Forum: Computer Help

Is anyone else having a problem waiting for pages to load in Ancestry? While loading, it says "waiting for c.cmfcreative.com". I googled it and it seems to be a problem with Firefox. The instructions to stop it happening were very complicated. Remove this, take out that, change this and...

Is anyone else experiencing this problem ?. On opening Internet Explorer I am getting a page about BT, sponsoring the Olympics, and I have to log onto my account before I can do anything with my search etc. Sometimes during a search it will revert to the original page and I have to start all over...

Okay this isn't exactly computer help, but anyway... I have a six month trial subscription to Ancestry, from a Family Tree Maker purchase, that expires in October. If I cancel it now, what effect is there on my access to the site?

Hi, this isn't a request for help, just a comment on a technophobe's day ............... 1. My printer recently went 'grind, bang, phut ' and I had to buy a new one. My son installed it for me today. 2, After son had gone home, I found that a Windows update meant I was unable to connect to...

Only for the last few weeks have experienced problems trying to download pdfs. Showing as runtime error and shutting down internet explorer. Any help appreciated

Hello, I have been creating hyperlinks between documents in MSWord Starter 2010. I am using a HP with Windows 7 Home Premium and a 64-bit operating system, (I am not using any information in my documents from the internet) and I have been using Adobe Reader X. The problem I keep coming across is,...

I came upon this the other day which is quite useful. You can use an external search engine like Google to search the forum in one go.You would put in: Simpson site:www.british-genealogy.com where Simpson is the thing you are looking for. This makes Google search the forum only rather than the...

I would like to email a lineage report produced by Legacy to another member of Brit Gen. I have tried saving it to a file, but the file it produces, Windows can't open. It seems to be called .rs6 I've tried copying it to the clipboard and pasting it into Word, but that produced an illegible...

This is gonna take some explaining, please bare with me. I am running Windows 7 I have 'Photobucket', as many others do. Now to save me having to log in and out of PB I have logged in and then on the tab at the top I have right-clicked and selected 'Pin as App Tab' ...

Recently had a new Sky HD box. I did not have the old one connected to the telephone line, but this one was connected. It virtually stoped my internet, with not enough speed to even open the first page. Removing the telephone line from the box cured the problem imediately. However Sky has detected...

Started this morning I am getting this large pop-up window every 2 minutes that is hard to remove from the screen. Seems to have a timer and eventually disappears named " Security Center " , Looks like the genuine Windows Security Center program Totally stops you from moving away...

For the last few days I am having problems with Ancestry loading and freezing up. I am using dial up and I usually have no problems apart from the speed of the connection. Other web sites seem to be behaving as usual. Has anyone got any suggestions or having the same problem ?

I have a small Canon MP240 scanner /printer. When I bought my new computer windows 7, it was still working from scan, hadn't tried to copy from computer. When I did-it wasn't plugged in. Son fixed that. Flashing light implored me to replace black ink. Did that,to makers insructions. Now...

Not such a computer problem but hoping someone can solve this for me please. I have tried twice now to send a member a message when I check my 'sent' box the message it not showing does this mean that their inbox is full maybe and the message is not being sent. Ewan

Folks, Over the last couple of weeks i have had a couple of problems with this site.Firstly,i enter detail,hit search and nothing happens.Secondly,enter detail,hit search but after 30 seconds it times out.Has anyone else had these problems?Does nayone have a contact at Lan OPC? Eric

Just in case anyone is interested in this technology, I am one of the triallists in the mid-Cornwall area who are on the trial. It is effectively a similar technology to that used by mobile phones - my router has a SIM card, just like those in mobile phones. The big difference is that, unlike a...

Since updating(?) to windows7 with all of it's new quirks to learn, I've bee very annoyed by the inability of the copy/paste action to paste in order of original text. everything appears in a descending file instead of horizontally across the page. 1st noticed in 1911 census. A previous copy was...

Hello all Until the recent demise of my old laptop I was using Windows XP and Firefox with Google Toolbar. My new laptop has Windows 7. Straight away I downloaded Firefox and then tried to add Google Toolbar, only to discover that the two no longer work together. Do I just have to learn to...

I had always thought that the gedcom system was infallible. Not so. Have justed exported a gedcom from Legacy 7 to Brothers Keeper and ran the inconsistency report to find that several dates have been transferred incorrectly. Used gedviewer to look at the gedcom and the errors are actually in...