this is a good guide for those kinds of browser messages, the one described I think falls in the 503 error category. Decoding and dealing with browser error messages I have seen the error message you describe with the try again, that is a firefox error message. In most cases when I have seen it, it was because the actual website I was trying to access was down or very slow responding and would work after waiting a bit. If you are continually getting them it is sounding like you are dropping the connection on that pc to the net. "503: Service unavailable This is a "temporarily out of order" sign, and it's sometimes reported as Gateway timeout. It means either the server that hosts the site is currently not working or is unavailable, your ISP's server is down, or your own system or company Internet gateway (if you're on a LAN) is not working. How to handle it: Wait a minute and try again. If you get the message for a lengthy period or with every attempt to connect to any site, check that your PC and LAN connections are functioning, and then check with your ISP or the remote site. This may entail a phone call to their tech support line." for those wanting to know if a site is down for everyone or if the problem is just on your end this is a great link to use to find out exactly that. Here is a link that might be useful: downforeveryone

I'm with salgal and iowagirl2009. In my opinion, this computer should be wiped clean, "low-level" formatted and reloaded. You lost everything on it already so there can't be much on there of importance yet that can't be backed up after a thorough virus/malware check. This doesn't sit right with me. And OK, the computer and relationship issues are separate issues so deal with them separately. But I would have someone competent do a complete drive wipe and start over. My first thought was they could have slipped in a "back door". For peace of mind, that thing would be sanitized. The son's dealing with this so far. If they're friends, they're friends. Have a sit-down and encourage him to be cautious, tell him you're there for him but you're not going to try to run his life. It sounds like that's where he's at anyway. Illegal to have a computer by the window? That's a new one on me! :) Password recovery because someone who worked on your computer wouldn't give you your passwords? LOL Sorry, but nope. That's not rational. They're not you're IT person, they were supposed to clean malware from your system and they weren't able to do that so how should they be given credibility to have such control over your system? Nope. No way. Uh-uh. Not in this lifetime. Yes, the Admin and separate accounts being kept separate is a good way to go, but in all my years of servicing computers, there's NO WAY I'd ever put myself in the position where I'd be the only one with passwords for a client's computer! Forget liability, forget the silly arguments, I *always* would not only give them the passwords, but tell them TO CHANGE them so there can't be an accusation toward me. Plus 5 year later when they call and cry that they can't remember the password, I remind them that they were to have changed it and I didn't have it. In reality, I doubt these people are all that intelligent computer-wise to do the things a person in that position could do. But that doesn't matter, I'd still have it wiped out. Given they couldn't clean some malware, and of course we don't know how serious it was, nor do we even know for sure there was a virus or other malware on there, but with the toold available now, readily available, free and easy to use, they shouldn't have wiped your computer. For security purposes, if you use this computer for anything requiring a password, I'd change all those passwords. Online banking, credit cards, etc, especially! That data is possible to dig out. When I had a system with important data on it that needed service, the first thing I did was back up the entire hard drive completely. That backup of course would be in my posession. Unscrupulous people could, at their liesure look thorugh your data and see what they could find. Am I overly-suspicious? Often, yes, but that's what I got paid to do. And I've done enough forensic data recovery to be amazed at what is on peoples' systems, readily accessible by anyone and the simplistic passwords used by many people. FWIW, my one partner thought she had a foolproof password on her computer. I guessed it in two tries! I'm not encouraging paranoia, just common sense caution. When something doesn't smell right, I don't swallow it. This wouldn't get near my mouth!

If you have a "Computer" or "My Computer" icon on your desktop, double click on it. Click on whatever drive is stuck, E for example. Click on "File", then "Eject" The disk should eject. If it doesn't you can try restarting your computer and manually ejecting the disk as you normally do. If it still doesn't work you can shut down your computer, and take a paperclip and shove it in the tiny little hole that's near the eject button of the drive. This will manually force open the drive. Usually you don't have to do that though, either going to the menu and telling it to eject or restarting the computer and pushing the eject button on the drive works.

There are several other errors that I have seen. PICNIC: "Problem In Chair, not in Computer" POBCAC: "Problem Occurs Between Computer and Chair" PEBKAC: "Permanent Error Between Keyboard And Chair" Sue