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AlanYork · 09-05-2005, 11:49

Well, the proxy server is now off and normal service seems to have been resumed.....hmmm, well almost normal. I use hotmail as my e mail and every now and again it asks you to put in the series of numbers and letters it flashes up, to prove to it you're not some kind of machine sending spam I assume.

I dutifully do this and it rather surprisingly asks me to do it again, and again, and again....in fact it never seems to "see" it. To cut a long story short, eventually I call my friend in Glasgow, who also happens to be an NTL customer and he does it for me no problem at all.

It's not a major issue, other than the inconvenience, I just wondered if anyone else had come across this. It actually happens on an e card site that I am a member of too, I sign in, go to the cards and it continually asks me to sign in again. A reboot seems to have sorted that out, for how long, who knows.

On the general subject of web browsing, at present I seem to be getting little hiccups here and there, the above mentioned, the occasional syntax error, application errors every now and again.....my pc frankly appears to have a bit of a cold!!! It's coming up to 2 years old, and I know it had AOL on it before this. I've done all the obvious stuff, defrag, anti virus, anti spyware etc but still something isn't quite right. I don't fancy letting PC world get their hands on it, so is there anything I could be looking at here at home?

Anyway, browsing appears to be up to speed at least now, so thats a plus.

09-05-2005, 11:49	#21
AlanYork Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 178	Re: Slow browsing Well, the proxy server is now off and normal service seems to have been resumed.....hmmm, well almost normal. I use hotmail as my e mail and every now and again it asks you to put in the series of numbers and letters it flashes up, to prove to it you're not some kind of machine sending spam I assume. I dutifully do this and it rather surprisingly asks me to do it again, and again, and again....in fact it never seems to "see" it. To cut a long story short, eventually I call my friend in Glasgow, who also happens to be an NTL customer and he does it for me no problem at all. It's not a major issue, other than the inconvenience, I just wondered if anyone else had come across this. It actually happens on an e card site that I am a member of too, I sign in, go to the cards and it continually asks me to sign in again. A reboot seems to have sorted that out, for how long, who knows. On the general subject of web browsing, at present I seem to be getting little hiccups here and there, the above mentioned, the occasional syntax error, application errors every now and again.....my pc frankly appears to have a bit of a cold!!! It's coming up to 2 years old, and I know it had AOL on it before this. I've done all the obvious stuff, defrag, anti virus, anti spyware etc but still something isn't quite right. I don't fancy letting PC world get their hands on it, so is there anything I could be looking at here at home? Anyway, browsing appears to be up to speed at least now, so thats a plus.