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Is it my computer or this site please

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Dianne

Dianne Report 22 Jun 2009 16:27

Hi all

A computer engineer installed Mcafee as part of my service to my computer. There are now various threads on GR that I am unable to view, together with the whole of page 4 of general board.

Is it just my computer or is there something wrong with GR at the moment?

There are various other things I can't view such as some of the news items on the Yahoo home page so I am wondering if Mcafee is the culprit, and the parental controls are not letting me view anything which may have a naughty word in the text.

Also, the computer crashed 7 times today, which was the reason it went to the engineer in the first place.

I would appreciate your opinions.

Dianne xx

Dianne

Dianne Report 22 Jun 2009 16:36

Hi Shelli

Now you mention it he did say something about age group. I haven't been at all well today so I couldn't take in what he was saying.

Could you tell me how to alter the age group please?

Dianne xx

Dianne

Dianne Report 22 Jun 2009 17:00

Sorry Shelly, it's not working.

Control panel - ok

User accounts - ok

But then there is absolutely nothing to be seen about family safety?????

Dianne xx

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 22 Jun 2009 20:00

Hullo Dianne,

double click the Mcafee icon( by the clock) and on the menu that will come up should be " Parental Controls"

I dont have mine set up, but YOU may have......click on that

Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

katsgarden

katsgarden Report 22 Jun 2009 20:03

Hi
with my version of Mcafee I have a red M on the tool bar,right hand side.
right side click on it and it brings up a menu
I have to log in as the administrator (code word needed)
then I can go into configure and change the parental settings
hope thats useful
Sue

Dianne

Dianne Report 22 Jun 2009 21:44

Hi everyone, and thank you for your replies. The chap came back this evening and got it all sorted out for me, and also showed me how to do it.

I had been put down as a teenager so anything with a naughty word or picture I was unable to get. For instance I was able to do my food shopping online at a certain supermarket A**a, but if I tried to get into their clothes site Geo**e at A**a, I was barred out because they sell bras and knickers as well as other clothes lol.

We have had a multitude of problems lately with the computer crashing every few minutes and also blue screening so he had taken it away and completely stripped everything to give us a fresh start. It is going to take me forever to get all my genealogy sites back into my favourites, never mind all the other sites I go to.

Oh well, it will keep me out of mischief.

Dianne xx