Help: Content Advisor

Subject: Help: Content Advisor
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 07:05 PM

Help, I can't get Content advisor to retain the settings I type in. It keeps reverting to a nil permission state.

Every time I launch IE, I get a message about incomplete Content Advisor, and can't load any pages.

I go to content advisor, reset the settings, disable Content Advisor and things work - until I close the session. When I reopen it, I've lost the settings.

And if I open a second session, while the first one is running, that doesn't work till I change the settings. But that undoes the settings in the first session.

I didn't want the sodding thing in the first place, anyway. Is there any way to permanently delete or disable it?

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 07:41 PM

Best thing might be to uninstall IE, and then re-install it, and make a point of never enabling Content Adviser at any time.

Once it's been enabled, every now and again it seems to keep on switching itself on, at maximum censorship setting, no matter what you do.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Guessed
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:34 AM

some people are never content!

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: MMario
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:50 AM

yup - that happens with content advisor. McGoH has the easiest solution.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 12:53 PM

A somewhat "arcane" trick that may work -

When you change settings in a running program, the changes may not be written permanently to registry files until Windows is shut down. Opening a new "instance" of the program may re-read the registry, and get the old "permanent" settings.

If you make your changes, and then - before proceding - do a Start-Shutdown-restart, you can sometimes force the changes to be written into the registry, where they will "stick."

This doesn't always work, but it's a little quicker than doing a reinstall - which is probably the next step if this doesn't solve the problem.

John

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Amos
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 07:31 PM

Wow! Great operating system, I don't think!!

A

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: kendall
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 08:13 PM

I have the same problem, so, I went to netscape. I've had it with I.E and with O.E.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 09:01 PM

Restarting doesn't cure it, nor does restoring an old registry. I'll try the IE re-install next. Thanks.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:22 PM

it's like having a fast car with lots of gadgets and automatic seats and colored lights on the dash.....

except the motor sometimes cuts out... and it decides it won't make left turns, only right turns....and the radio is set by default to one station every time you turn it on...and GPS that came factory installed calls home and reports everywhere you have driven...

You'd keep that car about a week before you got rid of it...

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 10:58 PM

click here

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:47 PM

There are several free browsers out there. Netscape, Mozilla, Opera. All the equal of IE and one faster.

Subject: Thankyou
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 07:30 PM

Amergin, U am da MAN.

That link went straight to the problem and told me how to fix it in 2 minutes. Mudcat is the best. There is so much knowledge here of everything - songs, music theory, computers, cookery, etc, etc - and you guys are so willing to share that knowledge with the rest of us. Awesome.

I owe you one.

WassaiL! V

Subject: More thanks
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 07:32 PM

Not forgetting a huge thanks to Jeff (Pene Azul) who held my hand and kept coming up with helpful suggestions on PMs through two long, difficult nights. You guys are the greatest.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 07:47 PM

I still cant find any info on why I cant open any links that come via e mail. I switched to netscape, and, same problem.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 07:52 PM

How do I uninstall I.E and reload it without the CD?

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:18 PM

You could download it fromhere, or order at CD for the cost of package and post. (I got mine though from a free CDRom included with a magazine I can buy in the supermarket, which cost less then the package and post would, and has lots of other handy stuff on the CDRom as well.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:32 PM

Kendall -

McGrath is right. You can get IE from any number of places. The best source is probably Microsoft.

As to uninstalling IE, Start - Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Software is a start. There are, however, some limitations to the uninstall for IE - different for different versions.

I would suggest getting familiar with the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base. You can search for all kinds of stuff here. (You can also get a headache from digging around too much.)

I don't know for sure which version of IE you have currently installed, but one of the following may be helpful:

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 5 (Q217344)

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5 (Q257234)

How to Manually Uninstall Internet Explorer 5 for Windows 95 (Q243678)

If any (or all) of the last links don't work, you can go to the first link (Knowledge Base) and just enter the "Q-number" to find specific articles.

The following article gives some interesting information about IE5.5, but most pertinent is a simple list of steps to follow to install IE by download from Microsoft, including a simple connection to their download site. I'd suggest taking a look at it before you start your process.

Internet Explorer 5.5 Components That Are Not Downloaded or Installed with Full Install Option (Q259843)

After any significant change to your browser - IE or whatever - you should, of course, check for upgrades to make sure you've got the latest "security upgrades."

John

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:35 PM

Kendall -

Forgot to mention: you can also install any version of TurboTax for tax year 2001 and it will automatically, without asking, and without your permission, install IE5.5 for you.

The BASTARDS!

John

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:27 PM

I'm running windows 98 and Internet explorer 6.2

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:30 PM

there you go....go to add/remove programs and double click on the internet explorer....and revert the program to a previous installation....and then reboot....

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 12:07 AM

As Amergin says, the Uninstall under add/remove programs will revert to either a previous version, or to a default version of IE. For Win98, I believe the default is IE5.01.

Windows uninstall will not (but never say never) leave you without some version of IE - because, as Microsoft says, components of IE are tied into non-network functions of Windows.

For most problems, simply reinstalling - with or without removing an existing version - should be sufficient, although the install program may belch and quit if you try to replace with something older than what you currently have.

The only situation I've found where you need to do a full (manual) uninstall of IE is (sometimes) to setup the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) that's built into Windows since Win98. After you run "Uninstall IE," manual deletion of some 30 or so files may be required, depending on your setup, followed by reinstallation of critical parts or IE to make Windows work right again. Don't go there if you don't really have to - and I'd strongly urge that you have the Windows install CD handy if you do.

Poking around the Knowledge Base - with a search on your symptoms, is fairly likely to find an answer to any problems, and you may find that you don't really need that re-install.

John

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: kendall
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 12:57 PM

I've hunted from Hell to Hackney for the answer. The only place they offer it is in a book which I can buy.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 08:23 PM

Kendall -

I know you've had this problem with links in email for some time, and I can certainly understand the frustration.

If I understand correctly, the main problem is that links in email messages won't connect.

Most people use a separate program for email - so your problem may be there rather than with IE or netscape. In the typical Mickey$oft setup, you would use Outlook or Outlook Express. You may also have run into MSN Explorer, which is NOT the same thing as Internet Explorer - and which, I understand, does some rather peculiar things.

You should actually be able to click on "links" in virtually any program - Word, Excel, even NotePad, etc, and get the web connection. If these kinds of links work, and it's only in email that there's a problem, then most likely it's your email program that's not doing right by you.

I can't offer anything now other than sympathy, but I'll keep poking around.

John

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 09:06 PM

Reinstalling is no hassle at all, if you've got a CDRom with the program on it.

If you've got the installation CD for Internet Explorer you could remove just Outlook Express and reinstall that, and that might solve the problem.

And if you can't get a CD with Internet Explorer on it I could send you one kendall - I'd imagine that it'd still be the same in spite of coming from the other side of the Atlantic.(PM me with your address if you'd like me to stick it in the envelope.)

One thing, which isn't relevant to this immediate problem, with the up-to-date 6.2 version of Internet Explorer it doesn't seem to Front Page Express included, whereas earlier version like 5.0 did. It's a useful program, and I use it for doing my websites. I've found that all you need do if you've got IE 5.0 somewhere on a CD, you just go through the install, and just get it to install Front Page Express, and it doesn't mess up the IE 6.2 which is installed.

Subject: RE: Help: Content Advisor
From: Big John
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 09:16 PM

Whatever it is that you are talking about has probably been corrupted by some recently installed program. I have no technical know-how but when I have your kind of problem I re-set my computer to an earlier date and it usually works for me.