Can't load automated processes on websites

[Slickster 0]

Basically, my computer (PC running WinMe and using IE as a browser) can't load certain 'automatic' processes on many sites. You know how you can click on the Most Recent Topic in these forums and it takes you to the last post in the thread? My PC just brings up a white page. Ditto for trying to do things like

-credit card info processing

-online conversion of files to PDF formet

-'Your page is loading. Please wait 5 seconds.'

All those processes don't go anywhere; the stuff that's supposed to automatically load doesn't do that at all. Any idea what the story could be?

[Jobber of the Week 0]

First, if you can, get away from WinMe as soon as possible. It's one of the worst Windows OS systems. 98b is likely better. XP is definitely better.

 

In the meantime, use this to scan for malicious browser programs and this to scan for viruses.

 

Last of all, I can't really tell for sure what's wrong with your browser because all the tasks you listed use different methods. The "takes you to the last post in the thread" thing is accomplished by an "anchor" in HTML (you ever notice the # symbols at the end of a URL?) that scrolls down to that part of the page when loaded. I don't know anything about converting files to PDF format (huh?), but that's probably a function of Adobe Acrobat. And page redirects are done through an HTML forward.

 

Since all these situations are so different, you may wish to scrap IE and use FireFox instead. Even if you don't want to stop using IE forever, you should at least be reasonable "safe" from problems if you switch browsers until you can get around to a system wipe. I reccomend the system wipe because if you're encountering any kind of flaws while dealing with credit card information, that's a BAD thing.