My Expression Web had been working just fine. Then today it kept freezing and would have to be closed. Sometimes I got the message it encountered a problem and had to close. I used a neat utility, FPCleaner, but that didn't seem to help.
So what's going on? I am in the middle of converting my website using a new new template and DWT. Until today I had no problems What's different today that I'm having this problem with EW?
Then I remembered, I had turned 'Fast Indexing' back on. Big mistake! So I turned it off and now everything is working just fine.
To turn 'Fast Indexing' off is easy, but you must be logged on as an Administrator.
1. Click on Start button, simply type “Services” (don't use the quotes) in Start Search box.
2. When the UAC (User Account Control) asks for permission click Continue.
3. Locate a service named 'Windows Search'. Double click on 'Windows Search' to open the Windows Search properties.
4. Click on Stop button to stop the indexing service immediately.
5. On the Startup Type dropdown box, select Disabled.
6. Click on OK button.
Sometimes a problem solution is just too easy. However, sometimes it isn't. Glad this one was the 'easy' solution!
But I still don't know why Fast Indexing made EW freeze up and crash!
Martha
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Poor Little Tree
We have this little mimosa tree in our back yard.
I grew it from a seedling. Fate keeps trying to discourage it from surviving, but it just keeps chugging along. In April this year we had a hail storm. A bad hail storm. In fact, at the time of this writing, the roofers are on top of the house now removing the hail-damaged shingles and replacing them with new un-damaged shingles.
The hail really beat up this little tree. It had big gouges in the bark. Nature being the survivor that is, caused a new tiny bud to sprout in each of the gouges and before long the little tree was really showing new growth in a wonderful way.
Then we had another storm, this time it was wind. Wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour and this ferocious wind lasted all day! It blew and blew and blew the fence almost down. The wind didn't hurt the tree, however the consequences of the wind certainly did!
We share fences with our neighbors in this area. The folks behind us have dogs. Well everybody in this neighborhood has dogs, but the folks behind us have big dogs. One is a curious husky. He managed to get through the half blown down fence and explored our yard.
"A tree! What's this stuff on the tree? Yummy! "This curious pup pulled the bark off one whole side of the tree! I saw him do it from the kitchen window. My neighbors chose this time to be gone of course and the pup being a suspicious canine would not let us get close to him. So we spent the next three hours trying to coax him back to his yard and keeping him from eating the rest of the bark from the tree.
Eventually the neighbors returned home and so did the pup. A temporary fence fix kept him at home until more permanent repairs could be made. In the meantime we watched our little tree wondering if it would make it. Many of the new branches slowly turned yellow and died. Slowly several brown spots showed on the stark white left after the bark was 'liberated'. Is it a fungus? Or is it new bark? The yellowing leaves are not as many now and the tree even bloomed.
I have heard it is hard to kill a mimosa tree and I believe it. It looks like the tree will make it. Unless something else happens.
Martha
I grew it from a seedling. Fate keeps trying to discourage it from surviving, but it just keeps chugging along. In April this year we had a hail storm. A bad hail storm. In fact, at the time of this writing, the roofers are on top of the house now removing the hail-damaged shingles and replacing them with new un-damaged shingles.
The hail really beat up this little tree. It had big gouges in the bark. Nature being the survivor that is, caused a new tiny bud to sprout in each of the gouges and before long the little tree was really showing new growth in a wonderful way.
Then we had another storm, this time it was wind. Wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour and this ferocious wind lasted all day! It blew and blew and blew the fence almost down. The wind didn't hurt the tree, however the consequences of the wind certainly did!
We share fences with our neighbors in this area. The folks behind us have dogs. Well everybody in this neighborhood has dogs, but the folks behind us have big dogs. One is a curious husky. He managed to get through the half blown down fence and explored our yard.
"A tree! What's this stuff on the tree? Yummy! "This curious pup pulled the bark off one whole side of the tree! I saw him do it from the kitchen window. My neighbors chose this time to be gone of course and the pup being a suspicious canine would not let us get close to him. So we spent the next three hours trying to coax him back to his yard and keeping him from eating the rest of the bark from the tree.
Eventually the neighbors returned home and so did the pup. A temporary fence fix kept him at home until more permanent repairs could be made. In the meantime we watched our little tree wondering if it would make it. Many of the new branches slowly turned yellow and died. Slowly several brown spots showed on the stark white left after the bark was 'liberated'. Is it a fungus? Or is it new bark? The yellowing leaves are not as many now and the tree even bloomed.
I have heard it is hard to kill a mimosa tree and I believe it. It looks like the tree will make it. Unless something else happens.
Martha
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Amazed!
I never cease to be amazed at how stupid some people can be or at least how stupid their remarks can be.
I still take my local newspaper although I am not sure for how much longer. Every Saturday there is a section called 'Cheers and Jeers'. Folks write in to 'cheer' someone for a good deed or a happy thing and some write in to 'jeer' someone for a bad or stupid thing.
Today there were a few 'jeers' that fall into the 'where have you been hiding, under a rock?' category.
One numskull is jeering the airlines for 'price gouging'. I guess this turkey does't have a car or he would know gas is way expensive these days. Then again, maybe he hasn't figured out that airplanes need fuel to fly!
Then there was the guy who wants the car companies to quit running ads and ruining his TV programs. Guess he hasn't figured out those ads are what makes his viewing programs for free! Where has he been hiding? Ads have been on TV for over 50 years, has he just now noticed? (I will admit some of those ads are obnoxious, but most TV remotes do have a mute button!)
