Yes, computer help again.

pewter_jean

pewter_jean

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Well It seem my computer is acting up on my again. I don't understand it.
It just started doing this,
Whenever I go back off line, all my bookmarks disappear. I have to go thru and get them all back in. Then the next time I am off, when I sign on again, everything is gone again. Why?
 
Try this: go to My Computer in your Start Menu ---what turns up when you press Start on the line at the bottom of the screen.

In My Computer, select Control Panel.

In Control Panel, select Internet Options.

In Internet Options, select General, and look about halfway down: check your settings and see if you have somehow opted to erase your tracks and traces, passwords, etc, every time you exit the web. If you have, select not to. That will retain your cookies, passwords, and other web-related tracks and traces of where you have been. Some people select erase to try to prevent their activity being examined. But it does mean you lose things when you back out of the web.
 
I am useing Earthlink, I was using Mozzilla Fox fire, but that SpySweeper wouldn't work with it. It keep blocking the Fox Fire. I was told not to use the Fox Fire. All had worked fine for the past couple weeks, then boom last night, and today, when I get on line, I will go to my bookmarks, and I get the "not signed in to Google" It will take my quite a while to get signed in because I keep saying my password is wrong. After I finally go through everything and get it to open, then I have to go through and try to get all the bookmarks back in place. Then as soon as I sign off. When I go back on line. I have to deal with this all over again.
 
Do you log in with a password when windows starts? On the older versions of windows it wouldn't save settings from default if you didn't but I'm not sure about the newer ones.
 
I am trying to keep it very simple. I bookmark this and the slashclub site so I don't have to try to remember my passwords. But I am thinking maybe my son, who knows more about computer than I do, is playing games with me, so I don't know where he going on line, I think maybe he changed something so I can't find where he's been. In whick case the boy will be in severe pain very soon.
I trying to get the contral panel to check the settings, but now when I click contral panel I just get a blank screen.
 
I'm not at all familiar with "Spysweeper," but suspect that a program which is designed to protect your privacy by preventing, [I assume] people from knowing what you're doing on the web, may be overprotecting you and erasing all your traces...including all bookmarks and cookies [small numeric tags installed as you visit sites interacting with other programs, etc.] You're likely "not signed into Google" because it's helpfully wiped the cookie that Google would use to identify your machine. Personally, I just use Norton Internet and not even all of it, because most of these programs have real problems telling friend from foe. I'd suggest that you disable SpySweeper for a while---if it's got a disable option---and see if that fixes your problem. Just stay off suspect sites while your guard is down: don't gamble, don't answer spam ads, and don't go to porn or marginal entertainment sites, don't let any other user do so, and you'll generally be much safer: these sites are notoriously full of hitchhikers. If you can't get it to disconnect, try going to Control Panel and go through the Add/Remove Programs procedures to boot the thing off your computer.

BUT: back up all data before beginning to do battle with this program. I don't trust it, after hearing what it's doing, and be safe: be sure you have a copy of everything you care about before trying to pry this thing off your disk. Five will get you ten it leaves some crap in the registry, but it may play nice and just get off your computer until you [for some reason] reinstall it.

If on the other hand removing it doesn't reset your defaults in Internet Options to don't-erase, go into Internet Options as I've indicated above and look at what the settings are: if it is set to erase things, set it not to erase, and that should fix that, while getting it off your disk should fix its interference in your browsing.

Understand: all the above is based on my personal belief that this program is the root of your problem, and I am NOT a computer expert. If these steps are too foreign to you, review them with someone who knows that area of Control Panel and is familiar with uninstalling programs and walk through this proposed action with a second opinion.
 
I think you should have a serious, eye to eye talk with your son. Your surmise that he hasn't wanted you to track his activity may be valid: and this blank screen is operationally ominous. He may, on the one hand, have picked up a virus. Or he may installed some second program that requires a password or procedure he may know, in which case I leave the solution in your hands.
 
When you open up windows explorer, go over on the left side and click the little star. See if it shows history. If none shows, he may be surfing the adult sites and clears out history, cookies, etc. Give him his own logon with a regular user permissions and NOT administrator. To do that, go to control panel and then users to set that up. If he already has his own logon, make sure it isn't set as administrator.
 
I have never clicked on any type of ad. As far as internet goes. I just go to my email, the few fish club sites, and check out the sponsors sites to droul over the fish and coral I would like. I might visit ebay to check out tanks and other supplies for sale. I know I live such an exciting life. I have all ads blocked so. I am useing AVG for virus protection, and spy sweeper for whatever that does.
As for my 15 year old son. I can only say I was hoping to trust him. But he is 15. I was under the impression the AVG and Spysweeper along with the windons thing would block his wandering eye.
 
Excellent suggestion: from a position as Administrator, you control that computer, and he can't change it without your passwords. Everything will refer him back to Administrator, namely you. And if you don't have the skill to do this, back up your programs, take it down to COmpUSA and tell them you want this thing reset with you as Admin.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9420473#post9420473 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DrBDC
When you open up windows explorer, go over on the left side and click the little star. See if it shows history. If none shows, he may be surfing the adult sites and clears out history, cookies, etc. Give him his own logon with a regular user permissions and NOT administrator. To do that, go to control panel and then users to set that up. If he already has his own logon, make sure it isn't set as administrator.
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For him, he goes on as guest, not administrator, But even though I change my password regularly, he has in the past figured it out.
 
You've either got to be more original about your passwords: possibly he's getting into Setup and mucking around in areas he shouldn't be in. Try a numeric password based on something only you know, and make things much, much more difficult for him. DO NOT write down a password and put it in your billfold, etc.
 
Darn it, Now you know my password, This sucks.
I keep trying, I can not get my control panel to come up. I click it and all it will do is flash. It is like something keeps blocking it from comeing up. I tried to turn off the spy sweeper, and the AVG, but that didn't help either. I can't get the control panel to come up at all. If I can't get that up, is there another way to change setting?
 
OK, go down to the bottom bar and right click then left click on properties. Then click on start menu, then click customize. From there click on the advanced tab. Where it says start menu items go to control panel and show as a menu. Then when you click ont the start button, control panel will let you see a menu choice and you can get to anything in the control panel. I would remove the spyblocker as vista already has one built in. There may be a conflict too.
 
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