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Error Opening HTML File on Desktop
Name: Terry Date: November 3, 2003 at 05:23:12 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Dell
Comment:
I am trying to open up an HTML file on my Desktop and I am getting the following error "Windows can not find ........ . Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search ....."
It allows me to go into the file so it can find it but I get the previous erroneous message first. More than anything it is a nuisance and annoying. HELP!
Name: BurrWalnut Date: November 3, 2003 at 06:53:09 Pacific
Reply:
Have a look at the HTML in notepad. There is a simple error in it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Terry Date: November 3, 2003 at 17:41:34 Pacific
Reply:
BurrWalnut,
It is happening in all of my HTML files so I doubt if it is file specific.
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Response Number 3
Name: terry Date: November 4, 2003 at 01:51:09 Pacific
Reply:
The weird thing about my error is when I have an internet window open and I try accessing the HTML file on my harddrive the error doesn't happen but when I don't have the Internet session open I get Windows can not find c:\....\file.html. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search ....."
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Response Number 4
Name: BurrWalnut Date: November 4, 2003 at 07:58:07 Pacific
Reply:
It must be an option then. I can't remember where but the wording is something like "Show IE on the desktop...."
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Response Number 5
Name: terry Date: November 4, 2003 at 17:47:55 Pacific
Reply:
<<It must be an option then. I can't remember where but the wording is something like "Show IE on the desktop....">>
Any HTML file on my hard drive in addition to my Desktop has this problem. It is not a shortcut to an HTML file on the web on my desktop which is giving me the problem.
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Response Number 6
Name: BurrWalnut Date: November 5, 2003 at 06:32:21 Pacific
Reply:
I can't think of anything else, it must be something simple.
Could it be as simple as HTML files are not associated with IE? Just to be sure have a look in Folder Options, File Types.
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Response Number 7
Name: nyyankyfan Date: November 9, 2003 at 17:52:07 Pacific
Reply:
<<Could it be as simple as HTML files are not associated with IE? Just to be sure have a look in Folder Options, File Types.>>
Nope, not that either. That is the first thing I checked. It's more of a nuisance than any thing else. The weird thing is when I am viewing a webpage on the internet using IE it's fine but when I view an HTML file I designed on my C-drive that is when I have the problem but when I already have a webpage open and then open the one on my C-drive I don't get the error message. WEIRD.
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