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• Mongsreturn I can't believe most Windows users don't know how to use toolbars, OMG.

  This is most irritating. Almost all of Windows users in my company don't know how toolbar works. They don't know they can enable toolbar, take out toolbar, customize toolbar, and not even the simplest of all, move toolbar around. Toolbar is so simple, standard, and flexible. And yet, they don't know how to use it. And now, I think that's the main reason why IE7 doesn't support moveable toolbar, and that pisses me off even more. Argh. Sigh, sometimes you think one thing is so trivial should be easy enough for users to use. Sometimes you think it is a standard, but a lot of poeple still don't know how to use it. Just like the Bigger Triangle Button for play, I still see people ask this dumb question, &q ...Show All

• ooboyle Vista/IE7 spawns new windows when Office 2007 is installed (unlike Office XP)

  I have an application written in VB6 which uses the webbrowser control to render MS-Office (and other) documents. I have migrated that application to Vista and VB2005 but am running into a problem in that it appears that when Office 2007 is installed, Office docs will no longer embed and render in the webbrowser control (this is probably true of the IE6 version also but haven't tested). Instead, the webbrowser.navigate method spawns a new instance of the appropriate viewer application (e.g., MS-Word 2007). This problem did not appear until I upgraded Office XP to Office 2007.  Other file types like Adobe PDF continue to embed and render in the browser, as before. Since the functionality and value of this application ...Show All

• aditi shah invoking download dialog box upon clicking on a link

  Hi, I am preparing one html file which contains link to trx files (test results file generated by VSTT). These trx files are present on a local share. When I click on the link I want either to open the file in the devenv or pop up the dialog box to download the file. Currently file is getting opened in IE only as a XML file which I don't want. I am more interested in first option: "That is by default file gets opened in devenv after user clicked on the link." How can I do it -Aaryan Hi Aaryan, It sounds like the format is XML so IE will recognise that mimetype and try to open it as XML. If you register the filename extension for .trx for devenv to open then it should use that app ...Show All

• Lili Gao Zune and the iPod

  I've been following the Zune announcements fairly closely here at work. If you follow my blog, you'll see that I'm pretty passionate about media technologies, and recently went through the pain of migrating away from iPod/iTunes and onto Yahoo Music/Gigabeat S (Portable Media Center). Here the blog category where I talk about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/category/13772.aspx Now Zune is in the mix. It looks pretty neat, but I'm not sure if people are really going to go for the whole WiFi thing. I'm just not sure that I want to listen to the same music as the person sitting next to me on the bus. What do you think Not that it answers the question of availability, but there are EB Games and Gamestops in the US.& ...Show All

• Ted. access to details of HTTP error messages?

  Regarding Un-Friendly Error Messages, Microsoft's Knowledge Base article KB218155 says: *** KB218155 *** In IE5 or later, http error messages are stored as a resource of the Shdoclc.dll file. When the error message is received (by IE) it is replaced with a corresponding HTML template, which can contain any of the following types of information: ? Information about the problem. ? Information about how to correct or work around the problem. ? A link to the previous page. ? A link to Internet Explorer support page. ? A link to the same page so you can try connecting to it again. ? A link to a copy of the page from the cache (if an Application Programming Interface (API) is created). *** end KB218155 *** Here's an example for an HTTP &q ...Show All

• cuberice Access is denied when accessing the document property of the frame object

  It works fine on IE6, but throws the exception "Access is denied" on IE7: document.frames["someFrame"].document... Somebody knows why could you tell me whats solution are you founded, please I have the very same problem: document.frames(trFrame.id).document.body; Access is denied. You must have XP SP2 installed. Check this site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889407 Hi, No, I did not find any solution. Actually I did not spent much time on this problem. But I am still interesting in it I have XP SP2 and all updates till today. The link you sent is about IE6, not 7. Anyway thank ...Show All

• Fraser Putnam Windows Desktop Search 3.01

    I'm please to announce the general availability of Windows Desktop Search 3.01 Overview Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements. WDS 3.01 installs on Windows XP and Window Server 2003, but is not needed for Windows Vista since the WDS component is already included in Vista. Windows Desktop Search 3.01 helps you to find, preview, and use your documents, e-mail, music, photos, and other items. The search engine in Windows Desktop Search 3.01 is a Windows service that is also used by applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007 to ...Show All

