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Greyling
Greyling

Apr-7-2004 01:53

Silly question pertaining to the pop-up messages: How do you make it stop??

I've recieved a message and replied to it as well, but it keeps popping up. I've tried deleting it, closing it, turning the pop-up filter on and back off. I've even tried logging out and and in again, but it's still there. It's getting just a little bit frustrating that it keeps popping up with each step I make during a case.

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Greyling
Greyling

May-11-2004 08:06

Well, I'm still having tremendous problems with the pop-up messages. If I receive more than 2 or 3, it's almost always certain that one of them turns into a Spyce error message.

So far I've been able to rescue them by logging off for 10-15 minutes and then when logging back on the message would still be there but now readable.

Now something has changed so that the Spyce error no longer keeps popping back up with every step I make, and somehow the message no longer stays so I can read it when I log back on after a little while which means that I don't know who is waiting for a reply??

I seem to be the only one in my agency who has this problem, and it could be either my browser or the settings that are causing the problem, but I don't know. Any advice would be much appreciated :)

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-11-2004 09:49

Hi greyling,

I haven't seen this problem myself, but I can guess what is causing it.

1 suggestion is to not use the back button on your browser so much. If a popup appears on one page, then you follow a link from that page, and then click the back button, some browsers will attempt to reopen the popup. If you do that, and you don't have any messages in your queue you may end up with a spyce error. Not a big deal, but annoying and potentially confusing.

Another thing you can try is to set your browser to reload pages on every visit. In IE, the way you do that is:

Tools Menu >> Internet Options >>
Under the "Temporary Internet Files" subheading, click the "Settings..." button >>
Under "Check for newer versions of stored pages", click "Every visit to page" radio button >>
Click "OK"

The drawback to doing that is, if you are on a slow internet connection, you'll notice a delay when loading pages. If you are on a dialup, I would suggest setting iot back to "Automatically" when you are not playing Sleuth.

Let me know if that doesn't help.


Greyling
Greyling

May-11-2004 09:58

Thanks. Since I'm not on a dialup, I'll try your suggestion to reload pages on every visit.

It's not caused by the back button despite both you, Sirgarr and Fujoubou suggesting this ;) - it frequently happens when clicking a link as well. However, I often have to refresh pages to get any new info there might be on them, because they're still on the previous information when I click them - so the reload option might just turn out to do the trick :)

Elly Ednes
Elly Ednes

May-11-2004 17:38

My first post, so I'm glad it can be a helpful one. What you need to do here is go into your control panel---> Administrative tools----> Services---> find Messenger on the services list. Go into the properties and disable messenger as well as stopping it from loading on startup. That will cure many of your pop-up woes. Also AdAware has done a long-needed update lately, do a Google for the free program and run it on your system to search for spyware.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-11-2004 17:46

Elly,

She's refering to in-game popups. Not those annoying xp system message people use to spam. That is good advice though. I'm surprised how many people out there don't turn those things off.

Elly Ednes
Elly Ednes

May-11-2004 18:06

Oh, I see. I haven't run into that. Maybe a cookie problem? Best of luck.

Greyling
Greyling

May-14-2004 04:01

Just wanted to say thank you and let you know that it worked :)
Well, "Every visit to page" did make everything slower, but it turned out I had it set at "Never", and so switching to "Automatically" did the trick too :)

Greyling
Greyling

May-14-2004 04:02

Oh, and thanks for your suggestions and kind words Elly :)

Ellie Etnes
Ellie Etnes

May-14-2004 15:42

No problem at all Greyling. Glad it got sorted out. This is just too delicious a game for words. Off to try a Really Hard case, wish me luck!

Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans

May-14-2004 23:24

Er? What in-game popups? I have unwanted pop-ups disabled on Opera. What am I missing?

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