Auto refresh

[RSB]

How long before the page refreshes? Do you have any browser plugins that are on all your devices? Have you tried different browsers?

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[The Duke]

No issues like that for me. Chrome on Android, or Chrome on Windows. Or Chrome on Chrome os.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

So let me get this strait ?

You only get this problem with Forumite and only after you have logged in ?

Can you read posts normally without logging in ?

[Alan Wood]

RSB wrote:

How long before the page refreshes? Do you have any browser plugins that are on all your devices? Have you tried different browsers?

 

About 10 seconds.

Yes I have a couple of plugins but not the same ones on all browsers

[Alan Wood]

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

So let me get this strait You only get this problem with Forumite and only after you have logged in ? Can you read posts normally without logging in ?

Only on Forumite

It seems that it happens when I log in. (How do you log out, can’t find it).

 

Yes I can read posts without logging in.

[PlaneMan]

To log out go to the gears on the left hand side in the pop-out meu. (At the bottom)

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Sometimes the login on my mobile fails to work properly and I get something like you describe. I have to make sure I get the spinning envelope and then wait before I continue.

[Alan Wood]

Hi WoF

 

It does not happen in the way you describe. I load any page and start to read it and about 100 seconds later it just refreshes without me doing anything else.

[Dave Rice]

Have you tried turning auto refresh off on one of the browsers?

[The Duke]

What actully is ‘auto refresh’?

[Alan Wood]

I can’t find any such setting in any of the browsers. Can you advise where  I can disable it  (If it is actually enabled).

[JayCeeDee]

If it’s W10 causing the problem, the details below might help. I thought it might have been caused by a W10 update as all browsers were affected and more than 1 machine meant they could both (all ) have been affected by a dodgy W10 update.

 

How to Fix Windows 10 Screen Auto Refresh
Right click Windows icon (first icon on task bar – bottom left)
Select Run.
Type msconfig.
Click OK.
Click Services tab.
Click on the Service column sort by service name.
Scroll to look for the following services and uncheck them: Windows Error Reporting. Problems Report and Solutions.
Restart Windows.

[Alan Wood]

Hi JCD

Will give that a try tomorrow. Thanks.

[Ed P]

I need to reprise what you have written to eliminate spurious impressions.

a) You complain that Forumite and only Forumite autorefreshes your screen. No one else has this problem.

b) You state that this happens on each and every computer in your household

c) You infer (use of 3G and caravan) that it happens at multiple locations and also on the mobile.

There are no apparent common factors in this tale unless you are using the same monitor or the same router/access point in each and every case.

[Alan Wood]

(a)  Yes that is correct.

(b)  Yes that is correct.

(c)  It happens at my caravan using a Zoom 3G router on mobile data sim. It does not appear to happen when browsing on my smartphone. It happens using a desktop permanently installed at the van and on my laptop, both connected to the router using ethernet.

 

Just going to try JCD’s idea and just thought, I have an old netbook using Win 7 so will give that a try as well

[Alan Wood]

Tried the Win 7 on the netbook and it continually refreshes the page. As it is slow at downloading (50 -150 Kb/s) on an 80Mb/s fibre connection I wondered if this might have been a factor. It has now been continually refreshing for about 10 minutes and takes about 2 mins to cycle through to the next refresh. On my main machines the download is much quicker so that accounts for the much shorter delay between refreshes.

Is this forum set up to connect to other advertising sites to generate income or something similar.

[Ed P]

Good thought, maybe you are using an odd-ball ad-blocker or screen grabber that no one else does. It could just be the way that extension works with (say) WordPress. Try ‘refreshing’ Firefox (or whatever) and see if that has an effect.

[Alan Wood]

Been through the process of disabling the services suggested by JCD but still the same problem however it seems to have changed slightly in that it does not refresh Page 1 but it then refreshes on change to Page 2 and subsequently on every page change even back to page 1.

In the words of Toya Wilcox It’s a mythterey”.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

We are getting into the realms of using Process Monitor from Sysinternals here. This would involve delving through a large log file with filters and looking at stack traces. If you want to give it a go then I can give you some pointers or I may even be talked into looking through a copy of the log myself ?

[Ed P]

I#’d go for  ‘unusual’ software running on all his machines. i.e. something that he always installs/uses that runs on start-up. I’d start with Autoruns on all the affected machines and look for commonalities then go through a process of elimination.

I said ‘unusual’ software as this is not a problem experienced by anyone else. i.e not Windows or the usual Office suites unless he has an HTML or CSS editor running at start-up.

If these do not throw up anything then I agree with Graham – Process Monitor, and start thinking virus/rootkit/Bitcoin miner.

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