here, and I don't have a cookie from signing on (because it's from a different browser than I usually use, for example).

I'd suggest clearing cookies, signing on fresh, and seeing if that reverts you to normal. Since cookies are specific to a site, they can affect just that one, if they're corrupted.

Cache cleaning = yes, I already cleaned all internet cookies, temp files, browser history, etc.; restarted several times (and unplugged for 5 minutes, then re-plugged up) = it is still doing it. But like you said, the only site with the problem is this one. TESAlliance; Nexus; even Haven = no issues.




Wait, I haven't tried signing on fresh yet, I'll try that.






(Not to mention that I ran the Malicious Software Removal Tool twice)




Okay, I just signed out, restarted my PC, signed back in = still coming up the same, with the first post and that list of consecutive posts that lead to an error message.

And by the way: That error message does say to contact the Administration as if it were a link, but pushing it is useless - it is not a working link.

Done a bit of poking around the forum, think I've found the problem.

You appear to have your display mode for the forum set to "outline". You want to hit options, just below the new topic button at the top of a thread, and set your display mode to "standard". That should straighten things out.

PROBLEM FIXED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend Arion found the problem!!!! It was on this site, under "Options" for the forum - somehow it had been switched over to "Outline" version !!!! It is all fixed now, thank you all for your help!!!

WOO HOO !!!!!!

That's wonderful news, mALX! Looks like your friend and our own CT were thinking along the same lines. Thank the Nine for puter-smart folks!

You were right, Thorney!!!! That was exactly the problem! I didn't see this message, but another friend I was playing ESO with told me the same exact thing and walked me through fixing it - your instructions here are as clear as his walk through was! Awesome, thank you so much for finding the right answer !!!

I'm still trying to figure out how it got toggled to "Outline" in the first place!

I think that might be the board default, as I've seen it when following links here from a browser I don't normally use, and which wouldn't have a cookie for the site. Which would be why discarding cookies left it that way. However, I expected logging on fresh would re-establish your personal choice, and it doesn't.

So the "why it happened" is just that the cookie expired.

Can anyone help me getting back the fullscreen feature on youtube? For some reason it has been deactivated and I can´t find any setting for it anywhere.


IE version 10
Win 7 64

Then how do I roll back to version 9? It worked before anyway, just a couple of days ago.

Ugh Internet Explorer, I could never get that to work properly on my PC. I use Google Chrome (with Adblock) for all my internet needs. Anyway I hope you get yours working again.

Hate IE all you want, guys. But fullscreen worked for me on youtube just a few days ago. Now the youtube player is different and fullscreen is inactivated.



And there are still those who wonder why I hate when something changes! It´s because it always make something stop working!!

I fired up my IE and took a look at YouTube and tried both video Theater mode as well as full screen mode and so far it worked for me...Maybe try deleting your cookies in your history and see if that helps.

Oddly enough, fullscreen still works on my parents´ puter and they have almost the same stuff as me. I now have the same youtube player as them except for fullscreen. Some update must have taken place and screwed that up.


Cookies are deleted every time I exit the browser.

That can usually happen. I wish I can help further but I'm not that familiar with IE.

Yes, thank the Nine for them !!!!

So, been having a slight issue from time to time with my wifi lately. Nothing major, just the occasional difficulty connecting, I figure something's just being awkward. Until I noticed that there was an extra device connected to my wifi. So I changed my password, but whatever it was was still connecting. Went poking around and found no info on it apart from a MAC address, which I've blocked.

Can't help wondering if the two were connected. If not, there must be something up with my wifi.

Update: Found a site where I could look up MAC addresses, and it seems it was someone's Sky box that was connecting. Though that doesn't answer the question of how it reconnected only a few minutes after I changed my password...

I had to do a factory restore on my computer. This is the second time under Windows 10 I had to do this, so now I get to enjoy Windows 7 again, which doesn't bother me I hardly had any issues with it.

Yay for Win7!


Glad to have you back on the team, Reaper! Too bad you had to do a factory restart though. Again

Thanks---I don't know what happen with Win 10 but all my programs and files became corrupted and unusable.

This one is very pleased with Win7.

This one remains perfectly happy with Win 7. I dread the day when I feel myself forced to make the jump. In my favor, I have a SSD devoted solely to my Operating System. As far as is humanly possible I try to keep all else off that drive. (My primary machine contains three SSDs (one a low capacity first gen relic) and two hard drives.) Should my OS go bonkers, only info on its SSD will be trashed. That's my hope at least. Course stuff like my Oblivion saves might be lost, but those tend to be backed up DVD. At worst I'm apt to lose a few months of play. Which reminds me I now have enough Oblivion save files to fill another DVD. Gonna have to get on that.

I have to say, Win10 (professional) has been solid for me. Been running it since early November with zero issues. Pleasantly surprised.

Yes, my current puter was built last summer - with Win10. No problems.

Win 10 is definitely better than Win 8, but I still prefer Win 7 over either. The Pro versions are likewise preferred to the "home" or whatever they're calling the lesser ones.

My laptop, ordered with Win 7 Pro, arrived win with Win 8 home, and was almost useless that way. Win 10 at least lets it play Morrowind, but I still hate the general interface, and having to spend so much time turning off the "helpful" features that aren't.

Stop Windows 10 Spying & Forced Application Installs

Geez, if Microsoft would send me free games, I'd be happy about it,


(just kidding)

I'm sure all here know of this, but just in case....

WannaCry Ransomware

Is apparently making the rounds big-time.

My primary PC should be safe, assuming folk are correct that having all Windows Updates installed patches the vulnerability. Gonna power down soon as I'm done posting this (it can spread to all machines on a network) and check my Win10 secondary computer.

Better safe than sorry I reckon.

Welp.


I guess my outmost important files are backed up; game saves. I also have photos on two computers but I still need to get an external harddrive!

As cheap as external hard drives are, there is really no excuse not to have one. I have two "Passports," the smallest is 400 gig - bought that one almost a decade ago. Since then the price of them has dropped by more than half and the size of hard drive memory they hold has increased exponentially. Get one, you will never be sorry.

Now, how do you configure your firewall to block any incoming access/code?

Looks like I'll be updating like crazy when I get home!

Best thing I could do now was copy the most important stuff to my two flashdrives, mostly pictures. In order to do that though I had to delete many backup saves from Oblivion, Morrowind and Fallout 3. But I kept the very first saves as well as the most recent ones. The ones in the middle really don't matter much to me, it's the very first ones and most recent I really care about.

I also copied some texts, mods etc because I had space left over but other than that I don't have much that needs being backed up.