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 3)

Corky_O

on Jun 06, 2005

Would be interested in what you find.

I use PSP8 at work for publication image editing, and saw some issues with loading images a couple of months ago.

The explorer shell would crash when PSP8 hung.

It seems to have fixed itself, though I would not be surprised to find out Windows Update changed something in dealing with .jpg files - especially with the security issue exposed in the last year.

Sorry, no advice to offer outside of reassociating with the windows picture and fax viewer, then trying an uninstall > reboot > delete sub-directory > reinstall (very basic stuff). Both you and yraq are well beyond my skill level, and I have not heard anything in regards to PSP - will post if I do.

Jafo

on Jun 06, 2005

Corky ....hi...

Nah....still no luck...uninstalling/reinstalling, etc...no go....it's specifically an issue with PSP....cos associating the files to PS Eliments gets them to load into PSE as you'd expect. Only trying the same thing in PSP...at the moment....does not work at all....not without selecting the image twice....

NightTrainthedark

on Jun 06, 2005

Jafo, I have recently run into a similiar problem. If I click on an image , PSP opens but the image doesn't open. The same thing happens if I choose..open with...PSP opens but no image. I close PSP and I get a message about the program causing an error and it closes. I only add this because it just started happening and I haven't made any significant changes as of recent. No problems with photoshop, it is definatly a PSP issue. If you do find anything out, please post it.

I will do the same.
If I open PSP and then browse to open a file, everything works fine.

BTW, PSP 7.

Jafo

on Jun 06, 2005

Master Apprentice Night Train ...yes, you have the same issue....though mine is PSP6.

A problem shared means two people are frustrated....

NightTrainthedark

on Jun 06, 2005

and stumped.

yrag

on Jun 06, 2005

....a coalition of the befuddled.

werewolf

on Jun 06, 2005

I know it's not PSP, but maybe related???? MS Photo Editor will not open a dbl-clicked file if the file has a blank space in the name, like 'blank space.jpg'. Will your PSP open a single word file?

NightTrainthedark

on Jun 07, 2005

I know it's not PSP, but maybe related???? MS Photo Editor will not open a dbl-clicked file if the file has a blank space in the name, like 'blank space.jpg'. Will your PSP open a single word file?

File name doesn't matter. MS Paint works, Photoshop works, PSP does not work.

Jafo

on Jun 07, 2005

File name doesn't matter. MS Paint works, Photoshop works, PSP does not work.

Wot he sed...

NightTrainthedark

on Jun 07, 2005

In a desperate attempt, I tried a system restore and that seems to have fixed it. I went back about 2 weeks, the day before something called SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION SERVICES was installed. Still trying to find out what that is. The last thing I remember changing was an update to stardock central ( I think that was more recent though ) but who knows these days what got through the door. Might have been msn messenger related as well. Hope it helps, I am still in the dark at the moment.

jebland

on Jun 08, 2005

I think Software Distribution Services is "Windows Update". If that is correct, probably one of the Microsoft patches caused the problem.

Jafo

on Jun 08, 2005

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

jebland ....Post #30 .....

Jafo

on Jun 15, 2005

Following on....merrily....

Yet another Doze update has UN-broken the association....it now works.

Meanwhile....

Drive Image 7 has stopped.

This is a 'bigger' issue...as it's a necessary proggy, unlike a simple 'association'.

Seems I have joined the ranks of those-pissed-off-with-Powerquest-now-Symantec .....

Corky_O

on Jun 15, 2005

I would suggest Ghost, but.........

Glad to hear you got PSP back to gravy.

Jafo

on Jun 15, 2005

Ghost 8 or 9, whatever, is just a re-badged Drive Image 7 ....Symantec bought Powerquest.

Just means it's [currently] a waste of money....having a proggy that has ceased to function.....stopped 10 days ago....probably the .net framework or some other damn MS update....

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