This site is geared towards people who are experts at computer stuff, right? So why in the heck does this problem that I’m about to address and that I’ve asked about before at least once and maybe more times just continue unresolved. I know that I’ve had other users who chimed in and told me that this happens to them too, so I know it’s not just some issue with my hardware or my Windows XP operating system or my internet connection with Time Warner Cable. It probably isn’t the settings in my IE8 or in my Security Essentials which is the only anti-virus program that I’ve had on this machine since moments after I did a full clean install and start over of Win XP. I even bought the max ram for this PC and then had someone on this site or over at Windows Answer’s teach me how to have the system recognize it and use it. It does now!
So, when I click on this link in the Your Alerts From TechRepublic email in my Outlook 2003 Inbox and on many other links, why does it fail? I clicked on:
–I have experienced the same, however,
–http://ct.techrepublic.com/clicks?t=1116752135-59faec9f8bde8ccccdbcffefa2c0be12-bf&brand=TECHREPUBLIC&s=5
–Posted by SmartAceW0LF | 01/19/2012 @ 07:42 AM (PST)
and then all too often I see this page at https://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-366594-3560884?alertspromo=100901&tag=nl.rCOMBINED saying “We???re sorry, but the page you requested could not be found.
Try searching for the page you???re looking for: …..”.
It has me logged in since I see that Welcome xxxxxxxxx with my user name on it. So if I’m logged in why doesn’t it find that page that it sent me the link to in an email? If I hover My Account in the upper right and click My Stuff, it goes to My Stuff. Then I need to look back at the notification email and read the various lines and try to figure out what was said and by who and where did they say it in answer to which question of mine. It’s all so aggravating and I go thru this time after time.
And a 2nd annoying thing on this site that happens all the time to me is that it won’t let me edit a Discussion Title or Question box and add any characters to at least fill in the box if I want to add something. I type and it does nothing even if some space seems to remain for another 8 or 10 characters. If I hilite a bunch of text that’s already in the box and then I right click and Cut, it removes that text and now it is happy for me to type something new into that same amount of space but no more. Frustrating!
So I’ve got 2 pretty serious things that should be addressed so that users can use this site.