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Guest Eustace

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For two or three days now I have experienced some peculiar events:

 

(1) When I click at a local html file I get an alert like:

 

Windows cannot find 'C:\my files\webpage.html'. Make sure you typed

the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click

the Start button and click Search.

 

while the webpage loads OK at the FF2 (my default browser).

 

(2) When I close one program, another program closes simultaneously.

This happened 2 times with the same 2 programs.

 

I run Ad-aware and it found 2 registry keys and 1 registry value

(dialers, low risk) that it took care off. Then I run Spybot and it

didn't find any other problems.

 

Since the 2 problems appeared at about the same time, I tend to think

they are connected, and may also connected with the registry keys, since

it's very rare that Ad-Aware find anything else then cookies.

 

Any ideas?

 

Eustace

 

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Re: Opening html file etc.

 

A1. Is IE7 installed?

 

A2. What programs, ferinstance?

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Eustace wrote:

> For two or three days now I have experienced some peculiar events:

>

> (1) When I click at a local html file I get an alert like:

>

> Windows cannot find 'C:\my files\webpage.html'. Make sure you typed

> the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click

> the Start button and click Search.

>

> while the webpage loads OK at the FF2 (my default browser).

>

> (2) When I close one program, another program closes simultaneously.

> This happened 2 times with the same 2 programs.

>

> I run Ad-aware and it found 2 registry keys and 1 registry value

> (dialers, low risk) that it took care off. Then I run Spybot and it

> didn't find any other problems.

>

> Since the 2 problems appeared at about the same time, I tend to think

> they are connected, and may also connected with the registry keys, since

> it's very rare that Ad-Aware find anything else then cookies.

>

> Any ideas?

>

> Eustace

Guest Ayush

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Re: Opening html file etc.

 

[Eustace] wrote-:

> For two or three days now I have experienced some peculiar events:

>

> (1) When I click at a local html file I get an alert like:

>

> Windows cannot find 'C:\my files\webpage.html'. Make sure you typed

> the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click

> the Start button and click Search.

>

> while the webpage loads OK at the FF2 (my default browser).

 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=611435

 

Good Luck, Ayush.

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Guest Eustace

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Re: Opening html file etc.

 

On 2007-07-13 17:33 Ayush wrote:

> [Eustace] wrote-:

>> For two or three days now I have experienced some peculiar events:

>>

>> (1) When I click at a local html file I get an alert like:

>>

>> Windows cannot find 'C:\my files\webpage.html'. Make sure you typed

>> the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click

>> the Start button and click Search.

>>

>> while the webpage loads OK at the FF2 (my default browser).

>

> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=611435

>

> Good Luck, Ayush.

 

Thanks! Clearing the DDE Message did the trick. -Eustace

Guest Eustace

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Re: Opening html file etc.

 

On 2007-07-13 17:23 PA Bear wrote:

> A1. Is IE7 installed?

 

Yes. The issue seems somehow to be connected with the Adobe Reader 8.1

update. The other reply helped me solve it.

> A2. What programs, fer instance?

 

I use Adobe Reader 8.1, WordPerfect 12, and the Freelang Dictionary

3.7.1 (http://www.freelang.net) together on a daily basis. What I do is

use the Greek-English dictionary to find words from the Adobe Reader,

and then use the WP Writing Tools dictionaries to find any words I

didn't find at the Freelang dictionary. After finishing, I click the X

of the WP writing tools to close them, and then the X at the top right

of the window to close WP. When I do this, Freeland also closes

simultaneously, while normally I'd have to click the X of its Search

words window and then the X of its main window. It has been happening

almost regularly for about a week now. Weird. I did not think there was

any way to close 2 different programs simultaneously in Windows anyway,

unless of course you turn off the computer, but obviously it can happen.

 

It's more of an annoyance, since after closing WP I would also close

Freelang, but it's not right and I am worrying that something is wrong

with my computer.

 

BTW, Freelang has an Automatic Clipboard search feature, so when I copy

a word within the Adobe Reader, Freelang automatically finds the word.

Sometimes also Windows brings the Freelang window on top, but usually

that does not happen.

 

Eustace

 

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Guest Eustace

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Re: Opening html file etc.

 

On 2007-07-14 15:12 Eustace wrote:

> On 2007-07-13 17:23 PA Bear wrote:

>

>> A1. Is IE7 installed?

>

> Yes. The issue seems somehow to be connected with the Adobe Reader 8.1

> update. The other reply helped me solve it.

>

>> A2. What programs, fer instance?

>

> I use Adobe Reader 8.1, WordPerfect 12, and the Freelang Dictionary

> 3.7.1 (http://www.freelang.net) together on a daily basis. What I do is

> use the Greek-English dictionary to find words from the Adobe Reader,

> and then use the WP Writing Tools dictionaries to find any words I

> didn't find at the Freelang dictionary. After finishing, I click the X

> of the WP writing tools to close them, and then the X at the top right

> of the window to close WP. When I do this, Freeland also closes

> simultaneously, while normally I'd have to click the X of its Search

> words window and then the X of its main window. It has been happening

> almost regularly for about a week now. Weird. I did not think there was

> any way to close 2 different programs simultaneously in Windows anyway,

> unless of course you turn off the computer, but obviously it can happen.

>

> It's more of an annoyance, since after closing WP I would also close

> Freelang, but it's not right and I am worrying that something is wrong

> with my computer.

>

> BTW, Freelang has an Automatic Clipboard search feature, so when I copy

> a word within the Adobe Reader, Freelang automatically finds the word.

> Sometimes also Windows brings the Freelang window on top, but usually

> that does not happen.

>

> Eustace

 

Is there any way to have Windows make a log to see what's going on? This

peculiar behavior is more or less reproducible if I follow the same

sequence of actions, though not in every case. -Eustace

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