Anyone know why browser settings change?

[Patty]

Does anyone know why browser settings change by themselves?

My browser setting was set to:
Check for newer versions of stored pages: Automatically.

Then, as I was on the web, it set by itself to: Never.
It really goofs up browsing.

Why?


Thanks for your help.

 

[* kittie *]

do you share your computer with anybody else? maybe someone changed it accidentally. other than that, i'm not sure. cuz that shouldn't even happen, because that isn't even a default choice.

 

[Patty]

Originally posted by blueiverson
do you share your computer with anybody else? maybe someone changed it accidentally. other than that, i'm not sure. cuz that shouldn't even happen, because that isn't even a default choice.

Nope. Nobody is here. And, nobody touches my computer but me.

I didn't respond to your post on the other thread I started the other day - asking for help regarding that popup IM or whatever it is - because it seemed like the Christian Forums posts were frozen at yesterday's time. No matter what I did, I couldn't get to read the posts today.

Until Erwin helped me and said to check my settings, as I detailed above.
Sure enough, my settings were at 'Never' like Erwin suspected. So, today, I reset to Automatic and it worked for a few hours, then it reverted to Never.

Yesterday, I had deleted my cookies and temp files to see if that would get rid of that pain-in-the-neck 'messenger service' thing. I just got another one.

I'm about to go bald pulling my hair out.

 

[* kittie *]

go to download.com, and get adaware. it's supposed to get rid of spyware on your computer. if you download progams, you might have spyware on your computer.
anyways, also ask for help on the adaware website...about which spyware to delete. it's not too hard.

 

[Patty]

I found out why my browser settings changed. Yay!

The fix was simple. I have Windows XP. And, Windows XP has a function that allows the user to restore settings to the way they were days, weeks or months prior. That means that lots and lots of information on each and every session on the computer is stored. That's a big cache of information.

And, I don't ever use that function. So, I shut it off. By shutting it off, the entire cache of useless temporary files was wiped out. Voila! No more problems with my browser settings changing.

 

[alphatronics]

It might be that your browser sucks.

I prefer Opera.

 

[Patty]

Originally posted by alphatronics
It might be that your browser sucks.

I prefer Opera.

It wasn't the browser itself.  It was my Windows XP storage functions. 

When the temp files get to a certain level, it won't search for newer versions of pages.  So, it reverts to 'Never' search for them and takes the system off 'Automatic'.

So, all I had to do was to shut off the 'System Restore' feature so that Windows XP won't be saving all those settings that are saved in the unlikely event that I might want to roll back my system settings to where they had been at a previous date in time.