Thread: Been a couple of weeks, and still having problems with new and improved site.

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I don't know if it's me,but never have I had this many problems with a new and improved site as this one. Daily changes on my computer, ,now it likes to log itself out from this site and those damn popups. New isn't always better!

I'm sitting here looking at the site and while I'm not "thrilled" with some of the changes have had only one problem "No Packets To Send" . It is very slow loading from my home page, but one other non-car site I use is as well.

My guess is that your computer has 'eaten' a virus or the registry is corrupted. As far as pop up, I use Firefox and they have an add-on called Adblock to dupm them.

The only popups I get are the adds for our supporters If not for them I'm sure you'd be paying dues of some kind.The changes havent effectied my p/c I realy don't have a problem with the new program at first I thought what the he)) is going on but it seems to have greatly improved and it all works.

I went into control panel (internet options) (Privacy) and put a site in to stop pop-ups. Can't remember or find the pop-up site I blocked. But you can turn on pop-up blocker. Maybe that might help.

Originally Posted by Trjohn57

I went into control panel (internet options) (Privacy) and put a site in to stop pop-ups. Can't remember or find the pop-up site I blocked. But you can turn on pop-up blocker. Maybe that might help.

I did this also and don't have any pop-ups now! Actually, this looks almost exactly like the old place. A couple of new sidebars that I find annoying but, other than that, I find the whole deal faster!!

question is what is api.viglink.com??.

It has been trying to uplaod now for about 4 minutes.might just go and do a google search.

Well this is what I found.

VigLink - API

Javascript doesn't have a upgrade for windows 98.

I am getting used to the site and can live with it, but to be honest, I see no advantages for the club member. It seems the only advantage is that it allows the use of the annoying popups (Although that is an advantage to the site owner since it probably increases his profit margin.)
I dislike the fact that only part of the poster's location is shown, usually only the city but not the state or province (Doesn't seem to have affected mine, however.) Also, the format keeps changing so it is difficult to see whether a posting is previously viewed or not.

What is with all the ads that appear in between every post? It's one thing to have sponsors ads appear at the top or on the sides, but in between each and every post is a bit much, I think.

I'm so upset I've decided to make some signs and picket this place. signs.jpg

Don

What about the ads that cover about 1/3 of each photo that is posted? How do you get rid of those? Extremely obnoxious! My popup blocker is on.

Has anyone put on ((Microsoft Security Essentials))?
They started that over a year ago and it's FREE. It's a virus protector that works very well. This is all I have been using for the last year on both computers. Every once in awhile I click on something that I probably shouldn't have. But you never know what's gonna happen when you click on anything because there are a lot od idiots that put nasty crap on. This MSE's catches it before it becomes a problem. I talked with a geek guy and he said that MSE's is the best thing that they have done. Your computer will slow down while it scans and does an update, but does not affect it when it's not doing it's thing.
Check it out. Like I say, it's free and does work well.
Go to google and type it in and do what it tells you to do.

I occasionally see an ad sneek in between posts, non on this one right now though. Have no idea what my computer does to eliminate them, most of the time they're not even there. Hey, if it keeps this and other sites like it free and not a buy a paid membership deal, for me it becomes little more then a minor inconvenience. Every other form of media, TV, radio, print, what have you has pages and pages of ads to weed through to get to the good stuff. Looks like we're still ahead of the game on CHR!!

I don't mind the ads that appear between the posts. It's the ones that cover up a portion of your pictures the bug me.......but I guess I already said that a few posts ago....LOL!

Originally Posted by randyr

What about the ads that cover about 1/3 of each photo that is posted? How do you get rid of those? Extremely obnoxious! My popup blocker is on.

Yeah, what he said !
Is there a way to stop all ads or would that defeat the purpose of the free server?

Originally Posted by randyr

I don't mind the ads that appear between the posts. It's the ones that cover up a portion of your pictures the bug me.......but I guess I already said that a few posts ago....LOL!

I don't see those floating ads at all, the sidebars can be closed by clicking on the arrow in the upper corner of them. Privacy settings are local to your browser, so you need to set the permissions locally on your system (in Seamonkey I have an option to block ads by web site, which I do frequently but not here as I seem to not see what you do). I do see in my settings I have googleadservices.com blocked as a global setting on my local computer, so you might want to set that on your own. Pop ups I do not see at all, virus scan your systems,clean out your cookie file, system and browser cache, then re log in.

Bill S.

Originally Posted by mrmustang

the sidebars can be closed by clicking on the arrow in the upper corner of them.


Bill S.

Wowee - love that one - a full page of CHR Hold-me-down

To eliminate the ads, you need an ad block - just like I noted above. MS with their IE latest version has one that is worse then useless. There are many posts on line about that feature and how horrible it is to try to work around. Occasionally I have to use IE for other programs and then log in here - for about as long as it takes to load before I go back to Firefox. Microsoft may be a decent (now) operating system, but much of the rest of what they offer is, IMO, pure junk.