Now comes the corker, the guy who wants our elected officials to put a limit on how many babies people can have, just like China does. I wonder if he would like to have a Communist government like China does. We have 'over-population' according to him. I suspect he doesn't like kids.
Some days I just need to blow off some steam; this is one of those days.
Martha
I still take my local newspaper although I am not sure for how much longer. Every Saturday there is a section called 'Cheers and Jeers'. Folks write in to 'cheer' someone for a good deed or a happy thing and some write in to 'jeer' someone for a bad or stupid thing.
Today there were a few 'jeers' that fall into the 'where have you been hiding, under a rock?' category.
One numskull is jeering the airlines for 'price gouging'. I guess this turkey does't have a car or he would know gas is way expensive these days. Then again, maybe he hasn't figured out that airplanes need fuel to fly!
Then there was the guy who wants the car companies to quit running ads and ruining his TV programs. Guess he hasn't figured out those ads are what makes his viewing programs for free! Where has he been hiding? Ads have been on TV for over 50 years, has he just now noticed? (I will admit some of those ads are obnoxious, but most TV remotes do have a mute button!)
Now comes the corker, the guy who wants our elected officials to put a limit on how many babies people can have, just like China does. I wonder if he would like to have a Communist government like China does. We have 'over-population' according to him. I suspect he doesn't like kids.
Some days I just need to blow off some steam; this is one of those days.
Martha
Friday, July 04, 2008
Bottom Posting vs Top Posting in Email
As in many other computer-related stuff there are two sides to this subject.
The so-called 'right way' is bottom posting. However I suspect this is really more for private emails and not Group lists.
Either way, private or a list, I don't like bottom posts. One reason is because most folks don't bother to trim out all of the unnessary and irelevant junk, including a lot of these >>>>. Sometimes there is so much junk I have to scroll and scroll to get to the sender's respnse. I must confess, I don't always bother. Because I sometimes receive as many as 300 or more messages a day, I don't have a lot of time to go through a bunch of junk.
On lists like Yahoo Groups there is always a lot of other stuff appended to each message. This includes a number of links pertaining to each group's special interests and of course the group's home page. (There is also the way to unsubscribe which unfortunately some people never read and instead of unsubscribing themselves, they whine for someone else to do it for them.)
Some people do trim out the unnessary junk and while they are trimming, they remove everything. Unless this message comes through immediately after the first post or soon thereafter, often I have no idea what that trimmed post was about. This causes me to have to waste time searching for the relevant message. Again, I don't always bother.
One HUGE aggravation about bottom posting is when someone responds to a post just to say "Thank you" and I have to scroll through everything that went on before just to see "Thank you". I eventually stop reading messages this person posts and I suspect I am not alone.
I try to remain open minded about bottom posting, but sometimes it's hard. Some people are very responsible about how they trim and those posts are mostly easy for me to read. Other folks just can't seem to grasp the concept of trimming and I soon learn whose to read and whose to ignore.
Some email programs will automatically put replies on the bottom of a message. One such program is Eudora, which is why I don't use Eudora for lists.
There is another method of replying to list posts; this is replying inline. Some of these inline replies work very well and others are such a disaster that I give up trying to read them. Some email programs make this easier to manage, but my email (Outlook) is not one of them. I suspect some people use colored text to reply in line, but if the group/list is plain text, the colors don't come through.
I wonder, do you top post or bottom post?
Martha
The so-called 'right way' is bottom posting. However I suspect this is really more for private emails and not Group lists.
Either way, private or a list, I don't like bottom posts. One reason is because most folks don't bother to trim out all of the unnessary and irelevant junk, including a lot of these >>>>. Sometimes there is so much junk I have to scroll and scroll to get to the sender's respnse. I must confess, I don't always bother. Because I sometimes receive as many as 300 or more messages a day, I don't have a lot of time to go through a bunch of junk.
On lists like Yahoo Groups there is always a lot of other stuff appended to each message. This includes a number of links pertaining to each group's special interests and of course the group's home page. (There is also the way to unsubscribe which unfortunately some people never read and instead of unsubscribing themselves, they whine for someone else to do it for them.)
Some people do trim out the unnessary junk and while they are trimming, they remove everything. Unless this message comes through immediately after the first post or soon thereafter, often I have no idea what that trimmed post was about. This causes me to have to waste time searching for the relevant message. Again, I don't always bother.
One HUGE aggravation about bottom posting is when someone responds to a post just to say "Thank you" and I have to scroll through everything that went on before just to see "Thank you". I eventually stop reading messages this person posts and I suspect I am not alone.
I try to remain open minded about bottom posting, but sometimes it's hard. Some people are very responsible about how they trim and those posts are mostly easy for me to read. Other folks just can't seem to grasp the concept of trimming and I soon learn whose to read and whose to ignore.
Some email programs will automatically put replies on the bottom of a message. One such program is Eudora, which is why I don't use Eudora for lists.
There is another method of replying to list posts; this is replying inline. Some of these inline replies work very well and others are such a disaster that I give up trying to read them. Some email programs make this easier to manage, but my email (Outlook) is not one of them. I suspect some people use colored text to reply in line, but if the group/list is plain text, the colors don't come through.
I wonder, do you top post or bottom post?
Martha
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