jmcampbell5
11-06-01, 11:11 AM
I have a really strange problem that no one seems to know what to do with, including Cox@home. I'm hoping someone here recognizes it.
This problem began immediately following installation of Cox@home. At first it occurred occasionally (say once a month), but as of two days ago, it has become pretty much constant. I call it the "twilight zone".
What happens is I boot up the computer and all my icons are black -- desktop icons, status bar, toolbars, etc. All my programs appear to run correctly (albeit with black icons) -- EXCEPT my internet browser and Outlook.
When I run these, it's as if I've entered another realm -- thus my nickname "The Twilight Zone". In the browser, my history is NOT the history from the last time I used the browser in its normal state. It is the history from the last time I used the program while running with the black icons in Twilight Zone mode. In Outlook, my emails are not the emails I sent and received, say, a day ago. They are emails that I sent and received the last time I was in Twilight Zone mode. My Outlook folders are the default Outlook folders. They do not contain all the folders I created in my normal Outlook account.
When I shut down, restart and get a normal multi-colored view of things, I open Outlook, and voila, my normal account is back. However, now I cannot access those emails that are in the Twilight Zone. They are over there on the "other side." I cannot intentionally go find them. I don't know how to get there. I will see them the next time the black icons show up, indicating that I am back in the Twilight Zone.
As I said earlier, this was an occasional occurrence that was annoying, but @home technicians were unable to help so I learned to live with it -- rebooting whenever it happened. Now the rebooting is not helping. I fear I am perpetually trapped in the Twilight Zone.
I'm running Windows 98 on a Compaq Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM if that helps. I have plenty of memory left, by the way.
Any thoughts from anyone? Have you heard of such a thing?
This problem began immediately following installation of Cox@home. At first it occurred occasionally (say once a month), but as of two days ago, it has become pretty much constant. I call it the "twilight zone".
What happens is I boot up the computer and all my icons are black -- desktop icons, status bar, toolbars, etc. All my programs appear to run correctly (albeit with black icons) -- EXCEPT my internet browser and Outlook.
When I run these, it's as if I've entered another realm -- thus my nickname "The Twilight Zone". In the browser, my history is NOT the history from the last time I used the browser in its normal state. It is the history from the last time I used the program while running with the black icons in Twilight Zone mode. In Outlook, my emails are not the emails I sent and received, say, a day ago. They are emails that I sent and received the last time I was in Twilight Zone mode. My Outlook folders are the default Outlook folders. They do not contain all the folders I created in my normal Outlook account.
When I shut down, restart and get a normal multi-colored view of things, I open Outlook, and voila, my normal account is back. However, now I cannot access those emails that are in the Twilight Zone. They are over there on the "other side." I cannot intentionally go find them. I don't know how to get there. I will see them the next time the black icons show up, indicating that I am back in the Twilight Zone.
As I said earlier, this was an occasional occurrence that was annoying, but @home technicians were unable to help so I learned to live with it -- rebooting whenever it happened. Now the rebooting is not helping. I fear I am perpetually trapped in the Twilight Zone.
I'm running Windows 98 on a Compaq Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM if that helps. I have plenty of memory left, by the way.
Any thoughts from anyone? Have you heard of such a thing?