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I can’t say that I can help directly, but there have been some reports that IE will crash if the amount of disk space assigned to temporary internet files is too large.

Check Tools>Internet Options, then the Settings button under Temporary Internet Files and see how much disk space is allocated.

Reduce the allocated space and see if the problem resolves.

If you use Windows Explorer to look in “C:WINDOWSTemporary Internet Files” after having done your clean up, do you still see cookies, image files etc, etc?

If so, use Explorer to search for the ones that you don’t want and delete them.

There may also be a number of sub-directories under “C:WINDOWSTemporary Internet Files” that can be searched using Windows Explorer.

Phil,

http://www.freetune.com seems to be a restricted site – you need a username and password to enter it.

Hi, Gumdrop – a fascinating detective story!

The Index.dat file is a cache file created by Internet Explorer.

When you download a file, IE assigns the downloaded file a unique identification number and then searches the Index.dat file for that number. If the downloaded file’s ID number is found, IE knows that the contents of the file are stored locally on your computer’s hard disk and IE then uses that information instead of downloading it from the Internet. If the downloaded file is not found in Index.dat, the contents of the file are downloaded from the Internet and the Index.dat file is updated with the file’s ID number.

The Index.dat files are re-created each time Internet Explorer starts. Since IE is totally integrated with Windows 98 and ME, IE is started whenever Windows starts and so you cannot easily edit or delete the Index.dat files – they are open whenever Windows 98/ME is open, as you have found.

To remove embarrassing URL references, you would be better off directly removing the links from your disk – the next time Windows starts and Index.dat is re-created, the references to those links should be gone.

A bit of a mystery.

The following Theme .wav files make a type of ‘boing’:

Mystery Default Sound.wav
Space Question.wav
Underwater Default sound.wav

There may be others. But you say you have checked them all and none sound like the noise you are hearing.

Perhaps (just perhaps) someone is playing around with your machines when you are away from them. A bit unlikely I suppose since both the machine at home and at work have the same problem.

Alternatively, maybe it’s coming from the monitor when it wakes up after having been on stand-by. One of our machines has a 17″ Gateway monitor (EV700) and it makes a ‘swooshing’ noise when it wakes up. Perhaps other monitors make a ‘boing’??

BUT (having re-read for first post) you say that it only occurs with events in Outlook or Internet Explorer. GRRRR !!!

Patricia – I take it that you are saying that if you enter “Febr” and this hit Return, you get a fully formatted date such as “February 13, 2001”. Is that correct?

Hi John – Apologies for the humour (?) taking us off track.

Having read your example (F E B R 01) I now understand your problem better. My machines with Word 97 and 2000 in Australian English display the same problem that you describe.

If we enter “12 Feb” then the tool tip appears with the full date and pressing Enter then gives “12 February 2001” which is the normal format used in Australia and which caused my earlier comment that we had no problem. But I can’t get “February 12, 2001” which I now gather is the format that you want.

I’ve tried changing to US English through Regional Settings in the Control Panel but it made no difference. I’ve changed the Key Board language from US English 101 to US English International and Australian English – all to no avail.

I’ve searched the MS KnowledgeBase and nothing there.

I gone though the MS MVP site for tips and nothing there.

Perhaps it’s a characteristic of versions of Word sold outside the US.

Frustrating enough to make you

This is a duplicate post to Excel Sheet Tabs by the same User. I have locked this thread.

Further responses should be made to the thread titled Excel Sheet Tabs.

I don’t think that you can change the tab color for Excel alone.

You can change the color scheme for Windows which will change the tab color but it affects the color and appearance of all Windows applications, not just Excel.

If you want to check out these affects then go to Control Panel, click on Display and then select the Appearance Tab. Then select a “Scheme”. If you have never changed the Scheme then it is probably set to “Windows Standard”. Pick another “scheme” and see the affect.

If you don’t like any of the changes then go back to “Windows Standard”.

I’ve been using the Visio 2000 Bible by Mark H Walker (IDG Books). It’s comprehensive if not always totally clear. But it’s probably the best around.

The Amazon reference is here.

Perhaps it might be best, though, to run with Charlotte’s suggestion and check out Visio Help first before you outlay the money.

Geoff,

Well done. You spotted the deliberate mistake

(But we have to write for our audience and we can’t have spelling here of every colour/color and flavour/flavor, including those of our neighbours/neighbors because it would put us a bit off centre/center with the SSS)

I can’t help directly, other than to say that it works OK here in Australian English.

Perhaps it’s a plot by your neighbors down south

Marc,

A few other suggestions to augment Mary’s:

How is the monitor cable connection?: check that the connection between the monitor and the computer box is not loose. A loose connection can cause the screen to fade. Re-booting can give it a surge that will bring it back temporarily and then it will fade again.

Have you got a friend/colleague with whom you can temporarily swap monitors? This will tell you if the monitor has an internal fault.

Virus? Have you done a virus scan recently? Some viruses can create strange screen effects.

Let’s know how you go.

This is a long shot – but since you have recently moved to cable, have you configured Zonelarm to let the cable ‘heartbeat’ through?

Glad to help. Let’s know how it turns out.