Windows Error Message

[Harold Fromm]

I've been using Firefox for two years and it's up to date to this minute. I
am on DSL. Starting yesterday, when I click on an icon on my desktop the
leads to one of my frequently accessed wesbites, I now get an error message
in a red box that begins; WINDOWS CANNOT FIND followed by the name of the
website in question. But two seconds after this message appears, the
"unfindable" website appears. When I am through using the website and log
off, the Windows error message is now visible once again and had to be
clicked off.

Earthlink/Qwest DSL may be having problems for the past few days in my area
(according to their support site) but when I engaged in online chat with a
technician, he said that was not the problem.

I have run the very latest Ad Aware and Spybot, done the Norton System Works
scan of registry and whatnot, cleared the Firefox cache and history. Where
the hell has this message come from?

H.F.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've been using Firefox for two years and it's up to date to this
minute. I am on DSL. Starting yesterday, when I click on an icon on
my desktop the leads to one of my frequently accessed wesbites, I now
get an error message in a red box that begins; WINDOWS CANNOT FIND
followed by the name of the website in question. But two seconds
after this message appears, the "unfindable" website appears. When I
am through using the website and log off, the Windows error message
is now visible once again and had to be clicked off.

Earthlink/Qwest DSL may be having problems for the past few days in
my area (according to their support site) but when I engaged in
online chat with a technician, he said that was not the problem.

Try here: HTM/HTML Fix for Windows XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/html_association_fix.zip

and here
EXE and LNK Fix for Windows XP - Line 12
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

By the way, do we know each other? From AEMS concerts?