Computers

Hi.

I joined this forum recently, I filled in the registration etc and each time I go onto the forum I cannot log in as my password is not recognised. I have requested new passwords, got into the site and changed the password to a more rememberable one. I have gone back onto the site and still cant get in. I have used the reset password to post this. What is wrong.

ScruffyB

Looks like you have used two different login names both with different e-mails so maybe you are using the password from one to login as the other. Your other username is the one you have been using more recently.

J

Edited By JasonB on 24/03/2014 09:00:14

Hi Jason.

I got a reset password this morning, got into the forum using that password the went through my profile resetting my password adding my address and phone number and putting my avatar back. I logged out then logged on again and it would not accept my password so I used the reset password to get back on. I have left the computer on the forum since.

ScruffyB

I had exactly the same problem when using the Google browser.

Diane Carney suggested trying Firefox browser and I have had no trouble since.

Thanks Diane.

John Parslow

One possibility, if you have two accounts, is that your browser cache is getting confused, especially if it was set to 'remember me' for the old account.

Try clearing the cache.

Neil

Hi.

What is a cache? Again I have had to use the "reset password" to access the forum although my avatar has been posted/ added or whatever it is called. I have a thing with my computer, I keep putting my arms round it, not as a love thing but in order to throw it out of the door and run over it with the 4 x 4 which gives me no trouble.

Recently I changed computers as my 14 year old XP professional edition with the Windows 7 update got so frustrating that I changed it for a brand new one with Windows 8 no less. This one has 500 somethings of whatever, it has a whole tiger bite, it has a thing called tripe, things were put onto a mammary stick and backed up with something hard, A good friend of mine, who owns a full size Marshall Roller, set up the newly acquired stress machine for me. Watching this process stressed me out even more but I have now got to grips with the stupid thing (I think). I have gone through the settings thing, put in all my personal details some of which my wife knows nothing about, set an avatar which I see has been accepted, I have lost my photo album and I still cannot get onto the forum. I do not understand why there should be two accounts unless the old account was transferred with the mammary stick thing.

One would think that with the advent of new technology that things would get easier rather than harder. How on earth does one downsize photos on Windows 8, even I could manage it with ease on Windows 7.

If anyone fancies a holiday in central Brittany I have a holiday cottage here. (excuse the plug but I have to get model engineering money from somewhere).

ScruffyB

Regards

If you are using Google , on the top right corner of the Google page there are three bars, click on them and you will get a table and then scroll down and see, 'History' click on that and set how far back you want to clear history. I set it to clear history as far back as possible, 'The beginning of time'.

Cache cleared.

Clive

Hi Clive.

Thanks. I have now reset my password and even put some photos on the album. I am now going to Le Grande Halt in Meneac for a 5 course lunch, a glass or 3 of red wine and a coffee all for 11 euros.

Roger

Roger, try and download, 'Pixresizer' this will allow you to resize pics. to the forum size you need.

Clive

Hello Roger,

I'm no help to you at all but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your description of the frustrations you have suffered, in particular the mammary stick thing was masterful and had me in tears of laughter.

Thank you, so refreshing!

Kind regards

Brian

Roger

Join the club - membership fee is whatever you paid for the collection of mental misery purveyed by Microsoft under the guise of 'computer'.

These things are the spawn of the Devil! I have, to my eternal shame, used them since the early 90's and have the 'rage lines' to show for it. How ANY system based solely on the transposition of a series of 0s and 1s can generate so much misery is beyond me.

I have just spent 4 days trying to re-instate internet access on my desktop. Microsoft's 'Help' system equates to motorcycle ashtrays. Looking up the problem on Google generated 19 pages of similar misery but with a variety of solutions - none of which worked for me. The eventual answer was so convoluted as to defy simple description and involved the use of an Android tablet, the output of an electronics 'fiddler' in the US of A and a cable 'hook-up' that I hadn't used for about ten years! Joseph Heller MUST have worked for Microsoft!!

Yes, I could have migrated to Ubuntu or similar or shelled out even more cash for the rip-off delights of Apple (Do a search for 'Apple Mac problems' but sticking with something which is vaguely familiar has its 'attractions'.

My advice? ... Most helpful has been the aviation forum Pprune.org, which has a Computer sub-forum with inputs from a number of people who demonstrably understand these things. They don't have all the answers but have, over the years, dragged me from confused beginner to confused long-time user

Stick with it, Roger - it won't get any better but you will become accustomed to the frustration and anger!

Rgds

Bill

My machine must be the only one where to switch off you press start. This is called logic.

Yeah, Thanks For The Mammeries, Roger.

Martin.

Yes, but it is completely logical.

After all if you want to switch off, you have to start somewhere.

Ian P

Bill,

Only 20+ years of Os and 1s misery, you are a mere beginner, those damn things have been around since the middle of the last century

Haven't you guys heard. Windows fixes itself now. My new Windows 8 laptop has been repairing itself for the last 3 days, after it ran into a problem during the 8.1 upgrade. The laptop keeps restarting and then goes into repair mode. I'm hoping it will be done by the weekend as I have some work to do on it.

Steve

Now then - my computer is ( like me some would say) reaching the end of it's useful life. If it could groan it would. Now all my kids are artists / designers and they say "Dad - for goodness sake get a Mac" Now as it hasn't been raining recently I assume they mean one of those Apple thingies. So then given that a fruity computer is about twice the price of a new version of the comfortable slow old windows machine should I take their advice?

Norman

Hi all yet again.

Further to the dilemma I now consider myself to be a computer geek. I have gone through the set up thing and now have my avatar AND I have put back my photo album. Call me god from now on. I now need something to discuss or ask about model engineering. How about has anyone got a copy of the boiler drawing for the 7.1/4" gauge Black 5 called Highlander by Martin Evans that they don't want or could copy or even email.

Lunch at Le Grande Halt was superb. We started by trying to eat everything on the buffet, salads, cooked meats, boiled eggs etc etc followed by the biggest chicken leg I have ever seen with about 4 sacks of chips. Then came the cheese board followed by strawberry tart, coffee and a carafe of the old red plonk to wash it all down. I am now going into the workshop to do battle with the 7.1/4" Adams Radial which is about as frustrating as Windows 8.

Regards.

ScruffyB Meneac. France

Norman.

You sound like a Yorkshire man as it is wot I is, Bradford even.

We have a phrase up north, " stick to what you know "

Why have I got a No1 after my name. Roger Beere1, is it because I am No1 in computers or No1 in model engineering, No1 love maker (to computers as in slinging the thing out of the door)?

My holiday cottage is still empty.

ScruffyB

Norman,

Sorry to put a downer on your secret ambition (only joking) to own a Mac.

If you care to look at the link below from PC Advisor you will be enlightened as to the reasons why you shouldn't and should stick to a PC.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/videos/3493092/5-reasons-why-pcs-are-better-than-macs-mac-vs-windows-pc--which-is-best/

Len.P.