Same here, Bolshi. Four error messages today. Stockwatch seems to hang before opening in dribs and drabs. Other MoneyAm non-streaming pages not affected and neither are streaming pages from other sites. I've posted the full error message but nobody was interested. It's been going on for some weeks now.

Skinny and cowshapedfish were having the same problem. I wonder if they have it sorted?

No - I'm still getting them but I don't use stockwatch. I seem to get it if I go off the BB to a chart or rns or similar. I did send Ian one of the reports.

Did he reply, Skinny?

tok,

I passed this onto George who posted this reply on the bugs thread, where the issue had originally been raised:

George(MoneyAM) - 25 Jul 2011 09:10 - 28 of 56
Hi All,

Just a note to let you know that the Java Update 26 did cause a problem when multiple applets were loaded (e.g. combinations of stockwatches and trades applets), and then some were closed. On closing one, it caused Java to crash and that killed the remaining applets. A workaround for the problem caused by this update was put in place on Friday afternoon and seems to be working well.

Thanks
George


I have flagged it back up to George.

In the meantime, you could try rolling back to an earlier version of Java as that is the piece of software that is reporting the error.

Ian

Only a thank you reply - a couple of weeks ago now.

Ian/George

Thanks for the reply and explanation, dated 25 July. It's obviously not yet fixed for me.

Being a bit of a thicko how do I go back to an earlier Java version, or is George still working on the problem?

TOK

Uninstall it and then install an older version from

http://www.oldapps.com/java.php

Sequestor,

I have not used Updata for about three years now.

I do remember loading it on a new machine and it failed due to one of those Windows permission checking jobbies. Sorry this is not only late but vague. (I lost a PC last week and have spent too many hours loading the new one).

TP

Good morning Techies. I am sending a jpeg image from my computer via a CD with a requirement that it is in 300 dpi resolution. How do I set or find out what the resolution I am using is, please?

One way is to view it in a photo editor package such as PaintShop or Photoshop.

In fact you can open it with MS Paint which comes with Windows and then do ctrl-E or click Image, Attributes at the top of the screen and it will tell you the resolution in dots per inch,

Has anyone used this site? I'm getting shockwave Flash crashes fairly often.

Thanks H

Soluto might be able to help you sort out a few PC frustrations and at the same time, optimise your PC's performance.

Dive into Soluto Beta from Soluto on Vimeo.

The Other Kevin

Also in the file explorer, right click on a picture file and view properties. Then click the Summary tab and click Advanced. That will tell you the dimensions in pixels, the resolution in dpi and the colour depth in bits.

TOK

If you need to resize some of your pictures, say for sending out with an e-mail, then try

IrfanView

It's a Free Download and quite easy to use.

Tip: For downsizing a picture I prefer to use the % tool

My wife has a Acer laptop that uses Vista and has 1.5gig memory,but as Vista takes up so much of the rsources i am looking at changing it to WinXP pro as i have a spare new copy laying around but if i install Winxp,so will i loose all the progs and setting that had been set up using Vista i dont want to loose everything but i also dont want to carry on using Vista.

If i can find a cheap version of Win7 i could wel be intersted in that option as well as i understand it that does not hog resources either.

Anyone done this before ???

You will lose evrything. You cannot go back to previous Windows like that. Each major version of Windows, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, win NT, Win Xp. Vista Windows 7 do thins in different ways. The big change was after Win 98 but all new version have big changes.

Windows usually has a feature built into the installer to 'upgrade' from a previous version, but NOT to downgrade.

1.5 Gig should be enough for Vista.

What model Acer do you have? You might be better just adding more memory.

@Haystack the wife has got me looking for a higher spec laptop for her so i guess the problem has been resolved.Thanks for your input

Pound notes is usually the solution.

Tell me about it,i almost fell of my seat when i found out the prices of high end laptops,i must have some scottish blood running in my veins as i hate spending money.