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[david flamee]

I HAVE A PACKARD BELL EASY NOTE LAPTOP. BOUGHT IT FROM NEW APX 3 YRS AGO. I HAD A COMPUTER TOO AT THE TIME AND HAD MOVED FROM MY HOUSE AND WAS LIVING IN A CARAVAN. SINCE THE LAPTOP WAS NOT NEEDED I ASKED MY BROTHER TO STORE IT.

IM NOW BACK IN A HOUSE AND THE COMPUTER HAS CRASHED SO IVE GOT THE LAPTOP BACK AND SET UP. WHILST IT WAS STORED AT MY BROTHERS IT WAS USED BY HIS DAUGHTER TO DOWNLOAD TUNES AND I GUESS DO ALL THE THINGS THAT TEENAGERS DO ON THE NET. WELL THE THING WAS FINE AND EVERYTHING WORKING BUT THEN WHEN I BOUGHT A MOBILE MODEM AND CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET THAT WAS WHEN THE PROBLEMS STARTED.

THE THING WOULD CONNECT LONG ENOUGH TO OPEN MAYBE ONE OR TWO PAGES BUT IT WAS HOPELESS SINCE I WAS TRYING TO DOWNLOAD 3 YEARS WORTH OF WINDOWS UPDATES. I TRIED VIRTUALY EVERYTHING AND IN THE END TRIED TO PURCHASE A REG CLEANER ONLINE HOWEVER I REQUIRED AN E MAIL TO DO THIS. AFTER COAXING THE LAPTOP USING VARIOUS TRICKS SUCH AS RE STARTING EXPLORER WITH THE EMAIL REG PAGE SET AS MY HOME PAGE I MANAGED TO OPEN AN E MAIL ACCOUNT. IT WAS AT THIS POINT AFTER RECEIVING THE CONFIRMATION WELCOME ETC THAT THE LAPTOP BEGAN TO RUN AS NORMAL

IT WAS FINE THEN MAYBE FOR ABOUT A MONTH. THEN THE PROBLEM STARTED AGAIN. CANT TELL YOU HOW SICK I WAS OF SEEING THE MESSAGE "INTERNET EXPLORER CANNOT DISPLAY THE WEB PAGE" THERE WERE NO PROBS WITH MY CONNECTION I HAD THE FEELING THAT SOME PROCESS WAS RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND BUT COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING UNUSUAL IN MY STARTUP OR TASKMANAGER.

IT WAS BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT THAT I CAME ACROSS CCleaner. IM SO PLEASED THAT I INSTALLED IT BECAUSE AFTER RUNNING IT AND CEANING THE JUNK AND FIXING THE REGISTRY PROBLEMS MY LAPTOP HAS NOT HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE INTERNET SINCE

THE REGISTRY "FIXER" ALONE IS IN MY OPINION WORTHY OF THIS TESTIMONIAL HOVEVER COMBINED WITH ALL THE OTHER ASPECTS OF CCleaner IT MAKES FOR AN ALMOST ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE ITEM FOR ANY COMPUTER. MY THANKS AND KEEP UP THE VERY GOOD WORK.

IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH ME THEIR THOUGHTS ON WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED MY INTERNET PROBLEMS PLEASE FEEL FREE.

[hazelnut]

Welcome to the forum David.

Can I just ask that you do not use all capital letters in your posts please, it's considered to be the equivalent of shouting

[DennisD]

Hi David, hazels right about the caps in your post, it's also hard to read. Got eye strain here.

One thought comes to mind. You mention having to go through 3 years of windows updates, which means everything else on your PC will be that much out of date including the software used to display web pages.

If you haven't already updated this stuff, you could download and run the very useful "Update Checker" program from File Hippo, which will tell you for example if you have uptodate Flash Players.

It will possibly show a lot of stuff needs updating, so I would suggest going steady with the results, and update what you think you may need.

File Hippo Update Checker: (Freeware)

This is a good piece of software, and a good site used by a lot of folk on here.

Hope this helps.

[Andavari]

...also since someone else was using your system and since you'll have no knowledge of the stuff they did on it, it wouldn't hurt to follow these recommendations to make sure your system is clean from any infections.

[Xenomorph]

FEATURE REQUEST: HAVE CCleaner FIX STUCK CAPS LOCK KEY.

[YoKenny]

Xenomorph, on Oct 1 2008, 08:58 AM, said:

FEATURE REQUEST: HAVE CCleaner FIX STUCK CAPS LOCK KEY.