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1. I have paid a subscription, but when I login the site tells me "Please Register"
2. What is the "add to my Yahoo", "add to Google" and "add to my MSN" buttons?
3. What are RSS Feeds and XML?  
4. Sounds don't play in the vocabulary.
5. Sounds open in a new Window.
6. I played the sounds and now my browser opens in a small window.
7. I Forgot my Password.
8. I Forgot my User Name.
9. Install Greek language on Windows 95/98
10. Install Greek language on Windows 2000
11. Install Greek language on Windows XP
12. Install Greek language on Windows Vista
13. Finding special Greek characters at your Keyboard
14. I can't see the Greek Characters in the Tests results.
15. The Hangman game does not work, or it shows odd characters
16. The Word Search games don't work

I have paid a subscription, but when I login the site tells me "Please Register"

  If you are a paid subscriber and you are taken to the "Please Register" page when you login, please enable cookies in your browser. The ASP session needs the cookies enabled. This solution applies to the users that their account is currently active (paid).

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What is the "add to my Yahoo" button?

  If you have an account with "MY YAHOO", "GOOGLE" or "MY MSN" you can click the button of your choice and add our RSS (Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) feeds into your "MY YAHOO", "GOOGLE" or MY MSN" pages. After you do that you'll be able to see all the related news and updates regarding I Learn Greek.com, without visiting the site.

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What are RSS Feeds and XML?

  RSS (Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a format for syndicating news or content of sites. RSS aware programs are called news aggregators. A news aggregator can help you keep up with favorite weblogs or news by checking their RSS feeds.
I Learn Greek.com's RSS will post news about this site. You can click the HTML icon and read the feed as a standard web page or drag and drop the RSS-XML icons to your RSS reader, to read news and information about I Learn Greek.com without opening your browser!
You can download a free reader at SharpReader.net

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Sounds don't play in the vocabulary

  We have recorded our sound files in MP3 format. This is a very popular format and every player can play the files. Most modern browsers will handle the sound files with their own software called plug-ins. If your browser does not play the sound, make sure that your player (Quick Time, Media Player, Real Player, etc) is up to date. Ensure that you set up the preferences in your player so that MP3 sound is enabled. If this does not work, download the newest version of a player. Some links are: Quick Time, or Real Player.

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Sounds open in a new Window.

  We program the site so when you click on a sound file (Play button) a new window pops up. The new window have your player's console and it will play the file. After the file is played, you can play it again instantly, as many times as you like. We recommend that you make the sound window small enough that does not distract you from your study, and big enough so you can see the player's console. Do not close the second (sound) window until you finished listening to sounds.

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I played the sounds and now my browser opens in a small window.

  When you played the sound files you probably resize the second window to make it smaller. Modern browsers "remember" the last changes a user made. Maximize the window by clicking the maximize button on the top right corner of your browser. To prevent this from happening again avoid resizing the second window that opens when you click to hear a sound.

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Forgotten Password

  If you forgot your password, please click Forgotten Password to go to the forgotten password page. You can also access this page when you enter your e-mail address at the navigation bar log-in boxes. Put any word as a password, and the system will show you a message. Click on the link on the message and this will take you to the "forgotten password" page. Enter the email address that you used to sign up and press "Retrieve Password". If the email address that you entered was correct the system will email you the password in a few minutes.   

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Forgotten User Name

 Your User Name is the e-mail address that you provided when you registered. To retrieve it, go to Contact Us page and send us a message. We will email you back your secret question. Please reply with your answer. If you don't remember the secret question and answer, please provide any information you used during your registration.  Please understand that we have to match some info or you will need to register again. That's why you should provide a real e-mail address during your registration..

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Install Greek Language On Windows 95/98 

To install the Greek language in Windows 95 and 98, follow the instructions bellow:

 Click : Start - Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Windows Setup. Then, click on Multilanguage Support and click Details. Check the Greek Language Support checkbox, and click OK. Click OK again, and the windows will  install the Multilanguage support. You may be need to restart your computer. 
Once Windows '95 has restarted do the following:
Click: Start - Settings - Control Panel - Keyboard - Language. If you don't see "Greek" there   along with the English. Click on Add and select Greek from the list. You should now see GR Greek- Greek IBM 220 or something similar. If the Layout is incorrect, highlight the line for Greek, and click on Properties. There you can select Greek IBM 220 for the Keyboard layout. That's it. 
Remember
Before clicking the OK button, make sure that Left Alt+Shift is selected so you are able to switch between the languages on the taskbar.  Make sure, also, that  the "Enable indicator in taskbar" option is selected. 

