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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:16 PM
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computer geniuses...
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 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:20 PM
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1. OS, browser, (versions), site name
The usual suspects. Can't arrest someone without a few clues.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:24 PM
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2. and have you tried all the obvious, like restarting... refreshing desktop
opening the url in a different way... et cetera?
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GAspnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:31 PM
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3. Hey! You're not a computer genius!


:P
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:42 PM
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4. No, but I play one on TV.
Is that close enough?
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GAspnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 11:50 PM
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5. Oh sure

No reason we can't all just get along.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 12:03 AM
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6. Cool. Of course we have no more information from the originator
which, would be a bit helpful, don't ya think?
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GAspnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 12:14 AM
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7. naw, check out Dilbert
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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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:41 PM
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10. Yeah, aint that the truth?
LOL, I love Dilbert
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leftyandproud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 12:32 AM
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8. use firefox..
www.getfirefox.com

see if that works
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KTM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 12:37 AM
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9. Hmmm
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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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 11:38 PM
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11. sorry...
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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steely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 11:52 PM
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12. nevermind - i shoulda jumped to the bottom
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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