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Thanks — but I have XP Media Edition version 2002 Service Pack 2. The options in the Properties dialog are different. There is a Sharing tab, not a Sharing and Security tab. The dialog tells me that that I can drag the folder to the Shared Documents folder to share files, but access is denied to drag it to that folder either on the same drive or on the C: drive.

This is vexing. This is the kind of discord between what is offered and what actually works that makes people hate Windows.

The dialog box also has a checkbox to share the files “on the network and with other uses of this computer”, and I have that option set, but Windows apparently still thinks “this computer” is the old one, and I don’t have a network here on vacation to try copying to another computer.

What if I renamed the present computer same as the old one? Will that change the unique ID to the right one?

Just to show that I’m not all negative, I’ll say a nice thing now — about Woody’s Lounge. It responds quickly here on dial-up where I am on vacation — nice smooth display but no graphics fluff to extend download time. Well, except that little lizard who pops up, but he’s fun!

Thanks, OK, it’s been a learning process. that will speed things up somewhat.

Another thing I discovered for myself is that if I select all, or a part of the document containing more than one field, all of the selected fields will be updated when I type F9.

I still regard it as rather bizarre to require updating fields. What is the reason for this? What You See is not What You Get. until you press the magic key combination.

And where is the information that updating is needed? I’d think that a warning message should appear when saving the file or attempting to use a hyperlink. Then if What You See isn’t What You Get, at least you know how to get it!

I know it should take 100 MHz SAM– the question is how to make it recognize them, as I can find no jumpers and don’t have the manual. The computer won’t boot with the 100 MHz RAM, so the setting can’t be in the BIOS, it pretty much has to be in hardware.

I know it should take 100 MHz SAM– the question is how to make it recognize them, as I can find no jumpers and don’t have the manual. The computer won’t boot with the 100 MHz RAM, so the setting can’t be in the BIOS, it pretty much has to be in hardware.

OK, I found the “LP record tick” sound that so annoys me. I had been to both of the locations you gave, but didn’t find what I needed till I looked again. The tick is a system sound for “Start Navigation” listed under Windows Explorer. There are no sounds listed under Internet Explorer. I never heard the sound in Windows Explorer because I use the classic view in which Windows Explorer does not display as Web pages. Microsoft created a confusing situation in which the sounds may not play in the application under which they are listed, while they do play in another application, and the commonality of those applications is not apparent to the user.

I do want to disable all other system sounds except those which give me a warning about something important that I wouldn’t otherwise know. (I do know that I clicked the mouse, thank you very much.)

It would be nice to have a warning sound for — as an example — “you have run out of disk space.” I have had this happen, and the computer starts acting weird, and I close one program after another, and then when I’ve closed the last one on the desktop, underneath them all I find the message box alerting me to the cause of the problem. I should think that at least, this warning ought to take “always on top” precedence. And be accompanied by a warning sound. That sound might be a voice saying “out of disk space!”

I don’t want to disable “play sounds in Web pages,” at least not by default, because the sounds are part of what the Web page creators intended, and may contain content I need to hear in order to understand the pages, and besides, I have a broadband connection so there is no twiddling my thumbs while the sounds download.

Yes! You got it! I am using Eudora 5.1, and the same problem still occurs. I deselected the Microsoft viewer, and now the text size setting in IE sticks.

There’s a tradeoff. The Microsoft viewer produces a better display than the Eudora one, not only in terms of the way HTML mail displays on the screen, but also that Eudora can not display or compose in Oriental character sets using its native viewer. With the Microsoft viewer, it can display them, though messages can not be composed in them — I have to been using Yahoo mail under IE, with Microsoft’s Traditional Chinese Input Method Editor, when I need to do that. I might have deduced that IE and Eudora were sharing settings by the fact that Oriental characters would display properly in Eudora only if I had previously selected for them in IE.

I don’t really think this behavior is “by design” — there is no advantage whatever for the user, under any circumstances, for the “Back” button not to do what it purports to do. I think this behavior reflects all too typical programmer blindness — programmers looking at the code rather than at the user’s (reported as erroneous spelling) experience. Locating to a “line number” just doesn’t cut it, because Web pages don’t consist of lines, they consist of a two-dimensional plane, which contains various items at different locations. Apparently, the developers of IE did not consider that Web pages might be in some cases much wider than the computer screen. The “Back” button should go back to the same X-Y coordinates. Now, if the page has been refreshed since the previous viewing, there is a possibility that different content may be at this location. Let me propose an appropriate behavior for that situation: if the same code does not underlie the content there as before, IE should alert the user, and offer the option to search for that content..

This functionality would require the “Back” function to be aware of the content of the page as displayed on the user’s screen, and not only of the underlying code. Howeve,r (not reported as erroneous spelling) browsers (reported as erroneous spelling, and so is “Woody’s”!!!) operate on the client side, so that should be easy enough to implement. If the “Back” function did not find the same code underlying the content at the location, then it might alert the user and offer to search for that code.

I didn’t report my “Back” problem directly to Microsoft previously, but I did this time. Granted, it is usually good practice to keep a Web page narrower than screen width, but in the case of a map or other graphic which must be displayed larger than the screen to have sufficient detail, then the approach I used — having a small version for reference, with links into the large version — is the best that can be done. I could have used a popup, but why should I have to?

