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May 18, 2004 at 4:15 pm #10056naomi7ukMember
HELP!!! Can someone please help me solve the problem of not being able to type a message to my buddies in the AIM instant message window. Every other option in AIM seems to work ok. I have uninstalled and re-installed AIM a couple of times but it has not solved the problem. Many thanks in anticipation for your help. My OS is WinXP. Thanks again, Naomi7uk.
May 18, 2004 at 11:28 pm #79470DavidParticipantMaybe you have been warned too high?
Please explain what exactly is going on, otherwise there is nobody that can help you.
May 19, 2004 at 2:31 am #79475naomi7ukMemberHi David, Many thanks for replying to my posting. I have not been warned or ever been warned so that is not the problem for sure. You ask me to include more detail. The only thing that I can add to my original message is as follows. I sign on to AIM as normal. My buddy list comes up ok. I then click on any of my buddies names and the instant message window or box comes up. I try to type a message but it always remains blank. Many thanks again for your help. I really appreciate your kindness. naomi7uk
May 19, 2004 at 3:21 am #79469Jeff HesterKeymasterCould your font color be “accidently” set to the same color as the chat window background? So it “looks” like you’re not typing?
May 19, 2004 at 3:38 am #79474naomi7ukMemberHi Jeff, Thanks for your quick reply. When checking the text color and the background color or any of the other options I get an unusual response. When clicking on them all I get is the name of the option, say text color, etc the option stays and does not remove itself.
I can go all along the horizontal list of options and I just get a line of the names of the options that don’t go off. I have to actually close the window and re-open it to get a blank instant message window. Any ideas what is happening. Thanks. Naomi7uk.
May 19, 2004 at 10:02 am #79477rowtyMemberNaomi did you happen to talk to a lot of people the day or night before this happened. I have posted several posts regarding the implentations AOL/AIM has done to reduce their AIM/AOL Instant messaging spam. Your name maybe be gagged. Now they do suspend names for certain reasons, but all their traffic seems to be going through some sort of script. So it may have your name blocked for a certain amount of time. I don’t know the problem yet but it does have to do something with an in-out ratio with IM’s let me know if your still having this problem.
May 28, 2004 at 4:06 am #79479bavarian323iMemberI am having this SAME problem. I think it has something to do with adaware or spybot….did you run those too before the problem occured?
May 28, 2004 at 6:47 pm #79478bavarian323iMemberbump
May 28, 2004 at 8:05 pm #79473f0rbezMemberSounds like you cant even type into the text box right? Or it just doesnt go through? If you can’t type at all, it sounds like some kind of virus-like program. Maybe someone sent you a joke program that disabled typing in AIM. Anyway, I suggest running a virus scan and adware scan.
June 2, 2004 at 8:34 pm #79480blind2deafMemberI have the exact same problem. I also ran spybot… I think that might have something to do with it.
June 3, 2004 at 5:44 pm #79481kbMemberI am having the same problem. Can it be fixed?
June 3, 2004 at 11:04 pm #79472xspeedyalpha21xMemberDUDE, I HAVE THIS SAME PROBLEM TOO, AND I JUST USED ADAWARE AND SPYBOT!
HELP
AHHHHHHHHHHHHJune 4, 2004 at 5:55 pm #79482kcourterMemberI have the same problem. Cannot type in AOL instant message box. And I used AdAware and Spybot prior to this problem. I had been using Ad Aware for a long time and had no problem. Spybot I just downloaded a few days ago and it was after using this tool, that I experienced this problem.
Does anyone know how to fix this????
HELP
June 4, 2004 at 8:50 pm #79471xspeedyalpha21xMemberim guess that whatever aim uses to let you type in the Aim box must have spyware in it, and since spybot deleted it you cant type?
and I just found this out, if you type letters THE INSTANT you open an AIM box, the letters will appear.
June 8, 2004 at 7:52 pm #79486ndevineMemberI too am having the same problem. I have tried to re-install AIM and restore from Spybot with no luck.
Is there a fix for this?
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