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 2)

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

Nope...every time I change it it forgets and next time I load to edit it it has reverted back to as the screenshot....doesn't remember the change...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

I'm wondering if PSP is using OLE instead of DDE...hmmmmm...try deselecting DDE and see what happens..

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

&open 'sticks'...but the settings don't....ergo the image still doesn't load...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

OK...one more question....what version of Windows are you using?

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

XP Pro...with SP2.....but this error is only recent...nothing to do with the SP2, etc...

Gonna reboot after resetting associations in PSP...and see if it's pain free now...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

That's what I thought. We're so old that those folder names appear normal to us (as in DOS). They should be in long file name format. Type in the actual path and see if that does the trick. Something changed that format...a PSP update or some other recent graphics proggie. You do either of those by chance?

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

Other recent Paint proggies...like paint.net ....that's about it...graphics-wise.

BTW...rebooted...and it reverted to settings as in the screenie....just has '&open' now instead of 'open'

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

full path didn't help

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

Re-opening the association window and it's reverted to the shortened naming...

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

I'm running out of ideas....check both PSP and Paint.net settings and make sure you don't have conflicting associations. Make sure there's no 'default' file folder setup in either. I assume that no jpg images anywhere on your drive are working correctly, right? Try creating a new image in both proggies and see what they do.

yrag

on Jun 04, 2005

Re-opening the association window and it's reverted to the shortened naming...

....at least something is working.............

Jafo

on Jun 04, 2005

This reverting back to previous settings is 'odd'....my only theory left is that I'm only setting the associations in Explorer the file manager...Explorer the shell is not actually loaded.

Perhaps it's needed to make the changes 'stick'...

PurrBall

on Jun 05, 2005

Explorer the shell is not actually loaded.

Perhaps it's needed to make the changes 'stick'...

There's a good chance that it does need to be loaded...

Jafo

on Jun 05, 2005

There's a good chance that it does need to be loaded...

Meowy .... you 'could' defer to my longer experience with shell alternatives....this is the eighth year ....and the FIRST time I've struck this error...yet have installed and run LS on every WinOS since '95 and have used PSP on all them from v3 to my current [6] and it was just fine even on this OS install....which has run error-free for over a year.

I've installed MOST apps in that eight years while in LS....and the registry, paths, associations have been just fine.

Jafo

on Jun 05, 2005

OK....latest story....dumped back to the Exploder shell....tried to set associations via edit "$1", etc ...all of that....works the first time....closing PSP and trying again fails.

Set associations in PSP via it's config....failed.

Set associations to PS Elements ....worked just fine....loading PS.

Reset to PSP....failed.

Uninstalled PSP and re-installed....set associations in the proggy .... failed.

Latest theory is....PSP6 config associations has been 'broken' by a recent Doze Update .... sometime in the past 2 weeks.

Regedit doesn't do it...

File associations through Exploder doesn't do it...

File associations in PSP doesn't do it....

It's a trivial 'error' or 'bug' but like any of them....damn annoying in their invidiousness....

BTW....only 2 proggies now on the comp that deal with images....PSP and PSE ...[and Paint].

Reg-hack has always been in place to ensure faxviewer doesn't steal the associations....been using the hack since day one of XP...

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