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Is it just me and my cheap laptop, or does anyone else have this problem? I reckon that roughly 50% of the time that I try to navigate this site I will get a pop-up saying, "Internet explorer cannot open this site. Operation aborted", often in triplicate. After having got rid of the pop-ups I find that everything is OK and I get to the page selected without further action. This is most frustrating, not to say time-consuming. Any advice from the more literate PC users out there?
22:39 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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20SilkCut
Change to Firefox...it gets rid of all the annoying pop-ups!
22:40 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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snags
Go to your browser preferences and turn on 'block pop up windows'...
22:41 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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snags
Or as silky says, change to Firefox... which is faster and more stable imo...
22:42 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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mike11111
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Thanks for your help. Have installed Firefox and it seems to work. Didn't realise it was free!
23:15 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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20SilkCut
Cool....glad you got Firefox installed - i'd never change back to IE now...
23:38 Sun 21st Mar 2010
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mike11111
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So am I. As has been said, faster than IE and not a single pop-up all day. Thanks again.
15:29 Mon 22nd Mar 2010

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