Help!

[chainwoman]

Alright computer and livejournal masters, I need your help. So, when I get on my computer at home and click on my friends list it starts at fionnabhar's post from May 6th and goes backwards. This has been happening for a few days. At first I thought it was lj, but then at work I was able to get to my friends page with no problem and thought the problem was fixed until I got home tonight and clicked on friends and the same thing happened. Argh! There is a way around it though. If I click on one of my friends and go to an entry I made and then click on my friends list it gives me the whole thing...

What the fuck? I dunno. Thinking it's something internet history related, but not really sure. I also think I might have a virsus since my computer completely bogged down and froze last night and I ended up having to shut it off without shutting down. DUANE! Will you come scan my 'puter for viruses?!?! *bats eyes*

Comments

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

First thing to do: delete your Temporary Internet Files and restart.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Clear the browser cache.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Ditto ^2. My very first thought was to hit the refresh button (or f5) to see if your cache refresh rate is off. LJ should refresh every time you load the page, but some websites that don't change a lot have your machine read from cache first. It sounds like you have a corrupted cookie file which is causing your browser to think it doesn't need to refresh.

While it is concievably possibly to do this with a virus, anyone going through the effort to build a virus usually has more deviant plans than corrupting cookies. My assumption is that your filesystem is a little unstable, I would defrag and chkdsk /f. I am wondering how long your installation of Windows is... a refresh of your O/S can clear out a -lot- of odd things for quite some time.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just clearing cache may not do the trick if it's a corrupted cookie, but that is a good first step. It should bring in a new copy of your lj-friends, but if it gets stuck again, clear your LJ cookie. 8-)

[chainwoman.livejournal.com]

where is my lj cookie?

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

right next to your LJ milk. 8-)

I could tell you how, but since it varies from version to version, I will just tell you to open a browser window, click on the "help" on the top bar, click "Contents and index", click the "index" tab and type "cookies" in the text box. I chose the "deleting cookies" topic.

What is neat about knowing how to look up the help is that the version of help you have will usually be specific to the version of Windows and IE you are running. I forgot MS has a cookie lister thing. I sorted by cookie name and looked for www.livejournal.com. It looks like this can be cleared by simply deleting all temporary internet files too... cookies and cache used to be seperate.

Also, when you are on the settings page, you can make sure you are set up to 'always' check for a new version of a page. Otherwise your browser might only check for updates every 24 hours, or every week. You can always force a re-check with f5.