Tell me about it! I had a pc in Sweden a few years back that if it hung and you had to switch it off to re-boot a good two minutes had to pass or you turned it on and got back to where it hung!
Not as good as turning the monitor upside down, though. Regards, Alastair. (ps: Gunnar, it must have been the good, clean air up there!!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucas Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Help program oddity > hehe, no doubt i know many, many weird things Alastair ;) > tho i have to admit, simply out of curiosity, to just typing your error msg into > google. > a couple of days ago i came across a winxp machine, that a soon as you logged > in, would rotate the user's desktop upside down. turns out to be an issue with > winxp and certain intel video drivers. > now *that* was weird! and not so easy to fix. i had a guy on the end of the > phone who resorted to turning the monitor upside down just so he could navigate > the mouse. lol > ah the wacky world of windows. > > have a great day > lucas > > > Alastair Burr wrote: > > Magic, Lucas! > > > > The KB article led to a corrective update (to a critical one) for Internet > > Explorer that, for some reason, seems to have avoided being offered to me > > automatically. > > > > I love it when people know such weird things - I take it you've had you're > > own experience? > > > > Many thanks & regards, > > Alastair. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lucas Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:10 PM > > Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Help program oddity > > > > > > > >>Alastair, there's a KB article you could try: > >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312456 > >> > >>Also this one sounds a bit weird but it may work: > >> > > > > http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?s=5e42ecf27bf82438675d051cdbe236be&showtopic=26833&pid=126458&st=15&#entry126458 > > > >>Regards > >>Lucas > >> > >> > >>Alastair Burr wrote: > >> > >>>When I click on the Help program certain parts of the system seem to > >>>want/need to connect to the Internet and then produce an "Internet > >>>Explorer Script Error" message, part of which is: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>mk:@MSITStore:C:\RBTI\RBG7\RBG7.chm::/rules2.htm > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>from Rules|Purpose of a Rule. > >>> > >>>The EEP commands do the same/similar thing. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Have I got something set-up incorrectly or is there something else > > > > wrong? > > > >>> > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>>Alastair. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>---------------------------------- > >>>A D B Burr, > >>>St. Albans, UK. > >>>---------------------------------- > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>---------------------------------- > >>> > >> > > > > >
