Windows 2000 At times, no browsing

[ms]

"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in
news:uwjnrVvLJHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

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>> Good news- your earlier lookup command, my ISP text file did not have
>> that kind of data for my ISP so I called them. The address was
>> wrong- they had changed awhile ago, so I stopped browsing- wonderful!
>> They send a monthly billing email, could have notified people.
>>
>> They had me, in Internet Settings, change from a listed wrong address
>> to "find DNS automatically". That did it!
>>
>> A few minor questions:
>> My other XP and W98 machines work OK, so I guess I have to check as
>> above in each of them, they must be set to "find DNS automatically",
>> or they would have stopped browsing, as all my computers have the
>> same DUN settings.
>
> If the XP & W9x machines are working fine then they are probably
> already set to automatically find the DNS server, nowadays almost all
> ISPs have their clients use automatic settings obtain IP & DNS
> addresses.
>
>
>
>> Where is the normal log file that keeps track of events in W2K? I
>> just looked in C: and don't see it.
>
> They're .evt files in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config folder.
> (%SystemRoot% is a variable for the system folder, WINNT on Windows
> 2000, or the same thing as %Windir%). You can't really read these
> files without special tools, use the Event Viewer to view the logs.
>
>
>> Thanks again
>
> You're welcome, I glad to see that you got things fixed.
>
> John
>
>

Again, many thanks for your help.

ms

 

[Sid Elbow]

ms wrote:

> I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx 3 that
> the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no longer worked.
> They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.
>
> Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?

A search does turn up a number of (Firefox) bookmarks.html files but I
believe these are all left over from Firefox 2. I can't find anything
from FF3. Bookmark dropdowns etc *are* present as normal in the GUI
though and behave the same way and you can export them as an html file
if need be.

By "bookmark utilities" I assume you mean 3rd party Firefox add-ons. If
so, this is not a problem confined to bookmark utilities. The system of
user-generated add-ons sounds fine in theory but in my experience
whenever FF is updated (whether it be a version change or an
intermediate update), several of the add-on's fail. And being user
developed on an ad-hoc basis, there is no guarantee when (or if) these
utilities will ever be updated. Right now, I have more "broken" add-ons
than good ones. And given that FF seems to get updates even more
frequently than IE, I don't normally bother with the add-ons any more
they're just too much trouble.

 

[b.jeswine]

Re: [OT] At times, no browsing

In news:6lp0keFde2jcU1@mid.individual.net,
ms <ms@invalid.com> typed:

> I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx
> 3 that the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no
> longer worked. They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.

Whoever said that had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, as do
you.

> Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?

Of course not ... it's "bookmarks.html".

 

[ms]

Sid Elbow <here@there.com> wrote in
news:0342b4af$0$2119$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:

> ms wrote:
>
>> I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx
>> 3 that the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no
>> longer worked. They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.
>>
>> Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?
>
> A search does turn up a number of (Firefox) bookmarks.html files but I
> believe these are all left over from Firefox 2. I can't find anything
> from FF3. Bookmark dropdowns etc *are* present as normal in the GUI
> though and behave the same way and you can export them as an html file
> if need be.
>
> By "bookmark utilities" I assume you mean 3rd party Firefox add-ons.
> If so, this is not a problem confined to bookmark utilities. The
> system of user-generated add-ons sounds fine in theory but in my
> experience whenever FF is updated (whether it be a version change or
> an intermediate update), several of the add-on's fail. And being user
> developed on an ad-hoc basis, there is no guarantee when (or if) these
> utilities will ever be updated. Right now, I have more "broken"
> add-ons than good ones. And given that FF seems to get updates even
> more frequently than IE, I don't normally bother with the add-ons any
> more they're just too much trouble.

My comment was from people that, like me, use separate utilities- Moz
Backup for backing up Fx bookmark files, etc. I use extensions, they
behave as you describe in new versions, I only use PrefBar.

It appears there's a way to work with FX 3, but I have no reason to
upgrade. In over 10 years, I've never seen a internet threat due to my
"outdated" software. I keep the same browsing patterns.

ms

 

[Sid Elbow]

Re: [OT] At times, no browsing

b.jeswine wrote:
> In news:6lp0keFde2jcU1@mid.individual.net,
> ms <ms@invalid.com> typed:
>
>> I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx
>> 3 that the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no
>> longer worked. They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.
>
> Whoever said that had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, as do
> you.
>
>> Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?
>
> Of course not ... it's "bookmarks.html".

Are you sure your bookmarks.html file is associated with FF3 and not a
left-over from FF2? (I'm talking about a real bookmarks file in the
Documents and Settings tree not the short file in the Firefox\defaults tree)

Why the confrontational attitude btw?