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And for reasons unknown to me/the Content Advisor in Win 95 on my p.c. has lost it's mind. As soon as I open a web browser/it pops up telling me My Content Advisor settings are missing... Pls. go to Tools, Internet Options, clikcon Content then select Setting. But when I do that/it won't let me click on Disable -- nothing happens. And when I click on Settings, it asks me for a password. I have NEVER password-protected anything on my computer. Nor have I tinkered w/the Content Advisor atall. I haven't installed anythign new on my computer in months. Altho in desperation/I did call the AOL Helpline asking for assistance/ And they told me to delete some file w/n Content Advsor that must ne corrupted. So now it's prolly totally screwed up. I'm sick of having to drive to the parental units hse. just to surf the web. And I'd hate to spend $45 to put my computer in the shop for something that I'm sure will take 15 min. to troubleshoot. Any suggestions? You might wanna email me/since I may not get back to my parents' hse./hence back to Sorabjiland/for a couple of days. |
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Even w/the windows down I was WET by the time I pulled into the parking lot. WHICH SUCKS -- why shd i bother showering & putting on deoderant & baby powder when I know I'm gonna be all funky & sweaty 2 minutes after I get into my car! (And I cdn't leave it parked all nite w/the windows open/becuz it's LOVE BUG SEASON. Arrggh!) My car may be a hoopdee/but it's a small hoopdee ('88 Nissan Sentra)/so the a.c. only takes abt 10 min.to cool it off. (Providing it hasn't been sitting in the sun w/all the windows up for hrs.} Thank Goddess it rained briefly this evening/just before I left work. I'd had the good sense to run out & put my windows up when I saw the sky clouding up. It was just a quick shower/but at least it cooled things off to the point where I wasn't sweating bullets on the way home. And everyone keeps telling me that getting the freeon replaced in such an old car is gonna cost me a zillion dollars... Any luck on fixing my Content Advisor, guys? Where's Nate -- the knows all abt such things. |
i should know this, i used to do it in my sleep at my last job, and it has come in handy as information.. basically there is a key in your windows registry that can just be deleted and it will take the value off of the content advisor thinking there needs to be a password. bassically. return it to factory as far as the content advisor is concerned. but you have to be like super okay with being in your registry. it is kind of like handling a gun, you have to be comfortable with it, but still not loose sight of the fact that you mess anything up here it is indeed all over. now doesn't that sound scary? not really. i will have the answer within 24. kymical out |
go to run on the start menu type in "regedit" this will open another window calle reistry editor. enter with caution, follow these to the letter. as you click on each of the folders to open them, more will come out from underneath it. be on the look out. if you don't see the folder that is within these instructions. don't choose something kind of like it. but this will get you o where you need to be if you are indeed using 95. without the 5.0 upgrade. with 5.0 you might still find these folders in the registry. 5.0 is a bit more sticky in the registry department tho. Hkey_Local_Machine folder software folder Microsoft folder windows folder current version folder policies folder ratings folder Highlight "key" in right window and delete Click on the file menu and choose exit regedit Click on the start button Click on shutdown Click on restart computer Click OK Right click once on internet explorer icon on desktop choose properties from the pull down menu Select the security tab Click on disable ratings <if it is available> Click on OK without entering anything when prompted for a password click on OK when warned that content advisor has been disabled i get metaphysical. |
am i not really here? who's tongue is that in my mouth?! |
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unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, five in the third... ------------------------ A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ------------------------ The Web site you seek Can not be located but Countless more exist. ------------------------ Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ------------------------ ABORTED effort: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. ------------------------ Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. ------------------------ Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ------------------------ First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies So beautifully. ------------------------ With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. ------------------------ The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao-until You bring fresh toner. ------------------------ Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. ------------------------ A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. ------------------------ Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ------------------------ You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. ------------------------ Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. ------------------------ Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. ------------------------ Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank |
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