Facebook Check-Ins Cities not loading anymore

Actually one of my favourite features on Facebook and it's currently not working. Can it be fixed?

It noticed it already a while ago, since I like checking the world map especially after checking in to lots of places around the world after a long travel. 

However, I cannot use this feature now for a couple of months. I cleared the cache, using IE or Google Chrome making no difference. As soon as you go to 'Places' the loading bars are running.

I googled for the issue if other users are experiencing the same and it seems that it can happen from time to time. In this thread in the Facebook community Help Center there was simple the suggestion to report the issue to Facebook.


So, I did the same, now waiting for response. As soon as I know something I will get back to that!

And if you have any experience on that feel free to comment!

How to solve Internet Explorer issues - Basic Troubleshooting

Having problems with running webpages and other web applications running with Internet Explorer? Here´s a basic troubleshooting which IT supporters could face on a daily level - depending on the position of course...

Doing 1st-Level IT tasks sometimes feels like running in a circle and doing the same things over and over again. One of these tickets can be solved by are clearing the Internet Explorer´s temporary data... Here´s how:

1. Clearing the browser cache
Close the browser, go to Internet options, General and "Delete"

Select all the checkboxes (except the first one doesn´t really matter) and confirm with "Delete".

2. Remove the SSL state
Select another tab, this time "Content" and select "Remove SSL state".

3. Clear credentials
For that step, go to in Control Panel to the Credential Manager and remove all entries.

Once that´s done you can try to open the Internet Explorer again. If there´s still a problem with the website which only involves your browser I would recommend to do an Internet Explorer reset (in Internet Options => Advanced Options).

And the other solution is: Just use Google Chrome ;)

Google Blogger and bX-tsn23x

I was recently about to change the name for one of my Google blogs, but I always ran into an error message. Here´s what I tried and how I could finally change the name.

The error message was the following: "Whoops, that´s an error! (bX-tsn23x)". The message appeared shortly after I changed the name of the subdomain of the Google blog. Sometimes I could change the name for a few seconds until it was changed back again.

Here´s what I tried:
- removing all the Chrome browser cache
- opened in the Internet Explorer/Edge
- opened in an incognito windows

It did not solve the issue: But then I found a better idea!
To open Blogger in Draft Mode. ==> https://draft.blogger.com

I changed the name again and it remained. I could open the new page name without issues now! And that´s it. Good to know.

Blog stats - June 2016

Let's take a look at some stats from June which Google Blogger offers me. Let's take a look at the click percentage of the countries, browsers and operating systems.

Of course these numbers aren't completely accurate and some countries with a low amount of clicks are missing. Anyway, looking at the big ones - the most clicks are coming from the United States, France and Germany.

Looking at the operating systems we can clearly see Windows with the biggest percentage, but it would have been interesting to see which Windows versions were used. Ùnfortunately we can't see more with Google Blogger, Google Adwords would be better for that.

And finally a view at the web browsers: Google Chrome is clearly ahead followed by Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer and Safari with 7% each were rarely used.

Windows Updates not working after malware cleanup

A Windows 7 computer was infected with some viruses, malware etc. and after a successful cleaning procedure there remained one visible problem: Windows Update is not working anymore.

While trying to search for further updates the following message appeared:

Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running.

But the service is definitely running. To fix this the following steps need to be done:

1. Open services.msc (or go to computer management) to stop the Windows Update service.

2. Go to C:\Windows and rename the folder "SoftwareDistribution" to something like "SoftwareDistribution_old".

3. Restart the Windows Update service and restart the computer. The folder will be recreated.

4. Go to Windows Update again and search for updates. This time you're offered to install "New Windows Update software". Confirm it.

5. Following that the search for updates seems endless only to end up with error messages like these two: 0x80072EE2 or 0x8007000E. It won't continue.

And there they are...

6. So now go to Internet Explorer to the options and reset the settings and cache completely. Restart your computer and all of a sudden the updates will appear.

Anyway: After such virus problems there can be several other things damaged in the operating system. The safest and most recommended way would be to save the data and reinstall the OS. This is just a quick fix to get Windows Update working again.