Gee, I am really a novice here, how do I do the sfc/scannow and I noticed all this trouble after installing IE 11

Easiest way is to tap F8 key on start up, then at menu choose safe mode with command prompt, then when blinking white cursor shows up, type in sfc/scannow then hit enter and let it run.

thank you so much I will try this, ps, that box dropped down again, after a restart, Configuration file is missing. please reinstall and restart computer.

the drop box is down again: Configuraton file is missing, uninstall the software completely and reinstall.

I don;'t know of sfc/scannow worked or not, lol, sorry.

OK,
Configuraton file is missing, uninstall the software completely

It's talking about a program not Windows thank goodness. I don't know what software or program it's referring to, but the instruction is to uninstall it what ever it is.

Me either zep, me either, I am the last one to know what that crap means, ad I want to thank all of you for your help, but how can I get my web page in my favorites back? all of them work but this one? Kinda scary to me, lol.

Many W7 users have problems with IE 11 remove it and roll back to IE9 or 10, I would stick with 10.

I tried that, but MS keeps me coming back to IE 11, maybe try somewhere else, thank you, I think this is where my problem is. I will let you know.

I THINK I got back to IE 10, but not sure, how do I tell, had to do a search to find out how to uninstall IE update and revert back to 10, but I am still very concerned about my web page I can access some parts of it by going to google but not the main page or other parts of it, so strange and I surely don't know what to do.

What is the URL of the website? Maybe that page just has a problem.

To find your IE version, click Help and then select About Internet Explorer. If you don't see the Help menu in the toolbar area, right click and choose Menu Bar to display it.

Well I AM using IE 10, but no go on the website. Here it is for anyone that wants to try it. I can get on it on my I-pad, just not on computer, www.showpig.com Any help would be appreciated. ps, facebook pulled same stunt today but I was able to get on it later, THANKS, P.K.

That "showpig.com" site works for me, no problem.

For that "can't connect" problem, unless they were having server problems, it sounds like you might be having intermittent connection problems. Are you on wireless ?
Try using a wired connection and see if the problem goes away.
If it does, you need to figure out why the wireless connection is unstable - if that's what the problem is.

That is, too far away from the wireless router, too many things in the way, interference (microwave, etc.), hardware problems, and so on.

See, no one else has this problem but me, and NO I am not on a wireless connection, what the crap is going on, my fav. web site is not available to me. I can google it and get on the "sale info" page but cannot get back to the home page. I think a "devil" is in my computer, as this has been going on a week, and I have tried everything to solve this problem, albeit I don't know much about a computer. Why this ONE website out of all my favorites does not work........ hmm If I were rich I would give a whole lot of money for someone to solve this for me. P.K.

I'm having issues with the website on Firefox, there is a black 'screen' at the top that seems like it should be showing me something. When I click into it, I get a different page.


Ok, I was able to disable my adblock plus on that page and it displayed finally.

Patricia, have you ever installed any ad blocker add ins for IE?

If I can't get it, and I can't then the website is having problems, so give up on it for now.

No never installed any ad blocker add ins that I know of.

well I will just talk to the people at that web site and tell them what is happening to me here, but I don't understand how I can get it on Ipad and not here.

you need to go into control panel uninstall programs, when list is populated scroll down and uninstall any toolbars you do not need, and anything conduit, these will be a big problem in IE, as they continue to try to redirect your IE searches or website you try to visit. Conduit is the worst it can allow over 100 crap things to install on your PC without you even knowing.

I get the showpig page (again, and on Firefox), but it does have the black box, which is a scroller for whatever that is scrolling at the right I think.
But basically the page loads.
Does the page load in general - everything else on it that is ?
If you're having problems connecting to it, as well as facebook, I would again venture to say it's a basic connection problem, most likely wireless I would think.

NO conduit and only Google toolbar. Not wireless, now what, sorry to keep bothering you all.

I think you should fix the computer startup problem first, before the website connection problem.
Having said that . . .

IE is probably getting automatically updated because you have your Windows Update set for "automatic". Actually I thought that particular one was still under manual control, but not sure because I only use automatic notifications, then manually click what I want to update.

Anyway . . .
Can you get all other websites to load reliably ?
Can you connect to showpigs.com in other browsers, but just not in one of them ?

Also there are a whole bunch of troubleshooting things you could try :

At the top of your browser (Firefox, IE, etc), in the location box where you usually see "http://website.com (for example) type in showpigs.com's IP address, which is
54.173.33.35, then hit Enter. See if you get the page.

If not try to do a basic Ping to their web server.
Open a command prompt by going to Start>>Search box and type in cmd, then Enter.
A black command prompt window will open up.

Type in "ping showpigs.com" (w/o the quotes) and see if you get four responses back from showpigs.com. If you do, at least you know their server is responsive.
If not, it could be something wrong with your DNS, or their server, or a number of other things.

So then type "ping 54.173.33.35" (w/o the quotes) and see if you get four responses.
If not, try to ping something else, like :

ping nytimes.com or
ping cnet.com

ping msn.com

ping facebook.com

If you don't get four responses from all of them, I'd suspect connection problems.

I'm just touching the tip of the iceberg, but I'm kind of doubting you'll be wanting to go through a whole tcp/ip troubleshooting step-by-step.

I don't know, have you tried giving it a swift kick ? At least that helps with the frustration.

I got nothing when I put IP address where you put a web site. When I ping the site, I got a timed out on all four trys, the rest of the pings came out ok, hope you understand this, did not know how to show you the log.

Think I will take a nerve pill and go to bed, hopefully we can get on this tomorrow and thank you so much for your help.

