Opening html file etc.

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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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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
 
[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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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
 
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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It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation
http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html
 
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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