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BlkMane said:
Can the gremlins cause problems with my computer? I tried to reply to posts twice today and each time my screen got all fuzzy...it's happening right now as I type. This never happened to me before on the old forum. I ask are the gremlins causing the problems, because I only encounter difficulty when I'm in the "Post" screen trying to reply to messages.
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No the graemlins cannot cause any harm to your computer. You only get it in the post screens because those screens have them all gathered in one place.
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BlkMane said:
At first all the animated gremlins are jumping all around, then the whole screen starts "jumping" around. /images/graemlins/computer.gif
By the way, I just switched to Netscape's web browser (was in Explorer before) and now the page is not screwing up.
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Sometimes Internet Explorer can act a bit funny when displaying graemlins.
The way the whole process runs is as follows:
An animated graphic (one of our graemlins for instance) is a collection of small pictures which are displayed one after another in a continous loop - hence creating the animation effect. In order for this to be achieved, memory and power from your computer's processor and graphics card are allocated to create the desired effect. In some cases, the system has not de-allocated the resources from an earlier task and it finds it difficult to cope with the "demand". A quick and dirty solution is to delete all your temporary internet files, delete your cookies and then open your browser, log back into the forum and open one of the post screens. You wait a bit until all the graemlins load and that should cure it.
The reason that you wait for a bit for the graemlins to load is that, when you visit a page for the first time, the graphics used by that site are being downloaded on your computer in the temporary internet files area. This way, when you revisit the site, the loading time is smaller, since all the images are alrady cached so they are accessed from your computer and not the server. This method reduces bandwidth and makes sites appear faster, since only the changed information is transferred back to the user.
By emptying the temporary files folder, you re-request the graemlins from the server and that should cure the problem.
Please keep me informed of the progress. If this still causes you a problem I will have to redesign the post screens so that only certain graemlins appear and the rest of them are hidden until you request them.
Have fun
