# Advice needed for "Run Time Errors" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-run-time-errors/457374 "2008-07-22T15:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-run-time-errors/457374/1 "2008-07-22T15:20:16Z")
Friends please forgive my computer ignorance but I am having trouble with “ **run time errors** ”. I get several different kinds, object not found is the most common. I am running on Windows XP using AOL. This has happened before and my computer guy dose something to fix it but then a few months later the problem reoccurs. I would say almost 40% of sites I visit will flash this error and ask if I want to debug, if I say yes all this does is flash gibberish lines of code and most often lock up the machine. If I click no about five times the warning will usually flash off and I can view the page. If I use IE to surf the Web I get fewer of the error messages. I really don’t have much understanding about the inner workings of these kind of computer problems. Can anyone give me some advice. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-run-time-errors/457374/2 "2008-07-22T15:41:02Z")
What sort of sites generate the runtime error and what sites don’t? Maybe you have a corrupted Java or Flash install. My best advice is to avoid the AOL browser and IE entirely. Install Firefox and use that for your browsing.