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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
Anyone else here running Windows Vista? There's something that is annoying
the crap out of me and I haven't found a way to "fix" it. When I click to open a link in a post (or email) I get an error: "Windows cannot find [whatever the URL is]. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some
information which might help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_er...file_-_Firefox The Vista information is at the bottom of the page (look for the heading "Registry Edit"). Hope this helps. Nadia (and Kotyo) P.S. I had the same problem in XP, but at least in XP you don't have to edit the registry to fix it. So nice of Microsoft to remove the "File Types" tab from the Folder Options dialog in Vista. One more reason I'm not upgrading to Vista unless I absolutely have to. /end Vista rant -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ jmcquown wrote: Anyone else here running Windows Vista? There's something that is annoying the crap out of me and I haven't found a way to "fix" it. When I click to open a link in a post (or email) I get an error: "Windows cannot find [whatever the URL is]. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
"Nadia N." wrote in message ... Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some information which might help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_er...file_-_Firefox The Vista information is at the bottom of the page (look for the heading "Registry Edit"). Hope this helps. Nadia (and Kotyo) THANK YOU! That fixed the problem nicely Fortunately I'm comfortable editing the registry (and BTW, if you ever have to do it, rename rather than simply delete the entry and it's subfolders, it's much safer that way). Jill jmcquown wrote: Anyone else here running Windows Vista? There's something that is annoying the crap out of me and I haven't found a way to "fix" it. When I click to open a link in a post (or email) I get an error: "Windows cannot find [whatever the URL is]. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
"kilikini" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: Anyone else here running Windows Vista? There's something that is annoying the crap out of me and I haven't found a way to "fix" it. When I click to open a link in a post (or email) I get an error: "Windows cannot find [whatever the URL is]. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill I get a similar problem and I use OE. It always defaults to res/blahblahblah.c:/kili type stuff. I just figured it's because I re-installed OE instead of using Windows Live Mail. I'll have to research it. Thanks for bringing it up, Jill. kili See Nadia's reply to my post (below): "Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some information which might help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_er...file_-_Firefox The Vista information is at the bottom of the page (look for the heading "Registry Edit"). Hope this helps. Nadia (and Kotyo)" It fixed my problem. I wasn't getting misdirected; Vista just told me it couldn't find the URL but it did find it and opened it. But the error was annoying me. I never encountered the problem on the PC running XP at home (I've used Mozilla Firefox as my default browser for a few years now). Jill |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
jmcquown wrote:
"Nadia N." wrote in message ... Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some information which might help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_er...file_-_Firefox The Vista information is at the bottom of the page (look for the heading "Registry Edit"). Hope this helps. Nadia (and Kotyo) THANK YOU! That fixed the problem nicely Fortunately I'm comfortable editing the registry (and BTW, if you ever have to do it, rename rather than simply delete the entry and it's subfolders, it's much safer that way). Jill You're welcome :-) I hope your dad is better, and that you're not missing Persia too much. Being mostly a lurker, I don't post very often but I read the group every day, and my Kotyo purrs for everyone who needs it. He's been purring for you and your family. Nadia (and Kotyo) -- Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
jmcquown wrote: Anyone else here running Windows Vista? There's something that is annoying the crap out of me and I haven't found a way to "fix" it. When I click to open a link in a post (or email) I get an error: "Windows cannot find [whatever the URL is]. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? When you find out, let ME know! I keep getting all sorts of error messages that make no sense, and are not consistent! Last time I had a technician in, I used "Geek Squad" because the guy I used to use is in California and I no longer am. I ended up $129 poorer, and so far as I can tell, he did nothing to solve the problems I was having! (If anything, they're worse.) Jill |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop
telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill I'm afraid this suggestion won't be much help to folks who are really dedicated to Windows, but my favorite way to deal with Windows problems is to download a CD image (ISO file) from debian.org, burn it to CD, boot off the CD, and install Debian Linux. No more Windows problems! |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
Daniel Mahoney wrote:
BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill I'm afraid this suggestion won't be much help to folks who are really dedicated to Windows, but my favorite way to deal with Windows problems is to download a CD image (ISO file) from debian.org, burn it to CD, boot off the CD, and install Debian Linux. No more Windows problems! OK, Dan. Why Debian? Is there something special about it vs. other distros? Don't do Linux yet and am looking for a reasonably easy distro to use on one of the spare 'puters. Since it's OT, you can email me here if you prefer (addy isn't munged). Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
OK, Dan. Why Debian? Is there something special about it vs. other
distros? Don't do Linux yet and am looking for a reasonably easy distro to use on one of the spare 'puters. Since it's OT, you can email me here if you prefer (addy isn't munged). Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe Any Linux distro would work well for her, but I find that Debian's apt-get mechanism works quite nicely for installing new packages and doesn't have nearly as much of a tendency to get lost in a dependency-hell as RedHat or Fedora have. Ubuntu is also a quite nice distro, but I find that their manipulation of the apt packages tends to introduce more of a dependency problem that the Debian distro it's based upon. I work for an ISP with a user base approaching 100,000. Of our 60-some servers, all but four run Debian. |
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Windows Vista Annoyance (OT) HELP?
Daniel Mahoney wrote: BUT IT DOES find the URL and opens it! Anyone know how I can get it to stop telling me there's a problem when there isn't a problem???? Jill I'm afraid this suggestion won't be much help to folks who are really dedicated to Windows, but my favorite way to deal with Windows problems is to download a CD image (ISO file) from debian.org, burn it to CD, boot off the CD, and install Debian Linux. No more Windows problems! You realize you're speaking Greek (or is that "geek"?) to us non computer types, Dan! I have no loyalty to Microsoft in ANY of its guises, but when it seems to be the universal PC operating system, and nearly any PC you buy nowadays comes with Windows already loaded, what can most of us do? |
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