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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2008Windows 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 Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some information which might help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_ 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>  SignatureLittle Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ > 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Jill SignatureLittle Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ > Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some > information which might help: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > 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 >> 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> >> Jill >> Are you are using Firefox as your default browser? If so, here's some >> information which might help: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > 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) SignatureLittle Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo Blog: http://littlemonstermusings.blogspot.com/ > 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > 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 >> 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 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > 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_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_ 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 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 On Feb 19, 2:54 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> 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 [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > Jill Note to Divamanque: I know where you're coming from re GeekSquad (been there, done that, in FL) and from my personal experience I would search and find some dude who independently does PC work on his own as a sideline to make $. I had a great guy who lived several 'burbs away from me in FL named Warren....he was great, nothing did not get fixed when I sent my tower to his house by a friend who also used his services. He always sent me a long letter describing exactly what he had done (which I never understood a word, it was all geek jargon/solutions) and was quite reasonable in his charges. I was sure sorry to lose Warren when I left the state for good. I've run into a few around MileHigh. Not sure where you are these days but it can't hurt to sniff around for someone like that, best referred by friends.... > 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! :) >> 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???? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > :) 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 > 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. >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. I suppose Ubuntu is the easy Linux distribution du jour. Inspire also is supposed to be easy for people used to windows. I've got Slackware on the other partition on this computer. Slackware has the distinction of being the longest running Linux distribution still in production. Slackware is for people who are used to Unix. :) Bud > I suppose Ubuntu is the easy Linux distribution du jour. Inspire also > is supposed to be easy for people used to windows. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bud Yeah, Ubuntu is playing hard on their reputation for being easy to install. Having the different flavors (edubuntu for educational uses, etc) probably helps them quite a bit as well. Of the few really early distros I remember (as in pre-1.0 kernel), Slackware is the only one still around. Their install isn't too bad today, compared to when doing a full Slackware install involved creating then loading some ridiculous number of 3.5" diskettes. Something 50, or 70? Today's "for extreme Unix geeks only" distro seems to be Gentoo. That is one non-user-friendly install process. >> I suppose Ubuntu is the easy Linux distribution du jour. Inspire >> also is supposed to be easy for people used to windows. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Today's "for extreme Unix geeks only" distro seems to be Gentoo. That > is one non-user-friendly install process. It really is easy to install. We've got Ubuntu running on one of our machines. It's easy to use and the interface is similar to the Windows environment. kili >> 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???? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > :) 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? >>> 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 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > nearly any PC you buy nowadays comes with Windows already loaded, what > can most of us do? Reformat! :~) kili > 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? Unfortunately installing Linux is still just a little bit more involved than most people want to tackle. Perhaps one day the major stores will offer PCs with Linux without having to special-order it. |
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