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For those of you who use Microsoft FrontPage, you may notice that using the edit button in Internet Explorer is a great way to bring up pages you want to fix. Someone mails you a URL you need to adjust, you browse to it, hit the edit button and like magic, you get prompted to log into the FrontPage web and you are off editing! But what happens when the button gets grayed out? I used to think the only way to fix this was a system rollback or a format. And as many of you know, I tend to get very annoyed at things that don't function as they should. Well recently, I came across the cause of this problem, and it's not what you might think. Internet Explorer apparently devotes a large portion of your hard drive to cache. I just looked on my machine here when the gray out condition happened and it had devoted 3656MB of space to cache. Why does that have an effect on the button? Who knows, but I changed my cache file to a reasonable 30MB and guess what... the button works again.

Remind me to get some sort of blog software working here will you? Jeeze. I just want to occasionally be able to type stuff but the archiving is a PITA. Mike had looked into movable type so I may need to do that soon. Blogger looked promising at first and then fizzled out with it's failure to work from my sidekick. As a web designer of sorts, part of me has a real problem with blogging systems but for this sort of site, it should work.