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debugging is driving me buggy.

Mar 25, 2007 12:10PM PDT

I hope I'm in the correct forum. Also I did not copy any of the debugging codes to pass on. And I hope I can find my way back to this spot to carry on a conversation. I'm new to putting up a subject for discussion. I have answered or commented some times on some subjects.
I use xp media center 2005 on an hp with AMD athlon 64 x 2, 2gb ram, 250 hard drive, NVIDIA 6150 Geforce graphic card and a dvd that has lot of bells and whistles. I am on DSL 3.0 with bellsouth/att and using IE7 sometimes but mostly we use MSN explorer. (I upgraded to IE7 from IE6.) I have hardly ever had a problem with debugging popping up in a dialog box before. I have owned several computers,have 4 now, and have owned computers since 1987. I am still a person who just kicks the tires and hops in the machine. I knew how to operate with DOS before windows. But i have hardly ever encountered debugging. Now I am encountering debugging very frequently. As far as I can recall it is mostly encountered on line.
It will pop up when I go into a site or out of a site. It will ask me if I want to debug or not. Sometimes I just click no and it goes about and does what I have selected. Others times it won't proceed. For example, I was trying to sign up for a forum on Quicken today and I had to register. After I filled the blanks and clicked submit, it came back with a debug question. I tried clicking every instance that was presented to me. Nothing succeeded. I also selected to debug and a box came up with lots of script in it. It asked me to break, continue, or ignore(ignore was not highlighted like the other two choices). No matter what I select, everything remains static. Nothing happens. This has happened many times in the last few weeks. Sometimes the debug dialog box will popup and I can't proceed in or out of a site. Then the only way I can continue is to click the home page icon and it will go back to the home page. Then I can continue with my web stuff but not back to that site. I have tried to comprehend info from the m/s site and I did various searches on google but I just don't understand it all. I apologize for not having the debug codes but there so many of them at times that I failed to copy them or save the screens. I have written a lot so I will close and maybe someone can point me in a proper direction. Usually I can figure most stuff out but this time I am worn to a frazzle, (if frazzle is still a word.

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Some things to try....
Mar 25, 2007 1:21PM PDT

Go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Advanced tab > Place a check mark beside
'Disable script debugging (Internet Explorer)" and
'Disable script debugging (Other)".

Also, remove the checkmark beside
"Display a notification about every script error".

It may be necessary to restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

Hope this helps.

Charlie

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I made the input you suggested.
Mar 26, 2007 12:33PM PDT

Hi Charlie,
Thanks for answering. I made the input as you suggested and restarted. There wasn't a check mark beside
"Display a notification about every script error".
Anyway, now I will wait and see if those "buggers" show up again.
I will let you know. I guess just come back to this spot and post a message again?
Thanks, Ronaldo

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(NT) Yes! just come back to this spot and post a message again
Mar 27, 2007 9:54AM PDT
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so far so good
Mar 28, 2007 12:10PM PDT

Hello Charlie,
So far so good with the debugging absence. For some reason I haven't been surfing as much, but what little I have done I haven't had one debugging incident.
Thanks for the advice. Ronaldo

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(NT) Post back if it starts acting up again.
Mar 28, 2007 2:13PM PDT
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prior advice
Mar 29, 2007 6:08AM PDT

Prior to asking the forum for the debugging advice, I had inquired for advice from a tech at a large computer retailer. I offered to pay for it but payment was refused. His answer was get firefox and forget IE. ha. So his advice makes me appreciate the forum a lot. There could be some validity to his advice but it wasn't helping me at the time. Should I look into firefox? I don't want the hassle of having two os's or browsers. One is enough for me. But I am curious.
I think I spend too much time on the computer already so why increase it by having too many contraptions to keep up with. Any input?

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His answer was get firefox and forget IE
Mar 29, 2007 8:06AM PDT

I myself tried FF but it kept interfering with IE6, even thought IE6 was set as the default Internet browser. And some sites, including some secure sites like some banking and billing sites require IE. And as far as I know, or at least at the time only IE could download and install MS and Window's updates. So I went back to IE6.

I also tried the Opera Internet browser and had much the same problems, plus it was slower. Again I went back to IE6.

I recently tried IE7 but that was very much haywire. Again I went back to IE6.

Many folks swear that Windows Operating Systems and browsers are the least secure. But I've read that the scale is actually tipped a bit in MS's favor. Plus, regardless what software and even hardware we use, like any other tool it has to be properly maintained and cared for.

Turns out that I'm much better off using what I am most knowledgeable about and comfortable with. It seems when something does everything I need it to do, I'm better of not 'fixing' it. In other words I figure, if it ain't broke, don't screw it up. Wink

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five years later!!!!!!
May 13, 2012 5:17AM PDT

Hi caktus, I went to your profile and sent you an e-mail. It might not get to you so I'm also replying/contacting you via this section. You can see you gave me this advice five long years ago. Well, the same solution/advice worked again. The same problem reared it's head again just this week on the same computer!!I had bookmarked the session. So I went to the bookmark, read it again and followed the advice and it worked again. Ha. Hope all is well with you. Waiting for W8 to get new computer. Have a couple of others but still like XP. Don't like vista or w7. Debating to get apple thing or not. got an asus transformer 201 with android. Like it a lot. Wife has ipad-I don"t cotton to it. Probably will stay with ms though for new box. Take care.