From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ShellExecute failed Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:51:04 -0400 Organization: disorganization Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <004c01c49ab1$77c33ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095274317 19746 80.91.229.6 (15 Sep 2004 18:51:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 15 20:51:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7esX-0001ln-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:51:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C7eyA-0006Y0-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C7exr-0006SM-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C7exo-0006Rf-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C7exn-0006RU-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C7es7-0005NL-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7es3-0006ud-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.112.236.6 ([198.112.236.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 198.112.236.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:51:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.112.236.6 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jqMgFKH8QIFdfRJNoDEmC5IrfEQ= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27146 Hi Benjamin, > * Benjamin Riefenstahl [2004-09-15 18:56:34 +0200]: > > Sam Steingold writes: >> firefox > > When I last installed Firefox on Windows, it left some DDE-related > stuff from IE in the file association entries in the registry. This > lead to similar behaviour when double-clicking some URL shortcuts in > Windows Explorer. > > Check your registry entries for "http", ".html" and/or whatever the > actual file type is called and delete the DDE stuff. indeed, removing HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\ solved the problem. thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k If abortion is murder, then oral sex is cannibalism.