Unbeknownst to its users, Webshots employed its Webshots Desktop Application (a free program that users can download from their site to manage their online pictures) to install the Kiwee Toolbar as part of a software update for this program. Other than the Wikipedia article (whose references don't appear to have anything to do with the surreptitious installation of Kiwee) and complaints in support forums about problems getting it off a computer, I don't see anything about it being forced on users. Was it one of the many tools bars included with software that installed by default but unchecking a box provided an opt-out? I just don't know. Although several of the search hits I saw included the word "unbeknownst" which leaves me wondering if they were written by the same person or several people parroting the others. In any case, it seems more a case of poorly written code and even poorer judgment on the part of American Greetings than malware. American Greetings does offer instructions on how to remove Kiwee although it sounds like you need to install the latest, greatest version first. I'm not sure I'd be jumping at at offer. Gosh Durn Mike ~ Don't be so rude & judgemental! I didn't get "glitter text" intentionally. Do you have any idea of the number of computers I've looked at with upwards of a half dozen different tools bars installed? Every user claimed they never installed them. Yes they did, when the went click, click, click without bothering to read what was on the screen. Now maybe I got up on my soapbox a little too soon and American Greetings did install poorly written software on their customers' computers without their customers knowledge or consent. If that is the case, I would be writing a nice letter to Mr. Weiss letting him know why he won't be getting any more of my money. Even if it meant giving up a really pretty screen saver.

rufus Assuming air flow is good and evap coil is clean, you have the classic symptoms of a unit with a refrigerant leak. If I'm correct and you don't have unit checked/serviced, it most likely will happen again and/or will not provide cooling. IMO

Thanks for the post. I wonder how well the folks at Houzz talk to each other. I found that while I was composing the initial post around 10:15 a.m., that I got a response from Houzz for a question I sent around 11 pm last night asking what happened and alerting them that gardenweb was down. The Houzz response was the generic 'gardenweb has moved to Houzz etc' but nothing about a problem. Then, as I was/am composing this post, I see another response to my (duh, yes I know about Houzz......) response, to their poor response; saying: The system was going through an update as we transitioned the site completely over to Houzz. We apologize for the inconvenience and will ensure that this happens minimally as we finalize the transition.

Raven, can you apply a userscript in your browser? (Using something akin to Greasemonkey? Tampermonkey perhaps?) If so, this userscript might help: // ==UserScript== // @name fixSearch // @namespace unique.namespace.489ijkdf.namespace.can.be.anything.unique // @include *gardenweb.com* // @version 1 // @grant none // ==/UserScript== document.getElementById('navSpecialPromoLink').style="display: none !important;"; document.getElementsByClassName('navbar-search-bar')[0].style="width: auto !important;"; Other than the header (the lines starting with //), there's really only two lines of code (JavaScript). The first line hides the sales tag. The second line allows the search box to resize to the proper width. To get an idea whether or not the above would work for you, you could possibly test using a bookmarklet... (1) Create a new bookmark, name it "fixSearch" or whatever. (2) Set the "location" to: javascript:void(document.getElementById('navSpecialPromoLink').style="display: none !important;"); void(document.getElementsByClassName('navbar-search-bar')[0].style="width: auto !important;"); As I'm sure you know, you shouldn't indiscriminately copy and run bookmarklets but this one is so simple, you can probably conclude it to be safe? ---------------------- A different method, if you can apply page styling (CSS), (using "Stylish" or similar) would be to use a couple styling rules like these: #navSpecialPromoLink { display: none !important; } .navbar-search-bar { width: auto !important; } As with the JavaScript, the first line hides the sales tag, the second line allows the search bar to resize automatically. --------------------- I agree though, you shouldn't have to do either, it should just work, no jumping though hoops. Why it's not, I don't know, I'm not a programmer. -------------------- BTW, I don't have a tablet to test with. And squeezing Firefox (on my desktop) down to a width of 300px doesn't cause the search bar to mess up in the same way yours does. In other words, being unable to replicate the problem, I have no way of knowing if any of the above is useful to you or not.