Auto-correct is just as bad as auto-updates as far as I'm concerned. It messes things up moar then Eye doo.

Another minor but irritating nuiscance. Firefox updated and now I can't change the bookmark order by drag-n-drop anymore. Also the sidebar is gone. Thoughts?

Hmm, I use Firefox as my primary browser and just checked. I don't see any problems here. I have my bookmarks sidebar and can drag/drop rearrange as normal.

Had to reinstall due to Firefox complained about my profile couldn't be found and simply didn't let me continue to the browser. Never set up a profile before so I don't know what that was. And no; still can't drag-n-drop the bookmark out on to the menu or rearrange the bookmarks. I have no idea what has happened

My "new" Samsung 970 EVO Pro 2TB M2.NVME boot drive is at last up-and-running sans issues . . . for the moment. <crosses fingers>

Yes, this is the same drive I wrote about having been installed some time ago. Only, after a day of running flawlessly, next morning the system wouldn't boot. The "old" NVME drive was reinstalled. I've used it ever since then.

I drummed up the enthusiasm for another attempt this morning.

Deleting much of my original post, I'll just say that the "new" boot drive is in place, working as it should. Which doesn't explain why it ceased functioning after one day last time.

If at any point something had to be plugged in, it was probably a dirty contact.

Something I noticed during yesterday's successful System Drive clone/swap. The "old" drive slots very easily into the M2 receptacle. There is no doubt it was a solid connection. While installing the "new" drive in that receptacle, it was more "finicky". It took a few attempts before I thought it firmly in place. It might be that during my long-ago failed clone/swap attempt, the "new" drive wasn't slotted quite as solidly as it ought to have been. Maybe this allowed it to function properly that first day, but somehow shifted just enough to break connection overnight? Against this, the "new" drive was securely locked in place by a screw at its far end. And the computer was not physically touched between when the drive would boot and when it wouldn't (other than to press the Off/On button). Still, it's a good an explanation as I can come up with at the moment.

Most interesting. Malwarebytes is all of a sudden blocking YouTube for containing . . . malware. I'm getting pop-ups from them constantly. Is this some sinister new plot on Googles end. Or a mistake on Malwarebytes' end? I trust Google less, but we shall see how it plays out. (Web searches are of no help, it's prolly too soon.)

ADDENDUM:
Malewarebytes is aware of the issue, which seems to be on their end. They are (obviously) working on a fix.

ADDENDUM 2:
At around 1140 the issue disappeared. YouTube again loads. No more pop-ups.

Since my ADSL service is being cancelled October 31st and my provider wanted to force me over to mobile, I've decided to go fiber. This means I'll go from 2MB/s to 100MB/s while paying less. I hope it's as good as it sounds

Seems like it is! The box has already been installed by my landlord so all that was needed was a cable from it to the computer, service was also already ordered. As I am forced to pay 4 bucks extra per month on my rent for that box they installed without me asking for it, I might as well use it.

STUPID WINDOOZZZZ!

Right, had to get it out. Wasted two and a half hours this morning trying to figure out why my Oblivion wouldn't start. Of course I was blaming the mods, OBSE, everything... Ticking them off one by one, removing plugins until I was left with NAKED Oblivion - and it still wouldn't start! That is, it starts, plays the Bethesda logos video, and then just hangs there. Or occasionally it manages to progress to the main menu and then hangs when you try to load a save - or even start a new game!

But when the naked Oblivion did the same, I finally had to concede that it had NOTHING to do with mods... Should have thought of that earlier... Like two and a half hours earlier!

A reboot fixed the problem.

There was no Windows update between yesterday and today, but I do have a suspect. I played Two Worlds II yesterday before bed, and that game has its own video handling built in - it was made before the standard DirectX or whatever came out. It did take a long time to start up yesterday, and the screen flickered a few times - I think the video card was changing some settings, and that must have confused Oblivion. But now I can run either game without issues. <giant sigh of relief>

Urgh, that's gotta be frustrating!
Glad you got it sorted though.

Had a brief moment of panic this morning, following a periodic PC interior cleaning. GPUz shows my GPU's PCIe 3.0 slot running at 1.01. Thankfully, YouTube came to the rescue, with a video showing that it's a standard power-saving feature used when the GPU isn't being taxed. GPUz has a built-in means to kick the slot into 3.0 for verification. Me being me, I didn't notice it, though it's beside the PCIe slot mode reading.

Planned tech obsolescence

Again a confusing youtube issue.

Some videos, seemingly random ones, simply refuse to load properly anymore. Even simple lyrics videos without anything moving won't work anymore while other videos still work fine. The page won't load without stuttering, I can't change video settings smoothly and a yellow bar keeps appearing and disappearing at the top of the browser window. It says a webpage is slowing things down and gives me two choices to fix the issue but nothing works and often I don't even have time to click on anything before the bar vanishes. This issue appeared this Monday and affected videos I could watch perfectly fine the day before. I haven't made any changes or updates to my computer. I don't have any problem here btw.

Service provider support is as always worth donkey and my regular tech guy is out of town at the moment. Anyone had this problem before? Could it be an issue with youtube itself?

Gosh no, Crow. Nothing like that going on here. Try using a hammer.

It's probably the site if it's only YouTube. Sometimes it'll be stuck buffering for a while, especially if it's a tab I've had open a long time but not actually watched yet.

Have you tried running YouTube on a different browser to see if the same thing happens?

I've noticed that too but this has been tabs I'm immediately watching.


I tried Firefox on my backup PC now and same issue, at least with some vids. One that didn't work on my main works on this, but still issue with other vids.

I did try Chrome and it seems there's no issue there so I guess it is a Firefox thing. I am very reluctant on giving up on FF though as I love the extentions I can use...

I've been bombarded by "sign-in with Google" pop-ups lately. This bugs me to no end. Luckily, a search easily found an easy and totally legit solution. (It's a switchable Google privacy setting.)

Guys, I seriously need help right now. Chrome has stopped working altogether for me, it just won't start when I click on it so I uninstalled it. And Youtube in Firefox is worse now; I can't even visit the main page without getting the lag and the yellow bar saying it slows down my browser. My computer works fine otherwise, both with gaming and visiting other pages.

Also; when opening the task manager it shows five firefox related activities despite I only have one window open.

Edit: If you scroll down here, the poster details exactly my issue but I can't seem to find an actual solution. Further down he talks about other stuff using firefox, hence the multiple activities in the task manager, but I'm still unsure of what to do.

I don't know that Firefox showing five activities is, in and of itself, necessarily out of the norm. At the moment I've six tabs open. Task Manager shows 10 activities, plus more FF stuff in its "background task" display. For what it's worth, Firefox has been sluggish here for around an hour or two. Slow to open new tabs and fill graphics-heavy tabs. Don't own Chrome, so can't check that. I did some research and see that Google is abandoning Windows 7 Chrome support next year, 2023, April if memory serves. But you've some months before worrying about that, if there is even anything to worry about.

Have you some way to run a virus/malware check, just in case?

Does the computer continue to run games and other stuff "normally" and at speed?

FF here works fine opening tabs and visiting websites, just not youtube anymore. It started this Monday. The link edited in my other post describes my problem and it shows a solution, but I'm unsure still


Yes, everything works fine.


Edit: Using Chrome again and it seems to work for now. Questions: Is there a click sound addon for Chrome? and how do I get rid of the spell checking? Fixed that!