WaltS48 wrote:
On 02/06/2016 05:39 PM, Larry S. wrote:
A big Thank You to all who helped solve the problem with my wife's
computer:
Ed Mullen
David Ross
Jonathan N. Little
Frank-Rainer Grahl
David Durgee
Mark Bourne
Philip Taylor
Daniel
You all contributed to one extent or another. This clearly shows the
value of this news group--I can't imagine a better resource.
Here's how we resolved it, with pieces from many of you (seems simple
once we really understood it).
It all started when we set up her "new" profile in her new computer,
copying same from a backup copy.
The first observation is that SM is installed and working, except that
we get the error message. Seems that SM is trying to do what it is
told, in three instructions:
(1)The file named in the error message is listed in Browser
Preferences in the box defining "Home".
(2)The Browser preference also says to display the Home page when the
browser opens.
(3)The Appearance preference says to open the Browser when SM starts.
Thus, SM is told to try to open a file that does not exist.
Two other clues: the "ini" file doesn't have an "ini" suffix, and the
"bookmarks" file doesn't have an "html" suffix. In both cases that
nevertheless is what they were (a belated discovery).
So, eventually we changed the Home box in Preferences to point to her
correct Profile, which did include the html file, restarted SM, and
voila!, fixed. SM starts on her Bookmarks page, and all is well.
Thank you all again. What a great (and patient) group!
Larry S.
Well the "ini" and "html" files do have suffixes, but they were hidden.
Show or hide file name extensions - Windows Help -
<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions#show-hide-file-name-extensions=windows-7>
Thank you, Walt. The actual files are on my wife's Windows 10 computer
(can't find such a thing as Control Panel). In any case, it's odd that
some of the files do have suffixes, and others (including these) do not.
We had to look at the contents to determine what they were.
Larry S.
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