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Hello out there... Will sure appreciate your help! Apologize for the length but wanted you to know how I have tried to troubleshoot so far. I am desperate to help my 85 yr old mother! For 3 full years, she has had no problem accessing live streaming video from the National Zoo pandacam. She has watched the youngest panda Tai since his birth until now and checks 3-4 times a day to see what he's up to. For the last 2-3 days, has been unable to get video. The screen says "Ready" so she clicks on the play button and nothing happens. [actually, you don't normally have to click on anything

BuddyHolly, be careful out there when you urge people to go ahead with the download. Might want to look at this: http://www.computerworld.com:80/action/art...;intsrc=hm_list Also just noticed that my gold shield notifying me of the SP3 download has disappeared. nancy

Liz -- I haven't been on the board in a while but remember your agreeing with me quite a while back about not being ready for IE7. Seems like long ago when I finally jumped into IE7 and think it's just great. I always loved the tabs with Firefox and now I can have them on IE too. There's really nothing to dislike. nancy

Sure appreciate the discussion. When I saw SP3 show up ready to download, I assumed it was okay but knew to check this wonderful board first. I also read in an article today that SP3 was not going out until sometime in June to the people who have their computers set to automatically download updates . After reading the comments here, I'll wait until June for sure. Thanks so much! nancy

Thanks, Marty -- good to hear from you and appreciate the input!

I didn't think so -- I didn't intend to enable anything. I just checked and I do NOT have it enabled, nor SD helper. Was just planning to use for scans. I have to be away from computer again but will check back later. Thanks! n

Will sure appreciate anyone's time. Computer: XP home ed -- Pentium D processor with plenty of power and plenty of memory. I've used Outlook Express probably since about 1993 on several different computers with not one problem over the years. In the last week, however, a couple of times, it has stopped functioning. The first time, all of a sudden the messages in my Sent and Deleted folders disappeared. I kept checking to make sure I wasn't dreaming, but they were gone. I closed the program and reopened [without restarting the computer] and all messages were there and everything was

Thanks for the help, the sharing, and, of course, the laughs! I'm updated! nancy

Thanks Hitest...thanks Garnmanma! I am ready to install....in spite of BAD BAD Shanenin! nancy

Bubba Bob and Barb -- Thanks so much! Appreciate your time! Sethook, you shouldn't answer like that to a wimp!!

Am still a wimp and am wondering if everyone is okay with the latest XP updates? Will appreciate your time! nancy

thanks, Mikex. I can just try that with spysweeper since it seems to be getting everything. Good idea!

Does anyone know what cookie is associated with a myyahoo page? Since the last webroot spysweeper update, the scans knock out everything I like to keep customized, including my myyahoo home page. I have tried to figure this out by the process of elimination, but I can't seem to do it. Sure would appreciate anyone's help on this. Thanks! nancy

Marty and Liz -- thank you both so much. Will try each idea. Appreciate your time so much, as always. Joe -- thanks for the smile! nancy

In trying to look at a segment via the This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC website, whether I try on IE or Firefox, it runs for 10 seconds and then hesitates [buffers, I guess]. If this were dial up, I would understand, but we have DSL which is pretty fast. Is there a configuration that will set video clips to totally download before playing? Sure will appreciate your time and assistance! nancy

Appreciate JSKY and additional info from Terrorist -- After posting here, I read something about how sites can actually send malicious software to your computer as you view a video. I guess a video would be considered a download, so maybe I'd better play it safe. What The Terrorist said concerns me -- divorce or no divorce!! This was just a speech I wanted to wanted to watch for inspiration and enjoyment -- not something I have to see. Thanks again. I really do appreciate your time. Thanks to you all, I continue to learn. nancy

JSKY -- This is what it had on the red x on the google search for the site: "Misleading business practices [Reported]" Do you think that this is more like what you were talking about and as long as I just view the speech, I'll be okay? Thanks! nancy

JSKY -- Great! I'll do this. Thanks so very much!!!

Sure would appreciate anyone's time. I use SiteAdvisor [the free McAfee program that tests sites for safety] and love it. However, last night when I searched for and found a speech I wanted to hear, I started viewing it via Real Player and all of a sudden noticed that the siteadvisor indicator was RED! I got out of the site but want to ask if anyone knows what could be wrong with my viewing this speech. It is only a speech of a political strategist that I love and enjoy listening to -- one I hear on CNN, ABC,and NPR. The site itself is blinkx.com. If anyone thinks it is okay for me to vie

Hey....I decided to come back and check post again. Appreciate the extra input. I'm going to take the cd over for sure. I just wanted to make sure y'all thought it was the same as the initial SP2 download I would get now [before updates]. Thanks again!

Thanks, Guys -- I sure appreciate your time. Was hoping y'all would be around! nancy

I have a friend who has an old XP that still has SP1 on it. I have the original disc I ordered from Microsoft way back when SP2 first came out and was wondering if I could use that to save her some time or would it be better for her to download it since so much time has passed? I didn't know if they might have changed the download to include some of the fixes....since it seems as though we've had hundreds! Sure would appreciate your time. nancy

When I saw this in the tech news today, I decided to see if it had been addressed on this board. After not seeing anything, I've decided I should post this link because it does mention a work around. Since I don't have IE7, I haven't had the problem, but am sharing in case it helps anyone else. I apologize if this is very old news to the rest of you! nancy http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...;intsrc=hm_list