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• Raphael Pina Windows Desktop Search component crashes every time when shutting down XP

  After starting shutdown of my computer I allways get a system message that says something like "wds_sl.exe is not responding".  After I press enter key in the system message window XP continues with the shutdown. Sometimes I get 2 or 3 such system messages. ----- I installed Internet Explorer 7 (Release Candidate 1)  and  after the installation I noticed that wds_sl.exe has stopped crashing on shutdown. Matt, I uninstalled and reinstalled version 3 something, fresh from the site and that seemed to fix it. Alternatively, you might try removing MSN Toolbar with search, if it is installed on your system. I also did this at the same time. hope that ...Show All

• rick_james Windows desktop search - no results

  I've just downloaded Windows Desktop Seach, and it has indexed around 51 000 items. I've checked all my settings several times, and all seems OK according to the Help Menu. But whenever I type in a Search word, I get a message saying Search Complete - no items found. At the beginning, I did not ever get a message saying installation of the programme was completed. And I wasn't asked to reboot. Do you think that it may be that the programme was not correctly installed (Web search works fine - get directed to Google Search, with results listed.) I have the same problem... I've previously posted about the strange behavior of WDS (all versions) with German lang ...Show All

• LukeRogers15 Problems with Dash

  Thanks for your time! I'm using WDS 3.0 I've encountered a problem envolving the dash character(-). The company I work for uses the dash character in their file names and folder names. I've worked around the issue of the dash in the file name by wrapping the file name in quotes in my query string. However the dash in the folder name appears a bit more challenging. The index doesn't appear to include the files contained in folders with dashes in their name. Can you help ...Show All

• Jignesh Vyas Firefox 2

  Yay! firefox 2 is being released at 8pm today!! Hooray! just thought i would let you know... Catching up I'm not going to argue with that; in a Microsoft forum arguing on behalf of Firefox isn't going to get me far, this forum is stocked with loyalists. Tar and feather them! Yes, i'm using the last RC and works good :) That's an interesting observation. Most websites are designed to be IE compatible. It's not a great situation for 3rd party browser vendors, who might have functionality that would make a richer experience. I think in terms of User interface, and in my opinion, IE7 and Firefox are pretty much on par. If this is truly the case, you wonder why people should want to have two different kinds of browsers ...Show All

• Dave Edelman How to reteieve "My document" after re-install WindowsXP?

  Dear All, I re-installed Windows XP. Please advise how I can open files stored on "My documents" of previous WindowsXP of user account "VL". When I open "C:Documents and Setting\VL\My documents", message "Access denied" is displayed. I still remember the password of this user account. Thanks at advence. VinLui Thanks Dear Andrew, Many thanks for your advice. Which forum is the right one I log on user "ABC" with "Administrator" rights, as I forget the password of Administrator. I still get the same message. Please advise again. Thanks at advance. Vinlui ...Show All

• Jimmy_fingers WDS 3.0 Final: Exception occured while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "srchadmin.dll""

  Hi again, I got this, too! I've seen a few threads here relating to this issue, although the thread starters often used the Beta versions. I get this problem when I click on the File Types tab in the "Advanced Options" I tried: REGSVR32 SHELL32.DLL and sfc /scannow No dice. I uninstalled the program, and reinstalled it. Same problem. And even worse, all my SIX taskbars disappeared! Argh, I have four rows of icons on my taskbar, and now I have to set up everything again. This will set me back an hour. (yeah, I know it's a big taskbar... But I am running four monitors, the main one at 2048x1536!) Any news will be welcome! Thanks! Thank you very much for ...Show All

• matthew lyden How do i edit the index list

  I want to be able to search for C# ,, C++ etc is there a way to edit the words that wds indexs (using WDS 3.0) Bruce, Are you wanting to make sure you index source files like ".c", ".h" and ".cpp" or are you wanting to specifically be able to pick up the term "c++" in a document or e-mail In the advanced options for WDS there is the ability to include and exclude certian file types. By default, .c and .cpp are indexed though. Being able to pull out words specifically like "C++" and "C#" really depends on what ifilter is being used for the given file type. Are you seeing file types that have C++ in them and search isn't picking it up ...Show All

• Acanthus IE7 RC1 window.close() issue

  We have a web application that we are currently testing with IE7 RC1 in order to be ready for the release of IE7. We often open new browser windows using script (i.e. window.open()) but have found that whenever we attempt to close the child window using script (i.e. window.close()) we are prompted with the message "The webpage you are viewing is trying to close the tab. Do you want to close this tab " We do not have this issue with IE6 and have not yet been able to track down the reason for the issue in IE7 RC1. I understand that you cannot close a browser window through script that has not been opened with script. But in our case, we are opening the child window with script. Can anybody tell me the circumstances under w ...Show All

• Dave Calkins How do I access Document object for a remote IE browser window?

