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[gvag]

Matt & JimH -

I recently had to restore a Ghost backup because of system problems, which I am not attributing to MC, but the backup had MJ8 installed so I had to reinstall MC.

I never run a newly installed program without rebooting and with various MJ8 builds I would get a message that "DDE Server was still running" and I'd have to End Task in order to reboot.  Not only that after rebooting I would have trouble starting IE getting error messages like "Can't find program file..." and I'd have to go into File Types and change the open option for html files.  Instead of 'IE %1" I'd find that the use DDE option was checked and contained a bad open string ""%1",,-1,0,,,," - well I didn't have to End Task problem after installing MC but the "Cannot find..." message came back.  And sure enough so did the bad open string.

I know its something in the MC install that's causing this, because after doing the restore and before installing MC, I was not having the open problem with IE.  And I know that my backup system had the IE %1 for the open method.

Could you please fix this.  

Thanks

gvag

[JimH]

That sounds like a Windows problem.  Can you post your system info by copying it in MC Help and pasting here?

[gvag]

JimH -

Here's my sysinfo:

Media Center Registered 9.0.176 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 998 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1045 MB, Free - 930 MB
Resource Info: System - 47 %, GDI - 73 %, User - 47 %

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping /   Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive I:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive I: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B    Addr: 0:1:0  Speed:4  MaxSpeed:16  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Thanks

gvag

[MachineHead]

I've been getting this as well. On a very new machine...

Started sometime after the 160 builds.

Media Center Registered 9.0.177 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 2129 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 314 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.60 (1021) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1999 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)

Ripping /   Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[gvag]

MachineHead -

I don't know if this applies to XP but after fixing the File Types changes, I was still getting the "Cannot find file..." error.  Most strange beacause in the past this has always cured the problem.  I also noticed that my internet connection was really slow something I rarely see with my cable hookup.

So I decided to investigate further.  Now one of the symptoms in the past was that the error or a variation of it also happened if I openned a local Html file.  I checked this out and no errors occured.  

Just on a hunch I openned up some URLs from my Favorites menu not from the Quick Launch bar and they openned just fine - stranger and stranger.  Next test open up the Quick Launch folder in Explorer and double-click the URLs and the error is back!  Next test - copied the link from the Quick Launch folder to Start Menu/Programs and openned it - no error.   So...

I went to MS update and installed the latest updates for IE 6 then I upgraded Ad-aware from 5.0 to 6.0 and ran it.  It found 2 registry keys and about 40 files that 5.0 didn't report.  One of the keys was Alexa, the other Active... something.

End result Quick Launch is working again and browsing speed seems to be back to normal.  I'm going to step back from MC 177 to 175 the current RC, I've got some weird file import/recognition errors going on and I'm curious to know if 175 has them as well.

I'll report back to this thread if either the "Cannot find..." error comes back and if the File Types setting gets changed.

thanks

gvag  

[gvag]

JimH -

As I said in my last post I'd report back after installing 175.  

Result: No DDE error, no "Cannot find..." error after rebooting.  There is an anomally/bug that exists in both 175 & 177 but I'll put that in a new thread "Import ignores Cover Art folder".

I'll only be installing release versions from here on but before installing I'll be sure to check the File Types and run Ad-aware.  I know this problem came and went with various MJ8 builds so if it resurfaces in MC I'll let you know.

thanks

gvag