posted 04-13-2001 10:41 AM            

Sometimes when I make a post, I do not have to refresh at all and my post shows up when I'm taken back to the page. Sometimes I have to wait until I am taken back to the page, then Refresh and the post shows up. But it always shows up.

If the problem was here at PGL, that wouldn't happen. I would be having the same problem as you are having.

It might help Tech Support if you posted what kind of browser and operating system and internet connection you are using. You may not be the only one who is having this problem.

Do you know how to clear your cache? If you use Windows 98 with Internet Explorer, this is what you do:

1. Click on "Tools" up top.

2. From the menu that drops down, click on "Internet Options."

3. From the window/menu thingie that will pop up onscreen, about the middle of it, you will see "Temporary Internet Files" and then a button that says "Delete Files." Click on that.

4. You will get another tiny window to pop up that asks if you want to delete all offline content as well. Click the radio button to do that.

5. Wait and the files will delete. Then clear your "History" folder the same way.

6. Then click "OK" at the bottom.

You're done.

And if you don't do this every day, at least once a day if not more if you are a big internet user, you should. YOU WILL NOT BE DELETING ANY OF YOUR PROGRAM OR ANY OTHER FILES!!!!

Every single page you visit on the internet downloads files into your computer -- image files, javascript, whatever. After you are done visiting that page, you really don't need those files anymore so it is safe to delete them. They are just extra baggage and garbage cluttering up your computer until you clean house.

Heh heh...of course, if you wanted to keep a picture or music or other file that was protected from being right-clicked on from the actual website, here is where you can go find them afterwards. But shhhh....I never told you that.

posted 04-13-2001 02:31 PM            

GIRLY, YOU SHOULD BE HIRED BY PGL!
Thank you so much. My computer froze on me and so I gave up. Now I'm going to try and
follow your suggestions but I need to consult with the 14 year old computer whiz to find out what a browser is. Puhlease don't laugh at me. I can type really fast
but other than that I have no idea what a computer is. See uh - you are a genius.

posted 04-13-2001 03:28 PM            

The road map or street you are travelling on is the internet.

The browser (driver) takes your computer (car) where you want it to go. And once you get there, the browser shows you what's at that destination (posted on that webpage).

I use Internet Explorer as my browser. Some people use Netscape. There are other ones, too, I guess but those are the main ones.

The browser is just the device that moves around and finds stuff for you and then shows it to you. It's not very complicated.

Sometimes, like when you want to wind back the sun roof on your car only you can't because you never had a sun roof in the first place you also can't see certain things on the internet if your browser never had the capacity in the first place to understand that object you are asking it to display.

Sometimes that happens because you need a special thingie called a plug-in before your browser can show you the image or object or webpage you asked it to show you by going there or by clicking on a link.

One example: If you go to http://www.shockwave.com your browser will not be able to show you all the neat-o stuff there if you do not have the shockwave plug-in for your browser. Sort of like one of those mini-translator guides tourists use when they visit a foreign country. Only the plug-in is the translator guide that lets your browser know what to display on your screen.

Sometimes your browser will not show you something because you need a 14-year-old whiz kid to tell the browser first that it's supposed to be seeing that stuff.

Computers are really dumb sometimes. They don't know shit unless you tell them first that they know it.

Sort of like a lot of drivers.

posted 04-14-2001 06:40 PM            

I feel like I'm in class. Thank you. You are way more knowledable than I am. I don't even want to tell you what a computer tech said to me that is after he stopped laughing.

posted 04-14-2001 08:02 PM            

And AOL just might BE the problem although I couldn't say for sure.

Okay, Tech Support....is AOL the fuck-up here or what?

posted 04-16-2001 01:58 PM            

When in doubt - blame AOL

Here's how to clear your cache in AOL:

1) Launch AOL

2) Go to Keyword: Preferences

3) Select Internet Propeties (WWW)

4) A window will pop up

5) Under 'Temporary Internet Files' - hit the 'Delete Files' button

That's it - let me know if it works or not

Thanks

posted 04-16-2001 03:57 PM            

I'm a blind PGL'er!

I'll let you know if cleaning my AOL Browser cachet works.

Sure would be wierd after all these months if the pickel could see what she wrote after she posts.