• MoPatel A little help for a little context menu extension

  Hi, I made a simple extension, which gets the url pointed by a link...it works perfectly...however, I'd like to make it work also with the url which is pointed by an image... I've set Contexts at 22, but this code doesn't work if in a web page there is an image pointing to a url...this is the code I've used at the moment: <html> <SCRIPT> var shell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application"); shell.ShellExecute("IE4RC.exe",external.menuArguments.event.srcElement,"C:\\Program Files\\RemoteCalendars\\IE4RC\\"); </SCRIPT> </html> What should I change in order to get the url which the image is pointing to Thank you!! LastHope No, unfortunately it doesn't work as I expected...mayb ...Show All

• Cwilson IE7 Crashes for Unknown Reasons

  I have been getting IE7 crashes on a regular basis, on two different computers, after upgrading. Can't replicate the crashes, because they don't occur all the…but the info from the Event Viewer follows: On a P4–3.4E GHz computer with XP Pro & all current updates: “Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.5730.11, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00018fea.” On Centrino 1.83 GHz Dell Inspiron6000 with XP Pro & all current updates: “Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.5730.11, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x61df7730.” Extremely annoying...so much so that I may go back to IE6. Anyone have any ideas ...Show All

• imj IFrames don't always work in IE6

  Hi all! I have a pretty strange problem with Iframes in IE6. The page that is having the problem is this one: http://www2.morsoe.com/dk/Garanti/Garantiregistrering/ The page is used for registering the customers products with the manufactor. The page is maintained in MCMS and the registration-form itself is retrieved from http://morsoegaranti.gr3.dk/frontend/default.aspx in an Iframe. That also worked fine, but it seems that it is causing problems now. The Iframe won't load - you have to right-click and select "update" on the iframe to get it to work. But if I copy-paste the IFrame into a new blank HTML-document, it works fine - everytime. Anyone know what is causing this When the site was launched in spr ...Show All

• TheViewMaster Indexing mail in Outlook

  Hi, this is done when Outlook is open ... but when i don't open Outlook when i start my computer it feels like WDS reindexes and because my outlook is not open index is deleted and when i want to search i have to first redo the index ... why can't WDS save old index files and use them hope you know what i am asking. Regards, Miha Now that i have installed WDS 3.0 i don't have this problem any more so i guess that my issue is solved. thank you for your answers! What version of Outlook are you talking about Can you check your event log for any error messages from WDS (which may shed some light to why the index is recreated). Email is only in ...Show All

• Steve Wash Possible logo for the upcoming zunephone

  you guys will most likely not like this at all, but its something that came to me when i was watching television. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/dephy/zunephone.jpg Hi there, Made this for ya just for fun... http://www.alastairq.co.uk/zune.png Regards, Alastairq What does this have to do with Windows Software Development Idea's ...Show All

• Bruce Bukovics API in 3.0

  I am finding that API calls (which worked in 2.6) are now failing in 3.0. 1. Is there a new API for 3.0 Does ISearchDesktop still work 2. How does one determine which is installed February came and went, where is the SDK There is an API, but as of yet no SDK. It is apparently (still ) on track for late February 2007, per the sticky post here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1152841&SiteID=1 MSDN has an API reference now: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx and it looks like ISearchDesktop isn't in the list of interfaces, but perhaps it's just not complete, or 3.0 will expose this 2.6 interface. ...Show All

• -Sam- OneNote 2007 Beta

  I have Office 2007 B2TR installed. I recently installed OneNote 2007 B2TR and every time I open OneNote 2007 it crashes. I have tried this on multiple computers and I get the same result. Would you please let me know what I can try to do to make it work or where I should look for more informaton Thank you. No, Windows XP Service Pack 2 This may be a bit weird, but, I am a first year law student and I my computer recently crashed.  In recovering my hard drive, my MIS dept was unable to recover any of my applications, to include the OneNote Beta version that I have been using since August to take class notes.  I am hoping that anyone who has the beta version ...Show All

• dakota367 New MSDN BHO Article - Building Browser Helper Objects with Visual Studio 2005

  I have built a BHO based on this article and it works great, but I cannot deploy it to machines that do not have Visual Studio 2005. It won't register and I have fixed all the errors that Dependency Walker showed. Has anyone else had problems deploying Murph The same problem here: I coded a BHO (in c#) and I want to run it on other computers. And I cannot. I mean, it runs, but not completely. In any computer without Visual Studio, my BHO runs partial. I have a lot of MessageBox.Show - to help me to understand what's happened in a computer that have no development tools installed. The green code never executed - and this is good, because that code means exceptions - cached errors The blu ...Show All