Bugs & Problems With The New Platform

[ChickensAreSweet]

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Just plain search. I didn't see the little advanced search button. I will have to try that out too.

 

[dewey]

While in "random ramblings" just now, there is a "virtual wallet" ad hiding the top toolbar "forum" drop down menu selections.

 

[raimnel]

ok I keep getting the blue screen of death. it usually happens when I'm typing a reply. I'm not sure what I do right before it goes to the blue screen. This last time I was in the smilies and decided not to insert a smilie so I clicked on cancel and BOOM! blue screen of death. what is causeing this? oh and it's only happening in BYC and only since the upgrade
Thanks

 

[dewey]

While in "random ramblings" just now, there is a "virtual wallet" ad hiding the top toolbar "forum" drop down menu selections.

This is no longer happening. Thanks!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I cannot find the BYC Rules. I did find a link to them in the Rule and Point System thread, but it just takes me to the forum index/toc

 

[Gargoyle]

I cannot find the BYC Rules. I did find a link to them in the Rule and Point System thread, but it just takes me to the forum index/toc

At the very bottom of every page, in the bottom row to the right is a link to Privacy/TOS. Is that what you're looking for?

 

[Lothiriel]

Gargoyle you're awesome! I've been looking around for the rules page myself and never found it. Thank you!

 

[MuddyHillFarm]

Please consider adding a filter in auction/ sales section. The filter needs to address sellers location. Perhaps Sellers could be instructed to include ZipCode in Title or you could add this as a filter. Many are local pickup but currently no way to know where they are located w/o opening the post

 

[greenSearcher]

Amy
The blue screen of death indicates the likelihood of problems on your end. Using this platform is taxing your systems resources. When this happened more often in the past, at work we would ask the user a series of questions, often walking them through the steps. If you wish more help than just a list of to dos then, and don't have a whiz kid at home, PM me. What I am listing is basic housekeeping for your PC using Windows. I use XP2000 so the commands reflect that, but it is a good stable system despite being old, I run FireFox as my browser and OpenOffice for my word and data processing needs. No Microsoft..
First!!! Make sure your virus program is updating daily, that the subscription data is current. If it has lapsed, you may find yourself w/ virus, bots and who knows what sharing your resources. If you get Mail Failure Daemons for mail you have never sent, it is a good indicator of problems.
Second: make sure your Firewall is enabled, keeps out the folks you don't want as guests.
Then:

If you are on a newer system, it is likely that the system does most of its own housekeeping, but that is not always enough. So

Click on <Start> <all programs> <accessories> <System tools> then one of the following:
<disk cleanup. or disk <defragmenter>
Disk Clean up scans your disk calculating how much space you will be able to free up, the files it looks at are:
Download files, Temporary Internet files, Offline web pages, recycle bin, set up log files, Temporary files and others including compress old files. Of this short list I keep my download files intact, the rest I have checked for the Disk cleanup to handle. Even w/ the fact I do regular housekeeping, I should recover about 3 Megs from doing this. Since I am compressing it will be awhile before I can look at defragging.
Disk Defragmenter tidies how your files are stored, so as many as possible are stored, contiguously (lined up in order, memory units adjacent to each other on the disk.) This can take hours, and hours if it has never been done, or if the system is more than 75% defragmented, in which case, the defragmenter will not respond and professional help is advised. My dear SIL is using that situation to justify a new computer. A couple hundred $ for the comp doc is nothing, a new computer is $1500+ usually for me. If you haven't done this before, Expect to start it up and then do something else. I tend to defrag when I go to bed and let the machine put itself to bed.
Another advantage of getting the computer serviced if it is much more than 3 years old , they can clean up your registry which is kinda like the brain stem of the machine. A clean registry allows the programs to find their places and data, and not go down dead ends wasting time. I have a simple repair program I run every few months.
Hope this helps, I suspect once you are done you will be amazed at how well things go.

 

[raimnel]

Thanks, I will do that tonight (it's been awhile)

if I have any questions, I'll go to my mom (she's the computer wiz)
my virus stuff is all good.
thankfully the computer is not that old lol it's 1 year old and I bought all the parts and built it myself (i'm so proud of me!) lol ok ok I had help, and we built our other one too. may just be cheaper!
Thanks again