HELP!!! Everything Is Hanging

Mystic Fawn · #1 December 21st, 2001, 10:47 AM

Hi all,

I sure hope someone can help me with this.

Everything is hanging up. When I go to a webpage, it might go up to about 35% and then just hang there, or there will be written at the bottom....Connecting to site, then a bunch of numbers.

My ISP is also hanging, most times wont come all the way in.

When I click on my email, it just hoovers there and wont open.

Can somebody help pleeeease

Im surprised I made it here, but I will probably get thrown off in a sec

:-( *Mystic*

**Buzz** · #2 December 21st, 2001, 05:47 PM

Sounds like it's a problem with yoru ISP maybe...

Otherwise MUCh more info is needed. What Platform? What operating system? What web Browser? What email client?

Debbie Skura · #3 December 27th, 2001, 08:06 PM

Have you checked your system resources? Sometimes you have things running in the background that you aren't aware of. Email me and I'll see if I can help!!! I had a problem with this same thing and it was my system resources...

DebDebTheWebHead@aol.com

**Buzz** · #4 December 27th, 2001, 09:01 PM

The point of these message boards is to helps everyone. If a user were to be experiencing the same problems and came across this topic, frustration would ensue when answers were given through email.

Please help other users by posting replies here so everyone can see them. Share your experiences rather than keeping them private.

However, since Fawn has been nowhere to be seen, perhaps her cpu is so hung it's unusable anymore.

Mystic Fawn · #5 December 27th, 2001, 09:36 PM

Hi Buzz,

Thank for your reply.

Im using AOL 7.0 (Problem started in 6.0), with Windows 98, its my AOL
email, and I have I.E. 6.0.

I have Defraged, emptied all cache and Temp files. My resources
stay between 90% and 83%. AOL doesn't seem to know what the problem is either.

I cant think of any reason that everything would be hanging
up the way it is.

What did you mean when you said this?

since Fawn has been nowhere to be seen, perhaps her cpu is so hung it's unusable anymore.

lufbra · #6 December 27th, 2001, 10:08 PM

Dawn, I believe Buzz was implying that maybe you couldn't get on line, to post anymore here, but thankfully he was wrong!!

Dave.

**Buzz** · #7 December 27th, 2001, 11:44 PM

Yeah Fawn, I was joking because it had been a while since you first posted.

I'm not an AOL user (actually loathe AOL) but i believe there is a setting in the AOL browser that compresses all images in the proprietary AOl format. Is it at all possible this could be the 'hang'. if the browser is compressign images as a page loads that would account for the lag. It would also explain why AOL tech would not mention it.

Steven.Bentley · #8 December 28th, 2001, 11:17 PM

Not sure that the compression would hang the client, I belive it's server side lossy, but we can check it fairly easily, in the AOL Preferences screen (keyword: preferences) go to the WWW section and you can turn the compression off there.

I suspect the problem may be the connection number you're using, some of them are more reliable than others in my experience.

May also be worth finding out if there are any updated drivers for the modem you're using and installing those if possible.