Windows cannot find "(null)"

Published on June 3, 2005 By Jafo In Personal Computing

Lately, when dl clicking on a file...eg a jpg .... Paintshop Pro loads...but this error pops up. Then I dl click on the file again and it'll load.

This is using Explorer Plus....but Windows Explorer is the same.

I'm assuming I have a service stopped that cause the error....yet dl clicking on a doc file loads word just fine.

Any ideas?

Google didn't help as any refs to the error appear to be different issues or system-wide...

Comments (Page 1)

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Sounds like your .dll service, but just for the hell of it, open Folder Options/File Types, scroll to the JPG entry and make sure " "%1" is at the end of the 'Open With' string. You can just re-associate the file type and accomplish the same thing.

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

[open("%1")]

that's the DDE message in the open action for the filetype....

It does load PSP .... but it doesn't load the image into PSP...not until you double click the image once more...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

that's the DDE message in the open action for the filetype....

That's not all that's written there, is it?

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Just how of curiosity...what icon is represented for your jpg files........

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

Also...if I get to the reassociation dialog...'open with'...always use this proggy...while right clicking on an image...eg 'pic.jpg'...the PSP loads but the error then becomes 'windows cannot find c:\[whatever]pic.jpg'....

...so I'm no better off...again PSP loads without the image...

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

the psp6 icon....as you'd expect...

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Change the association to something else....Paint or something...and see if it opens correctly. If it does, then the error is with PSP (since it shows the PSP icon and other associations work (Word), my guess would be that's where the problem lays.

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

OK...shall give it a go....

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Wait a minute......I just saw #7.

Action: &Open
Application used to perform action: C:\progra~1\Paints~\psp.exe "%1"
DDE Message: delete entry
App and Topic are correct.

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

Ah...Eureka....that's got it.....worked for jpg....but I guess I need to do this each time for other associated types as well...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

You got nothin' better to do anyway..........

.........I love happy endings

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

nope...doesn't remember the settings....goes back to that dde on the end

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

I should click on the 'use dde' radio button and deselect it?

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Leave everything as it was, but put the "&" before "open"........that should stick....and work.

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