I'm getting the same and I know the only change to my system was an update from Microsoft to fix Internet Explorer versions 6,7 and 8.
These things are frequently called "security updates for Windows XP" (or Vista) and are very commonly installed without you knowing about it. They usually do more good than harm and I'd suggest you don't change the settings on your computer.
However, if you want to remove this update, you'll need to open the Control Panel and seek out the 'Add or Remove Programs' icon. Once this has finished listing everything you have (it may take a few moments to complete), tick the option to "Show Updates" - again, this will take a moment or two. Now you'll be able to select the entry called "Security update for Windows XP (KB972260)" and you'll be able to remove it.
However, be aware that removing this update could increase your exposure to remote attack over the 'net - it was released in order to repair a weakness that hackers have been exploiting since the beginning of the month*.
I don't know of an alternative solution at the moment; you can always use an alternative browser but IE is a habit many people don't want to chnage from - myself included - but if I do work out how to keep the update and get IE working, I'll post.
In the meantime, go and do something more useful with your time and stop chatting! ;-)
* Source:
Finally got the time to have a look at this.
My experience so far:
1. It seems slow to load and not much better to use (vanilla XP, up to date service packs, etc on Turion64/ 2Gb RAM - not slow hardware - It's a new OS install with nothing other than Office, Flash & pdf viewer), 2Mb Internet. Okay, I know there's the overhead of the initial load, but that's a one-off.
What's the recommended specs for this chat?
2. There's problems with the display - I'm currently looking at a room with icons for the rooms, but no names; icons for the members but no names against them. Tabs and other items to the left are also blank. So much missing there must be something serious wrong - so why didn't it throw an error? Certainly unusable as it is at the mo here.
What software does this expect to find that it can't auto-load?
3. Had several 'you appear to be logged in already' messages a couple of hours ago when I first tried this beta. Put this down to the chat directing me off to install flash and getting itself confused about my login state. If this was the cause, then it's a one-off issue & not quite so serious.
4. Clicking logout doesn't close the window; it should. This window was spawned to handle the chat; close the chat = close the window!
So. Other than being slow, buggy and confused about life, I think it's fine! lol
Red,
Get the same here, so it's not just you.
Every time I have gone to S1 in the past, I've always been placed into the same room - I suspect the software that's meant to evenly distribute people amongst the standard rooms (Bar, Pool, etc) isn't working for S1 and that this problem is a manifistation of that. There's nothing you can do about it because it's the chat software that decides where you're about to be put and if that software's up the creek...
Best advice? Sigh, make a cuppa and try again.
Quadratics, sometimes (when I have to & even then, not often).
French / German / Greek and Latin - wish I'd given more attention to the first two; certainly be useful to me now! Latin's helped understand a smattering of several languages and made me appear rather smarter than I am over luch on a few occasions!
Topic I think they should cover: There's too many; a little geography would have helped one sales guy I had... phoned up from the car in a Bristol sidestreet & asked for the name of his contact but was shoked to find that Birmingham is rather more north! He left the company and for all I know he's still trying to find his home! ;-)
While we're on the subject: Do they still teach English in British schools? After reading some CV's applying for a position recently, I wonder...
You want a caption? How about...
No ya idiot, I said I want ta fuck it !
Sorry Jim - I added the 'not in London' bit as you were posting - you wouldn't have seen it.
Same film: "We might not be right good"
and "Who wants to see this dance?"
Spot on Jim.
Number 2. Want some clues? It's a Brit film but not set in London
Perfect answer! Remind me to take you next time I'm on a small island!!
:-)
1. "I'm an oak man. You like Oak, Jimmy?"
"Oaks...nice"
2. "You could drown yourself"
"I can't swim"
"That's the whole bloody point"
3. "Do you trust your wife?"
Okay...
You find yourself marooned on an island. It's rectangular, about a mile wide, E-W, and 2 miles long, N-S. It's covered with very dry grass - all over. You can't jump off the sides as the cliffs are too high and you wouldn't survive the drop; you can't hang off the edges because the edges are too weak to support you. You wake up one morning in the middle of the island and on the wind, you can smell fire. Loking south, you can see it coming..blown by the wind, 1 mile wide fire...
Survive. How?
319m - not as much fun as OrcaSlap!
Men?? Chicken??? No way!! We're fighting machines, bred to cause insurmountable problems for society at large!!!
Mind you, all I require is corn, some grit and a nice hayloft and I'm happy
Every time there's a z in the month...without fail
<single male - what did you expect ;-) >
So. 75 votes cast and only 16% of women would shag an ugly bugger. OMG, there's even less chance for me than I thought!
:violin:
Now that last message really WAS pointless!
"There has never been a better time to visit the Middle East because........."
The Americans have recently said they intend to pull out, so it might be the last place on earth you can go to without any risk of running into 'Dubbya' Bush!
Way to go! You made me smile! From one newbie to another: Welcome
Speaking as a newbie (two weeks or so) I think there's a number of people who's opinion I'd value and probably a couple who I wouldn't care much about - as in life in general, I suppose! No names, no pack drill - so Smoking... I'll say nothing unless I'm tortured... LOL <---Joke!
It's interesting to compare the adverts in the Photo Ads area with the people in here...I get the impression that most people in here don't have a current advert - and why should you; it's clearly better to get to know someone in the forums than in a simple one-line advert and I'm begining to realise there's more to this than I first thought.
On balance, I think you're friendly, open and honest and I look forward to being able to meet you in person.
Does that answer the question? Hope so. Would welcome a PM from anyone who wants to discuss it further
Hey - I was thinking of a hosepipe!! Damn computers... sex on the brain!
:D :D . please please anyone reply so that I know that i've pressed the right buttons 
thanks for listening.
:wave: :wave: