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 Outlook email addresses are not necessarily in your contacts or address book! If you're using Microsoft Outlook (or Outlook Express) you may have noticed that as your begin typing an email address into the "To: or CC: or even BCC: field, a slew of constantly refining matching names begin to fill the field. When you see the one you want pop up, press the enter key and the email address is transferred.
Look for this address in your contacts or address book list and it might not be there. A bigger issue might be moving everything to a new computer and Lo and Behold! All those names are gone. Here's the secret and the fix.
Each time you type an email address or reply to an incoming email, Outlook stores that recipients address in what we call a Nickname File. This file is stored in a hidden folder on your computer and while not unlimited in capacity is enormous and large enough for most of us. When the "nickname cache" does fill up, Outlook begins to overwrite the oldest entries.
Want to delete an entry, perhaps because you mistyped an address and it keeps popping up, just scroll down the list and press the "Delete" key.
Moving the nickname file to a new machine is doable but might be a bit complicated. You will need to change the default file display options to view hidden files. Make sure Outlook is not running. Now navigate (Windows XP) to
\\ "Documents and Settings"\"Your user name"\"Application Data"\Microsoft\Outlook or of you have Vista or Windows7 C:\Users\"your user name"\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook and copy the contents to the new machine and place it in the same folder.
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"Script Errors" in Internet Explorer or AOL? If you're getting any message that contains the words "script error" and/or "Do you want to debug"? The bad news is that unless you are trained in script writing (and even then, I'm not sure you could accomplish anything), you do not wish to debug. The good news is that this error is programmatic and has nothing to do with the computer you are working on and more importantly will not affect your browsing. Here's the fix that will eliminate this error permanently.
Press Alt-Ctrl-Del all at the same time to start task manager (you can also start task manager by right clicking the task bar). Click the process tab. Sort the processes by either name, assuming you know the name, or memory (the process consuming the most ram is probably the offender). Right click the process and select "End process" or "End process Tree". The offender will end and the operating system will return to normal.
You're fairly certain that there are no viruses or malware on your computer and everything is running normally, but, that web page is certainly not the one you wanted! Your DNS cache might be poisoned.