DaveA is checking what happens when clicking on the small map neart he top of the page. Click instead in the links (red text) in the paragarphs below the map. Then when those take you to the right hand columns (C and D) of the large map, click the “Back” button and you will see that IE fails to scroll horizontally to take you back to the left side of the page where the text is. Unless your copy of IE is somehow different from mine…

I am the Webmaster in question!

In reply to Leif: no, autocompletion is not the issue here. Autoselection is the problem — that the cursor selects an entire word instead of only the characters over which I have dragged it. This is questionably useful in text but only makes for difficulties when editing HTML code, where a word of text and a tag, or two tags, may not be separated by a space. In Yahoo mail, I can edit the HTML code inside the IE window instead of by bringing up Notepage as IE usually does — and that’s how the problem occurs.

In reply to Leif, the MPREXE.EXE warning came up once when I went to save a page but several times when I went to open a page (probably once for the page and once for each of several embedded graphics).

I don’t know what it is checking for; the graphics contain no links to check. I am of course logged onto Windows so I can use the LAN and WAN.

Thanks for the advice. The problem has gone away at least for now. I opened up Norton Internet Security and set Internet access by FrontPage always to Permit All.

I am still getting multiple requests to allow an application called MPREXE.EXE to “access the Internet” when I open or save FrontPage files that are located on my own machine.

Well, look on the bright side. The broadband Internet Access is really nice for checking into Woody’s Lounge!

I had similar problems earlier when using Zonealarm, but they were intermittent. Also, ZoneAlarm allowed me to make the distinction between local and WAN access for each application; I can’t see how to do that under Norton Internet Security. The four options it offers are Permit All, Block All, Automatic (the previous setting for FrontPage which didn’t work), and Ask.

I changed the names by double right-clicking on them slowly in FrontPage Explorer and then typing in the changes. This conveniently changes all the references to a file. I had a dummy Default.htm file in the root directory of the web already, so I could also have an index.htm file. But I had prevsiouly never needed Default.htm files in subdirectories.

I supposed there may be some way to get FrontPage to default to the standard htm index.htm instead of wrenching everything to Default.htm, but I don’t know.

As to the problem with the imagemaps, I tried a couple more things. One was to change the setting for imagemaps in FrontPage Explorer | Tools | Web Settings | Advanced to “none” and to CERN” — “CERN” converted the imagemap block at the start of the file into “WebBot” entries in the tag for each image — but they still didn’t work. Then I imported the file from backup and link from an image worked the first time I tried it but then, zap, all the links disappeared on the next try.

I am using the Win98 version of Microsoft Personal Web Server (not the less capable version included iwth FrontPage ’98) and I wonder whether there might be settings in PWS that I should change.

I am glad I kept a backup of all the files in my web, or else I would have lost a great deal of work when my imagemaps vanished. I finally just restored the files to my ISP’s server directly from backup. The files in question are http://www.bikexprt.com/map/bwmap.htm and http://www.bikexprt.com/mapguide.htm.

I do notice that FrontPage ’98 has the ability to construct imagemaps in JPEG files, not only GIF files as with the USEMAP tag in HTML. But I am unfamiliar with the mechanics of all that. I think I might have to place cgi files on the ISP’s server. However, the links didn’t work even in the web on my own computer with the cgi-bin folder present.

By the way, these files also demonstrate a remaining bug in IE 6.0, even as fully updated: the “Back” command scrolls vertically but not horizontally. Try clicking on one of the links (in red) in the text, to go to a location near the right side of the *very large* illustration, and then click on “Back” and you will be taken to the right of the original location, and may be staring at an all-white screen.

What a mess! Now a new message: FrontPage is unable to read the configuration of the Microsoft Personal Web Server, and so it can’t load a Web. And this even after I shut down Zonalarm.

Well, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Now with the Windows Web server installed, FrontPage informs me that I can’t open any webs because I do not have a 32-bit TCP/IP stack and would I like it to help me install one. Since I am connected to the Web, I clearly do have a TCP/IP stack and since I’m running Windows 98, it must be 32-bit.
I did have some trouble connecting to the Web this weekend, which was resolved when I removed one of the *two* instances of TCP/IP -> Dial-Up Networking in the Network applet in Control panel. It may be that FrontPage could open webs with the two instances, but I couldn’t send or receive e-mail or access Web pages. Now it is the opposite.

I think my problems are representative of what is called “DLL Hell” — overwriting of DLLs by others with added capabilities, but which mess up some of the preexisting ones. I’m about ready to give up and reinstall everything from scratch. But then I could still end up having problems just as bad as I have now.

Does anyone have a better idea?

I tried deleting the FrontPage Web server and found that FrontPage would then no longer load Webs even from my own machine. I have now installed the Web server on the Windows 98 SE CD-ROM (also called Personal Web Server, but the interface is different and *a dialog box indicates that it no longer supports FTP*. I don’t know whether this means that it will not allow me to upload pages directly from FrontPage. I had been considering that, but I have been using WS_FTP to upload my pages, though, so probably no problem.