# Please Help.. http Link Problem..

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-http-link-problem/10452>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-http-link-problem/10452 "2000-04-15T09:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-http-link-problem/10452/21 "2000-04-16T12:35:00Z")

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Kuped: I thought the process you were correcting me on was called ‘refresh’ as opposed to ‘reload’, which is what it says-- a complete reload and install of the app. while refresh is shutting down the computer or windows and restarting. Am I right? Wrong?

Answer to your questions: Surprisingly, this only happens within the Outlook Express app and a meta-search engine called ixquick. Neither app seems to respond to clicking on the link.

If this only happened within one app., I would be more willing to uninstall and reload said program. But it doesn’t, leading me to believe my parents somehow disabled, or enabled, a feature I don’t know about.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-http-link-problem/10452/22 "2000-04-16T15:04:00Z")

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CnoteChris, well doing these things remotely isn’t all that much fun 🙂

May be a whole bunch of things. But do try running the SFC, system file checker, too.

RUN:SFC

Yep, its on the computer, few people know about it. Checks to see if you have the right files.

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**Author:** ![Kupek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@Kupek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kupek)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-http-link-problem/10452/23 "2000-04-16T18:12:00Z")

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**Chris** : You refresh a webpage, you reload a webpage. You restart/reboot your computer. You install a program to get it on your computer, and you uninstall a program to get it off your computer. That’s the usage I’ve seen as long as I’ve been using computers.

Once the problem pops up, and you go to a different page, does the problem continue?

This is most likely not a feature your parents enabled/disabled. Programs just aren’t perfect.

And just to make sure, did you try closing the program when the problem was occurring, and checking to see if the process was still running?

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