obi
06-02-2002, 02:56 PM
what Msoft say about how more advanced XP is.
It's not. And I can prove it.
You mayremeber earlier that I couldn't play SWF's. Re-installing didn't work, and you'll never guess how I fixed it -
Well, I had a few SWF's saved as self projecting exe's. This is good as you can play them anywhere but, they are bigger in file size. so I just keep the normal SWF versions.
XP had hooked up its SWF assosiasion with a certain self-projector and when I deleted that, It got itself FUBAR.
I found this out by going into filetypes and looking at all the functions of SWF files. I found the name of one projector in there so what did I do? make a very small SWF, and save it a an EXE, shoved it into a hidden folder and associated it with that.
What is the relevence of this you say?
Well, If a certain file type is not working, no matter what you do, only if you know what you are doing, go into the filetypes area in Folder options and check the file types associations. It may not work due to the fact that the 'file' it was associated with had been moved/deleted/re-named ect. If this is the case then move the association to another file of the same type. Hopefully that should fix it all.
Obi - 1
Msoft - 0
It's not. And I can prove it.
You mayremeber earlier that I couldn't play SWF's. Re-installing didn't work, and you'll never guess how I fixed it -
Well, I had a few SWF's saved as self projecting exe's. This is good as you can play them anywhere but, they are bigger in file size. so I just keep the normal SWF versions.
XP had hooked up its SWF assosiasion with a certain self-projector and when I deleted that, It got itself FUBAR.
I found this out by going into filetypes and looking at all the functions of SWF files. I found the name of one projector in there so what did I do? make a very small SWF, and save it a an EXE, shoved it into a hidden folder and associated it with that.
What is the relevence of this you say?
Well, If a certain file type is not working, no matter what you do, only if you know what you are doing, go into the filetypes area in Folder options and check the file types associations. It may not work due to the fact that the 'file' it was associated with had been moved/deleted/re-named ect. If this is the case then move the association to another file of the same type. Hopefully that should fix it all.
Obi - 1
Msoft - 0