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Kathy
Posted on Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 1:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hi guys, The "back" button does not seem to be working.

By the way, I have decided that my missing-characters problem is due to the keyboard (although it is much worse here than anywhere else!).
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Lseltzer
Posted on Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 1:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
By "does not seem to be working" do you mean that you get Page Expired? I had been getting that but it stopped a day or two ago.
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Nan
Posted on Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 6:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
My BACK button hardly ever works when I open the message board! I have found this work-around though:

I click the ad banner at the top (or a hyperlink within a post) and wait for the link to open. Then, I click BACK to return to the message board, and the buttons work agian like magic!

This does not seem to happen in any other site.
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Kathy
Posted on Friday, November 2, 2001 - 12:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
By "does not seem to be working" I meant that nothing whatsoever happened when I clicked on it.

However, it is working again today.
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Enigmabomb
Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 1:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
What browser are you using?
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Enigmabomb
Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 1:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hmmm clicking on the banners to make the back button work....Dave.... Is this your doing >=)

-enigmabomb-
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Nan
Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 2:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Enigmabomb,

I have this problem when I'm using AOL (version 5). I have never had this problem using IE or Netscape.
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Enigmabomb
Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 9:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
When you have this problem try hitting the backspace key, See what happens and report back to me.

-enigmabomb-
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Nan
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 1:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Enigmabomb,

The backspace key works, but then the BACK button becomes unavailable (greyed out). What is going on?
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Lseltzer
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 3:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The back button and backspace keys are the same thing. You haven't proved anything. If the back button is grayed out then you have no back pages in the browser history.
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Nan
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 3:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Why would the backspace key work when the back button does not?
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Enigmabomb
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 4:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
I proved something...Just not sure what. It seems like this may be a new window the browser is opening? Check to see if their are windows under it. Also, Try clicking the little arrow on the back button, that will tell you all the pages you have been to while browsing in the past few minutes.

-enigmabomb-
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Lseltzer
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2001 - 7:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
I don't think AOL5 has the history list on the back and forward buttons. Not positive, but pretty sure.

Do any of the other buttons work?
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Nan
Posted on Monday, November 5, 2001 - 7:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Everything else seems to work. The back button also works some of the time. I can live with it.

I really hate aol, but it works for what I need and with my computer (WindowsNT-SOE environment)and does not interfere with anything else I have installed. Also, my computer-cranky husband can use it without turning over hardly any chairs.
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Kathy
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 12:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
My back button was out again today (on AOL), but I used Nan's workaround and it's back. Does anyone understand why this works? Enigmabomb?
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Enigmabomb
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 5:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
This is rather perplexing. This is what I would like you to do. Next time this happens, It'd help if you could write down the past 2 websites you were on, anything running, anything odd happening and the like. Just some general observations. My first thought is that maybe ie, which runs the aol browser is corrupt. What version of AOL is this? I have a stockpile of AOL CD's here at the house, I take them from the "Free CD's" things. If you need one to reinstall, you are welcome to one. MAC Or windows?

-enigmabomb-
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Melidere
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 9:01 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
i had this problem about a month ago. For some crazy reason my back button quit working. I don't use aol, so i don't know if it is a bug with aol or a purposeful corruption caused by some website i was visiting.

Then it just mysteriously stopped not working.
This went on intermittently for days, but now i haven't had the problem for a month.

i didn't have time to test out the theory, but at the time i was visiting ebay a lot. Ebay seems to load all those pics into cache...and my temp folders got really full.

i haven't been visiting ebay, and i suspect my normal cache cleaning settings have cleaned out cache...and the problem is gone.

that's my theory.
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Kathy
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 10:22 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Hmm. Not sure what previous sites I had been on. I have a PC with Windows 98 and AOL 6.0. Should I install 7.0? I have a disk, but have been reluctant to mess with something that seems to work fine most of the time. The computer is pretty full up with stuff and gets really slow if it hasn't been rebooted for a couple of days.
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Villagenative
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 10:59 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
I use AOL as a euphemism for h-e-double hockey sticks for a reason. It's a nightmare, and the install files will trash whatever wherever whenever they want. Blech!
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Nan
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 12:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Kathy,

My husband discovered that you can also use the Backspace key as a BACK button if you don't feel like clicking on a link and clicking back.
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Melidere
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2002 - 8:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
kathy, have you been using the maintenance program under accessories in windows? When your hard drive starts to get really full this becomes mission critical.

windows uses space on the hard drive as a swap file (excuse my ignorance...that's how i understand it) so if it doesn't have it it gets reallllly slow.

i had one almost come to a grinding halt once.

you should have at least double your ram in free space on your hard drive, and if that's all you have then you have to maintenance it a lot.

it does sound like something is getting full up.

in ie...under tools and internet options...you can shorten the number of days a page stays in history. maybe this would help. Then, under temporary internet files, settings...you can control how much of your hard drive is devoted to saving history. maybe that is set really low.

i'm not a computer expert (heh...but i play one on tv? just kidding) but this interests me since i just had the problem myself. i'm curious to know what fixes your problem.

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