To use the Greek keyboard: 
Use Left Alt+Shift to switch between the English and Greek keyboards.
To type an accented vowel, press the ';' key and then the vowel (separately).
To use the dialitika ¨, press ':' before the vowel.
To use dialitika with accent ΅, press SHIFT-W and the the vowel.
To actually type ';' (the Greek question mark) and ':' (colon / Διπλή Τελεία) you need to press 'Q' and 'SHIFT-Q' respectively.

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Install Greek Language On Windows 2000 

To install the Greek language in Windows 95 and 98, follow the instructions bellow:
Click Start -  Settings - Control Panel . 
Double-click Regional Settings . 
Click the General tab, click to select the check box next to the appropriate language group you wish to install, and then click Apply . The system will ask for a Windows 2000 CD-ROM. When the language is installed, Windows 2000 will prompt you to restart the computer. 
To enable a newly added language and specify a keyboard layout in Windows 2000, follow these steps: 
Click: Start - Settings - Control Panel . 
Double-click: Regional Settings . 
Click: the Input Locales tab. 
In the Input Locales box, click the Greek language, and then click Properties . 
In the Keyboard Layout box, click the appropriate keyboard layout, click OK , and then click OK again. Make sure to enable the language on the task bar.

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Install Greek Language On Windows XP

To install another language and keyboard layout in Windows XP, follow the steps below:
In the Windows XP standard Start menu, click Start - Control Panel or 
In the Windows XP classic Start menu, click Start - Settings - Control Panel . 

Double-click Regional and Language Options . 
Click the Languages tab, and then click Details under "Text Services and Input Languages". 
Click Add under "Installed Services", and then click the Greek  and the keyboard layout you want to use for Greek. 
To configure the settings for the Language bar, click "Language Bar" under "Preferences". 
To configure the settings for switching between two or more languages click "Key Settings" under "Preferences".

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Install Greek Language On Windows Vista

To install another language and keyboard layout in Windows Vista, follow the steps below:
In the Windows Vista standard Start menu, click Start - Control Panel or 
In the Windows Vista classic Start menu, click Start - Settings - Control Panel . 

Click: Clock, language and Region - Change keyboard and other Input methods or
if you have the classic view, click: Regional and Language Options
Click the Keyboard and Languages tab, and then click Change Keyboard.
The "Text Services and Input Languages" window will appear
Click Add under "General", and then click the Greek  and the keyboard layout you want to use for Greek. 
To configure the settings for the Language bar, click "Language Bar".
To configure the settings for switching between two or more languages click "Advanced Key Settings".

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Finding special Greek characters at your Keyboard

To find and use the special Greek characters read the following:
Use Left Alt+Shift to switch between the English and Greek keyboards.

• To type an accented vowel, press the ';' key and then the vowel (separately).
• To use the dialitika ¨, press ':' before the vowel .
• To use dialitika with accent ΅, press SHIFT-W and the the vowel.
• To actually type ';' (the Greek question mark) and ':' (colon / Διπλή Τελεία) you need to press 'Q' and 'SHIFT-Q' respectively.

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I can't see the Greek Characters in the Tests results.

  Some of Netscape's Browsers will show odd characters when you hit the "Give me my score" button in the tests. To solve that, in the View menu, click Character Set and then Greek (windows-1253) or Greek (ISO-8859-7).
  To take advantage of all the features of this web site please download and install the latest versions, of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape.

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The Hangman game does not work or
it shows odd characters

  The hangman game will work better if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator 4.5 and higher. In some earlier versions of Communicator 4x, the Greek Characters appear as strange symbols, in the text boxes.  To solve that, in the View menu click Character Set and then Greek (windows-1253) or Greek (ISO-8859-7).
  You will not have any problem with the Communicator 4.7, if you use the correct character set. 
  If you  have the same problem using Explorer click the View menu then Encoding and then Greek (Windows).
  To take advantage of all the features of this web site please download and install the latest versions, of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape.

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The Word Search games don't work

You will need to download and install the Java™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition from Sun Microsystems web site.

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