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I don’t particularly have a problem with text size on websites, but I deplore the new fad of making text a medium gray against a white background! I even have a client who has their footer in medium gray text against a light gray background. What a nightmare!

I just looked and found a Firefox plugin that’s supposed to turn gray text into black, but I don’t know how well it works yet.

Thanks, Bruce. W32Tme was, in fact, stopped. I started the service but that doesn’t seem to help. I don’t find a Windows Time service listed though. Any other suggestions?

Update – I just got blocked from Google in Firefox. Restarting Firefox in Safe Mode didn’t help, so it must not be Firefox plugins.

Opening Internet Explorer doesn’t help – I’m blocked there. too. So this must be a Windows problem, not a Firefox problem.

Disabling Norton 360 doesn’t change anything, and I have no other virus or malware applications running.

Can it be my ISP or my router? I work on my laptop out of two offices, and this only seems (I think) to happen at one location.

I’m now using Firefox 15 and am seeing the same problem. At the moment, I’m getting blocekd from Pinterest, but can access Facebook and Twitter just fine. If I switch the rendering engine within Firefox to IE I see the same thing. But if I open the actual IE browser (on the same computer), I can get to Pinterest just fine.

Looks like a Firefox-specific problem, doesn’t it? When this ends up blocking me from Facebook, Twitter, and sometimes Google, that hampers me substantially as I’m an SEO and need frequent access to all of those, though to Pinterest not quite as much.

FWIW, I’ve run a number of malware scans and verified my date & time are correct — all without any improvement.

Any other suggestions?

Well this is now even more absurd. Accessing Google on Firtefox 14 now reports “This Connection Is Untrusted”. My date & time are fine. I’m malware-free. Little or nothing else running. Aarrgghh!

Thanks for all the feedback. What a wonderful resource this forum and all of you are. I’ve decided to try LastPass and am happy with it so far.

Which of these applications can also fill in a password when required inside Quickbooks to download bank or credit card information? Or do they ojnly work inside a browser?

RobertPri — I’ve been using a similar system PasswordPro from PC Magazine back in the early 90s. Only runs in XP mode now. But having to manually look up the username and password every time one is needed is a pain. Looks like many of these applications automatically fill them in for you. That’s a big advantage IMO.

In IE, I get a warning about Twitter that the name on the certificate doesn’t match the name of the site. Why would that change? Or does this indicate Twitter’s being hacked?

The supposed solution to this problem is to delete a file called sessions.json. I have done that, and the problem continues. I have done it again, just to be sure, and again it didn’t help.

I still get multiple (2-7) copies of the Thunderbird.exe file running according to Task Manager. Tbirs starts acting funny and/or hanging when that happens, so I need to close them all and re-start Thunderbird. And it doesn’t take a week or two before it starts happening again. As far as I can tell, it happens again ass soon as I run Tbird a few times.

Does anyone have the real solution to this problem?

Thanks! I’ll BET that’s exactly what was happening. It looked like nothing was happening so I closed the dialog. It looked for all the world as though the process had hung.

This is great to know … thanks again!
Bill

Thanks, Paul. I found that when I copy a folder, only the folder copied, but not its contents. It seems I was able to open the folder and copy the individual files into the empty folder on the target drive. Took a bit of trial and error to get that working. I used Total Commander for this. (Tried in Windows Explorer too, and they seemed to work identically.)

Thanks, Clint., Yes, I always have Windows set that way.

Thanks, Paul,

I can find the folders alright … there’s a folder in the root called WindowsImageBackup. It contains a single folder with the name of my computer, and that folder contains three folders plus a MediaID file.

Everything tells me that the WindowsImageBackup folder is only 16 bytes,. and I know it’s lots (LOTS!) bigger than that.

Yet when I try to copy that folder to another USB drive, it “copies” instantaneously. Clearly the actual drive image hasn’t been copied. Windows is playing some tricks to keep people from messing up their drive image. When I look into those suibdirectories on the original drive, I see plenty of files, amounting to about 33 GB, but after copying, the target drive sub-folders don’t contain those files.

The question is how do I ACTUALLY COPY this stuff?

Bill,

Have you set your laptop to turn off the laptop screen?
Most laptops will allow this via function keys on my Dell it’s FN + F1 YMMV.
:cheers:

Thanks! On my ThinkPad, it’s Fn + F7. However, it hasn’t changed the behavior at all. (Nice suggestion, though!)