I can't get it from IE either, but it comes up fine in FF. Wonder if the reason you can get it on your ipad and not on your computer is the ipad doesn't use IE?

I just wrote another troubleshooting step, but then tried the site again - and it looks completely different. And that was on the second try. (With the first one, the site didn't come up.)
But that makes me think they're redoing their website.

What I had written . . .
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Ok, so I'm assuming you tried both
ping showpigs.com and
ping 54.173.33.35

It sounds like your basic networking hardware and "software" are working then.

Next thing, go back to your command prompt and type in

tracert 54.173.33.35

What that does is send a ping to each router along the path to showpigs.com, and each one should give a response. So you see a numbered list from each router, until it finally reaches showpigs.com.
The problem with that is that it's hard to interpret. A very long response time in milliseconds (ms) can show a problem with a particular router or path to it. But a "timed out" message may or may not be important.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

I bet it works in the morning though.

The site does seem to be up though.
You can check with uptrends.com/tools/uptime

I just looked in IE quickly.... I would need to click the little blue icon in the address field because some content is blocked because of privacy / tracking protection , see here maybe.... http://i.imgur.com/gUOBvgQ.jpg Because I see almost nothing there :) And I'm hesitant to do that there.

W/7 Home all auto updated.

I typed in >showpig.com< into 3 browsers several times each and got the following results:

Maxthon Showpig site

Chrome Showpig site

IE 11 This Page Cannot Be Displayed

===================================================

EDIT

Using IE 11 I was able to access these Showpig sites:

Auction Calendar www.showpig.com/online-auction-calendar-2

Desert Showpigs Online Auction

www.showpig-auctions.com/cgi-bin/mndetails.cgi?wendt100

On both sites clicking on the showpig HOME link resulted in >This page cannot be dislayed.

Most of the links worked except the HOME and FORUMS links. Forums is under the community tab. Both got the No Can Do Mssg.

I did get to the above sites as follows:

Began typing showpig into the address bar

The suggestions popping up below contained >showpig auction<

Clicking on that produced a Bing Search Result with the above sites among others.

I hope this might be what is known as a >clue<.

Nothing today either, I can google the site and get on the auction sites but nothing else. I would call the web master but I cannot even get to the contact numbers, Nothing new on here either, geez....

anyone got anything else to offer, I am at wit's end. thanks.

It does not do t his on any other computer, just mine. I can open on an ipad and two other computers. Thank you.

As far back as I can do a restore or recovery, it does the same thing, ????

I sent the admins of the pig site a message, linking to this thread.
Maybe they'll check in.

oh wow, thank you so much, I will let you know if they help.

Well, when I went to it with Firefox, I get the black box, too, but when I click on the box it opens up to a new page with auctions. If I disable my ad-blocker on Firefox, the black box doesn't occur and I have what I think is a normal page for that site. When I go to it with Chrome, it opens up just fine. Sometimes, web developers don't optimize a web site to perform equally well with all browsers. Patricia, have you tried going to the site with a different browser installed, like Firefox or Chrome?

No, don't have either, should I just download one and see? Thank you.

Yes...it will take about 5 minutes. If you really like another browser in preference to IE, you can even easily migrate copies of all your bookmarks to the new browser so you won't have to re-create them. I recommend Firefox, but Chrome has its merits, too. If you need more help with any of this, just ask...

I just downloaded Google Chrome and your link posted above opened right up N/P's

I downloaded Firefox and my site opened as pretty as you please. THANKS to all of you for your help. We assume that the site has the problem, not me. You all are so kind to try and help me and I so appreciate it. P.K. in La. ps, yes we are pig farmers, lol i.e. that site.

Great to hear...we think pig farmers should have equal access to the Internet :-)

lol, I will use Firefox from now on, but I DID change from IE 11 to 10, but I still could not open it, thanks for all the help y'all, I do really appreciate it. Saved me time and a lot of money I am sure...I am a little late tonight too because we just had a big bunch of crawfish to eat, they are in season and are great......

One little off topic tip, the first thing I do after installing Firefox is go to Tools>>Options>>Advanced>>General and check the box for "Search for text when I start typing".

It's a great little feature that allows you to search on a page by just typing what you're looking for, as opposed to using Cntrl + F (which still works).

That and changing the search engine under Tools>>Options>>Search, and adding Adblock Plus

Google Chrome goes one better, you can just ask (audio) Google and it will search and bring websites up faster then you can type...

That is "Search" function, not "Search page" function.
Anyway, she just installed Firefox and decided to stay with it, so I was giving a couple of start-off tips - not intending to start a Firefox vs Chrome vs IE vs Opera etc debate.
Sounds like a handy feature though.

Yes, it is a search engine, IE is still my default browser, just downloaded Chrome for DH less typing and I installed it as a back up incase IE has problems, which it rarely does, FF is a bloated, memory hogging browser but whatever floats ur boat.

Again, let's not start a browser war argument - it's been done a million times already and it's not appropriate here.

Trying to find my tools at the top of page Kbarb, can you helP

Oh, sorry, when Mozilla changed Firefox's user interface (UI) to what's called "Australis" I wasn't too happy about it and installed an extension - Classic Theme Restorer - that returns it to it's previous layout. I get so used to it I've forgotten I've done it.

But with the default Austalis UI, you get to Options by a different path.

By default now, I think you click on what's known as the "hamburger" - a little icon at the top right made up of three little horizontal lines. When you click on that, you should see "Options" or "Preferences" I believe.

See if that works.

Or just right click in the toolbar area and choose Menu Bar :-)