Opening html file etc.

[Eustace]

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

 

[PA Bear]

A1. Is IE7 installed?

A2. What programs, ferinstance?

 

[Ayush]

[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.

 

[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.

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

 

[Eustace]

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

 

[Ayush]

[Eustace] wrote-:

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

You're welcome!

Ayush.

 

[Eustace]

Yes. The issue seems somehow to be connected with the Adobe Reader 8.1
update. The other reply helped me solve it.


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