PC probs..Knoppix Time...cheapest Windows 7??

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Shep --> 10 things you can do when Windows XP wont boot | TechRepublic

Eleven if one includes using the computer as a door stop.

[Undercover Elsa]

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That's quite possible FP
The odd thing is though that it's spread throughout a particular folder on my external drive, which has many subfolders containing different website files, unconnected and which have never been on the same server. Spread seems to be limited to this 1 top level folder called Exdrive which was stuff saved from a previous pc.

[Undercover Elsa]

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It gets worse!!!

After spending all week setting up my wonderful windows 7, transferring my zillions of emails & folder system to windows live mail etc etc, yesterday Avast did an update and started going ballistic about loads of html files in my website folders, quarantining them as trojan infected.
Thought at first it was a false positive but when I reinstated and checked, there was a load of nasty SVChost code injected at the foot of each page.

These had come from my external drive so I scanned that and it found loads more, although only in certain folders. Deleted those. Checked source on online versions - fine.

Did a full scan and it found more bugs brought from my external drive.
Avast told me to restart and do a boot scan which I did....

This morning...blinking cursor on black screen at startup.
Went into BIOS...drive not detected
Booted from Win 7 disk...drive/op system not detected

Now this is exactly what happened on the OTHER (XP) drive after doing a disk scan, so there seems to be a common factor here..ie intense activity at boot level on either drive is buggering something up.
So now I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue with mobo or RAM???
Any ideas anyone before I get the hammer out?

(I'm currently back on the old drive with reinstalled XP. I've uninstalled AVAST before it get chance to update, just in case it's a dodgy version. Now installed MS Security Essentials.)

[SXGuy]

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I agree, it should be standard across all browsers, its ment to be, but they all like their little quirks, and hope that because of it, their browser becomes the main one, and hope everyone else follows suit.

Personally, code should be 1 standard, that all browsers have to comply to.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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I agree.

Why can't we have one simplified CSS structure that works cross-browser?

It's not that hard, I mean the new css3 <article> class works in all browsers but ie - why? It's stoopid cos then you need to add a <container> div to keep it in check. It's wasted code and wasted resource loading of page content IMO.

[SXGuy]

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when you have installed updates for windows etc, create a backup disk, save you doing it all over again.

Its likely when chkdisk ran, it allocated sectors in a default order to repair, but that will obviously crash your windows install, because all the files are all over the place.

Was a common error with Vista, due to a corrupt update file, but is not an issue under Windows 7.

Best advise, upgrade to Win 7 asap, havent had 1 issue yet.

Its true that sites render different in different browsers, one common problem is IE will revert bad CCS styling to default, so it appears correct, firefox etc doesnt, so appears badly formated.

Common issue is using negitive margins and paddings, in firefox for example, if you use layered divs, and negitive values, it adds them together, which creates massive spacing that you didnt want!

All browsers should render sites correctly proving you tweak the CCS abit, some use different formating, others using the same but render it differently. can be a mission in itself lol

[Never-In-Doubt]

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You'll find all our sites are geared toward firefox, opera, safari & chrome so they'll work fine (much better than before on ie) now you're using a decent browser.

Load them all as each does different things. As a designer (you), firefox has sylish and debug console whereas chrome has inspect element.

I use Firefox as main browser with chrome running when I'm coding as the inspect element is awesome for in-browser edits. That's why when I update the forums in live mode it usually goes straight through cos I'm using inspect element editing the feel within seconds of adding the update.

Just my opinion but I do have all browsers cos each displays different too. One of your sites is built to ie but crashes in Firefox - remember I told you? However ours will work in ie but things may be centred or have bigger gaps and missing bits as ie doesn't accommodate css3 which all our sites run on.

Check AAD in Firefox and see crisp straight corners. Now open in ie and you'll see they're rounded corners - that's an ie fix to stop it crashing/overlapping. In safari it'll also be rounded as that's similar to ie but it does accept shadow/size divs etc unlike ie which ignores such commands without a relevant fix. Our CSS has 5 ie fixes to make font styles etc work. Thus I say it's shyte and time consuming.

[Undercover Elsa]

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LOL well spotted Niddy. I can't screenprint mine because it shows our facebook account with pics, but here's a generic screenshot of the top sites page:

Safari 4 Beta for Windows Screenshots - Safari 4 Beta Web Browser - About Web Browsers - Top Sites

They all knock the socks of IE8 for addons, security & speed, from my tests before I chose Safari.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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Pompey remove image above.

Your name shows by email. I'm on phone do can't edit

[BBoo]

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I use Speed Dial with Firefox and find it's very good. It isn't graphical, but it assigns numbers to favourite pages, so for AAD I press Ctrl + 2, Google Ctrl + 6, Nymphomaniac Housewives Ctrl + ......... Ooops, nearly gave that one away then!

[Undercover Elsa]

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Yep now I've decided to make the switchover can't wait!

I've also been road testing different browsers over the last few days (mainly because of your comments about IE8 Niddy plus the fact that it was putting up a really annoying security error every time I Googled, now that Google's diverting to https. )
I've fallen in love with Safari for Windows, it's brilliant!!! I love the web2 interface and the fact that you can set it to load straight to a graphical page of personalised "top sites". Very fast too, compared to "Interminable Explorer".
(I used to have an Imac and I liked it on there so it's great that it works on windows now)
I'll be putting it here on the lappy too when I've got the main pc sorted.

Thankyou to all you lovely people on here for helping, I don't know what I'd do without you!!

Shep x

[Never-In-Doubt]

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To save further messing with it I've formatted and reinstalled XP as a temp measure. That's going fine so far, just downloading windows updates (yawwwn) but I've been kindly offered a Win 7 disk so I can then sort out the other hard drive and transfer everything on to there.

I've hung onto XP for too long anyway!

Yep I was copied into email by Pompey - go win7, it's way better

[Undercover Elsa]

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Thanks Niddy...tried all sorts...it was just hanging on the scan disk screen everytime it restarted after everything I tried via the XP CD.
Nothing worked...there's an ominous click every 5 seconds on the drive now too.

To save further messing with it I've formatted and reinstalled XP as a temp measure. That's going fine so far, just downloading windows updates (yawwwn) but I've been kindly offered a Win 7 disk so I can then sort out the other hard drive and transfer everything on to there.

I've hung onto XP for too long anyway!

[PlanB]

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[Never-In-Doubt]

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Try a restore to an earlier point prior to last updates so go back to an update in April and revert back.

See what that does. It's the explorer.exe that seems to be bad.