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Try adding these to your script before any output or other Response:

  Response.Expires = -1                   '// make sure page is always refreshed
  Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "No-cache" '// no really, don't cache this page

This is not sure-fire, but it helps. You’d think one or the other would do, but no… The problem is whether or not the browser is following instructions. IE seems to use the cache to often, while Netscape (IMHO) doesn’t use it enough.

HTH

I’ll start with the obvious: Can you see the Properties for the old My Documents folder? If so, what’s on the Security settings for the folder?

I just launched an older WinHelp (.hlp) file and Windows Explorer crashed and restarted. So I wouldn’t doubt that there’s a bug in the help. There were quite a few bugs left in WinHelp (winhlp32.exe) before MS moved on to HTMLHelp (hh.exe) and now the Help and Support Center.

If it’s the old style .hlp file, you may be out of luck. One of the big problems with the old WinHelp system was that you could not print more than a single topic if you wanted to. Later HTML based versions of help (like the one Bruce is refering to) allow you to follow the links like IE allows. This is an old problem, and there may be some utilities out there to print an entire help file. At one point, you could get a .hlp decomplier to convert the file back to something resembling the source, which was an RTF document that you could open and print in Word.

HTH

Did you mean your address book or email account? The first set of options under Tools > Email Accounts is to add or update address books. Then there’s another two options for Address Books, which is where the LDAP account would be.

For Address Books, there should be a MAPI address book like the Outlook address book. At one point, there were default LDAP settings for services like Bigfoot.com. It’s possible one of those is still there.

I’m using SP-2 now, but find is not much better. One thing that might account for it is the way Outlook works with Exchange: If you’re connected to an Exchange Server, everything seems to go through the server. Find is really slow then. Like you it took a few tries to see that the icon is animated while Find is running, and that results are not displayed until Find is stopped or finished.

I make sure I clear the option to search all text unless that’s what I really need. And when I’m at home connecting over DSL, I find it better to work Offline. If I connect to Exchange I have to wait for Outlook to re-download every message whenever it’s previewed or searched. Very slow, and that’s with a better than 786kbs DSL connection. The Find is much more responsive in Offline mode, but you do need to keep offline versions of all the folders (and getting folders offline has been a bit of a mystery to me).

Go to Tools > Email Accounts, select the View or change existing directories or address books option and click Next. What do you see? Is there anything listed with Type = LDAP? If you didn’t put it there, try removing that service.

Correction – I missed a setting on the Filter screen. It is ridiculously simple to create a filter on the IP address in the Received fields of the headers, although by default it’s looking for email addresses. You can do it through a wizard when you receive junk, or set them up manually in the Filters list.

No word yet on release date.

Whose version of Java are you running? We had some problems with machines that installed Sun’s JRE 1.40_01 as the default for Applets in IE. The behavior was not identical, but might be worth a look.

I was finally able to access the site using http://www.endpopups.com (without the “/index.cgi” – which now gives a permissions error). Early today I couldn’t get anywhere at the site. Download was very quick.

Golf in the Kingdom is a book by Michael Murphy about a fictional guru (Shivas Irons) who teaches life lessons to the author through golf (or golf lessons in life, depending on how you look at it). It was recommended as a great read even for non-golfers, and I enjoyed it very much.

I noticed Golf-in-Scotland wasn’t functioning. Pitty, that.

Jefferson,

For your case, we could just check to see if the result starts with “.” and prefix the zero:

  if (numFormatted.indexOf(".") == 0)
    numFormatted = "0" + numFormatted;

before the return.

I amazed that JavaScript lets you write whole functions inline and use them. But then I think Java is like that too. Looks like I might finally get to work in Java for my job, althought we thought that would happen a couple years back.

I did a quick Google search and came up with lots of serious number formatting scripts. I downloaded one that looks promising from http://www.mredkj.com/javascript/numberFormat.html%5B/url%5D. But I think we covered the basics.

HTH

You’ve pretty much nailed it. JavaScript isn’t very helpful with formattig, leaving you to roll your own.

A simple version for JavaScript might be like this:

function formatNumber(numFloat, n)
  {
  if (n < 1) return alert("number of places (n) must be greater than 0!");
  
  var s, t;
  var numFormatted = (s=new String(Math.round(numFloat*Math.pow(10,n))))
                                    .substr(0, t=(s.length-n)) + '.' + s.substr(t, n);
  return (numFormatted);
  }

Probably doesn’t work exactly like VB’s, but it’s a start. HTH

From what I know about XP, you’re best off using Group Policy to customize the UI for users. Open the XP Help Center and look at Customizing your computer > Configuring Windows using Policy. Hopefully someone more experienced will jump in with the exact settings.

HTH

We bought a refurbished Compaq laptop – the Armada I mentioned in another post – from a local company that went out of business and took the money from our service contract with it. So we’re going with IBM or Dell direct, both of which will probably be around for three or four years. And with the cost and likelihood of repairs on a laptop, we’ll be getting a service contract.

Thanks!