  Hello- My company submits financial information to an accounting firm every month via a secure web site html form. This html form is quite long, and I would like to write an application that will automatically fill in this html form with the financial numbers which I can programatically pull out of our database. I imagine that the way it might work is that I navigate to this web page in an IE window, and then run my custom app to populate the form. I assume that I will need to access the IE Document object to do this. My question is: How do I retrieve this IE Document object from another app I understand that there is an IE toolbar API that has access to the Document object. However, I would preferably like to develop the app as a ...Show All

• DaveMich ActiveX Modal Dialogs do not work in IE7...

  Our product is suffering some pretty severe problems because of IE7. We've starting getting calls that dialog windows become hidden. We've heard this is a threading issue. We found out that the problem is actually much worse. Modal dialogs don't seem to function correctly in IE7. You can recreate the problem using VB6 by doing this: 1. Create an ActiveX UserControl project. 2. Add a form to the project (form1) 2. Put a button on the user control (usercontrol1). 3. Add this code to usercontrol1. Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim objForm As Form1 Set objForm = New Form1 Call objForm.Show(vbModal) End Sub 4. Build the project as an OCX somewhere on your hard drive. 5. Find your control's CLSID in regedit. I ...Show All

• sunil_sg Windows live one care

  I Just installed windows live one care on my new Vista PC, and for some reason i was unable to access shares folders and printers on the vista box from other XP worksations. After uninstalling one care along with a reboot the vista workstation was accesable within the workgroup. Just to let you all know watch out for access denied when trying to connect to a shared resource on vista with windows live one care. ...Show All

• RS2007 Email From OneNote - No Background

  In previous versions (prior BTR2), when I sent a page using the email button, a copy of the background that is displayed one the OneNote page was sent with my ink overlaid. Since the upgrade, there is only the ink appearing in the email and not the background. Is there a way to have the page background sent in the email. I use word documents as a background image and "fill in the boxes" etc. but now only the ink is being sent. ...Show All

• pfh IE 7 opening to Run Once page with error on it.

  I downloaded updates last week. I have been using IE7 for a while with no problem. I dwnloaded the updates. Now when I open my browser the page tries to go to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx . There is an error reported for this page and it will not open up I get a blue screen. How do I eliminate this I have my home page set in the tools section but when opening it won't go to my home page until I hit the home button on the tool bar. Me too!!! Any updates I am also getting this same error - its just very annoying now No I have not tried another user. I can and then I will download it again and reinstall it. Thanks. What ...Show All

• Stoj Will IE 7 supports Q tag/element?

  Hi, I'm curious about this Q tag after I read this article: Long Live the Q Tag ANd it's quite interesting that the article is true! I have Firefox 1.5.0.6 installed and I get the example <The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog> right and with quotes. But on IE 6 and IE 7, I can't get it right. I can't see the quotes anymore! Is IE 7 will support this Q tag is important to me, since it's closer to semantic context than using blockquote. Can I get more explanation on this I can't find elsewhere even on MSDN IE team blog. Eriawan Guys, I haven't had answers for more than a week. Where else can I ask about this matter As in fact, there's no clear roadmap about many bug fixes a ...Show All

• Djalma Rosa dos Santos Filho Create Word Documents from IE

  I have a series of HTML input forms designed to create a form letter to be opened in MS Word. How is this typically accomplished I would like to also set the default directory, filename, and document type (.doc). Hi Dave! I have a similar problem: I need to generate a report in ASP.NET (C#) and save this in MS Word 2003. But I could save it on the server and send a link to the user to download the .doc, so access to FS is not a problem actually. But I'm pretty new to it. Could you help me on HOW to do this Thanks in advance. Hello Dave, Thank you for your reply. I am exploring methods to allow the customer to open the HTML generated content in MS Word.  I currently have the option ...Show All