toddzilla
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:16 PM
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I'm by no means a newbie, but i'm having a problem with windows and have no idea how to solve it.
When i click on some web links, windows erroneously points those links back to the desktop instead of reading the url information within a link. For example a streaming video will download and then show an error that it can't find the file, and give a link to it on my local machine instead of the web address. This also happens with torrent files and a few others that i can't remember at this time.
i've come up with nothing on the web becuase i'm unsure what syntax to search for the error under.
help!
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| GAspnes
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:20 PM
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| 1. OS, browser, (versions), site name |
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The usual suspects. Can't arrest someone without a few clues.
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| WannaJumpMyScooter
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:24 PM
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| 2. and have you tried all the obvious, like restarting... refreshing desktop |
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opening the url in a different way... et cetera?
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:31 PM
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| 3. Hey! You're not a computer genius! |
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:42 PM
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| 4. No, but I play one on TV. |
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Sun Dec-19-04 11:50 PM
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No reason we can't all just get along.
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Mon Dec-20-04 12:03 AM
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| 6. Cool. Of course we have no more information from the originator |
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which, would be a bit helpful, don't ya think?
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Mon Dec-20-04 12:14 AM
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| 7. naw, check out Dilbert |
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Dilbert sitting with two marketing droids.
Marketing droid (male): We didn't include engineers in the product planning because .. um .. because
Marketing droid (female): Because we were art history majors in college.
Marketing droid (male): Pa-r-r-r-rty!
Marketing droid (female): How soon can you build the cloak of invisibility?
Marketing droid (male): Let the man think, Clover.
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Mon Dec-20-04 02:41 PM
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| 10. Yeah, aint that the truth? |
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Mon Dec-20-04 12:32 AM
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www.getfirefox.com
see if that works
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Mon Dec-20-04 12:37 AM
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It might be that you dont have the right kind of player... sounds kinda like it is downloading to your desktop, then erroring out saying "cannot open file C:\Documents and settings\toddzilla\desktop\dirtymovieI shouldntbedownloading.asf or something...
:-P
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Mon Dec-20-04 11:38 PM
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believe it or not it was something really stupid.
My browser cache folder was full as i had set it really low.
duh.
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Mon Dec-20-04 11:52 PM
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| 12. nevermind - i shoulda jumped to the bottom |
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Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 11:54 PM by steely
my original answer: not sure I understand the problem completely - but if I do, you just might have so much stuff in this folder (Temp' I'net file folder) that it could prevent certain things from opening smoothly.
google along these lines to verify
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