Weird, weird, weird.

[doire]

Firefox can't connect. The wireless adaptor icon shows that there is no connection. Viewing the available wireless connections shows the main one is disconnected. It seems I can't connect to any of the others.

But IE work. I download Chrome and it works. I can connect the VPN to work although it doesn't put up the connected icon in the system tray and doesn't give the connect message. I can't get its status in Windows but a DOS command reports it's running. I have to go to DOS to disconnect as there is no way to disconnect in windows since it's apparently not connected.

I try Firefox again and get a page not found error and now Chrome can't connect.

And now the screen grabs don't seem to work any more!

There's a surprise, my obscure email client can connect. I can ping Google. I can ftp.

So
possibility 1 XP has got it's knickers in a twist and all will be all right after a restart.
possibility 2 I haz something nasty.
possibility 3 Recent IE upgrade has stomped on my wireless set up.


Who needs a connection?

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

sub-pixel anti-aliasing optimisation

Dear god. And where does this beast lurk so I can turn it off if I have to? (In fact maybe that's what's wrong with this system, that i thought was simply my monitor...?)

[doire]

Open Internet explorer
Tools
Options
Advanced tab
Down to the multimedia section (about halfway down)
and un-tick "Always use Clear Type for HTML"
Okay

It takes effect after you restart.

Some sources suggested that it affected MS Office too, but mine seemed okay - it might have been too old to use clear type.
MS do provide a tuner which may be worth a go. I was just so glad to have found out what had happened that I turned it right off.

It seems wrong to hope that you do have this problems; Let me phrase it as I hope you've now got a solution.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh dear dear dear. No, it's on and staying on, because they're right-- it does improve visibility with my LED screen, incredibly so. The lack of it in Firefox is why I can't bear to use Firefox-- thin pale pixellated fonts that strain my eyes. Oh well. Nice if it had been that. And I don't get coloured stripes so I'm OK that way.