Seems like every 6 months or so something will mess up on this thing that I can't figure out. Hopefully next year or maybe even later this year I can dump this thing (Compaq, Windoze ME), but for right now, I need occasional help to keep it chugging along.

Last week or two ago, seemed to pick up 2 problems simultaneously.
First one the tech at my ISP helped me at least do a "work around" on when the button on my keypad (like a "instrument panel" set of buttons) would no longer activate my dialler. The tech had me to an icon on my desktop to connect to my ISP, so I could get online (a "shortcut" button to my ISP). So that does work, but once that's done I still need to use the buttons on my keyboard again to access OE or IE (seperate button for each), so just a little inconvenient, not bad, but anyone know what may have prompted this and if I can make it the way it was before? Previously I would usually hit the button for E-mail (OE I guess) to go to my ISP-provided emails, then another button to launch IE. I can copy and paste the message that I receive if I try doing that now if anyone would like to see it.
The second problem at this point is a little more irritating. When on IE, if I go to a site, which opens in a new window, I guess you would say, the window size is smaller than full-screen and I need to press the "maximize" button every darn time a new window needs to open. NO idea what's going on here, again the problems seemed to start at the same time.
I'm wondering if there is something infected here? I tried the "hijack this" program but need someone to interpret the results, don't know if this would even pertain to the problem. I did a total scan for errors and came up empty handed. i did AVG 6.0 and it did come up with something about a "sober" virus, but now if I run AVG again it comes up clean, so maybe it got rid of it and there are a few things it ruined or reset I need to fix? I also have Adaware 6.0, which picks up the usual tracking cookies from time to time, and also CWShredder, which is coming up clean.

Any thoughts from the puter whizzes around here?

Gilly

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