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Soooo … none of that worked.

I am using Firefox. It’s my main browser. But I wondered if it was also happening on other browsers.
Chrome works fine.
Internet Explorer works fine. (By that I mean that Google serves up results in English on Internet Explorer, not that the browser itself works fine!)
Firefox … still serving up French results.

Since Firefox is the only one on which I am signed in to Google, I began to wonder if my settings had been maladjusted. When I checked them, it told me I had it set to English (United States). So why does Google serve me French results?
I was signed in to another account as well. I checked the language settings there and nothing was set. So I set it. Twice: English US, and English UK. Still showing French.

I logged out of both accounts and Google served up English results. WTH?

I logged in again – to both accounts – and now I am getting English results.

No idea what happened. No idea how long this “fix” will last. Very frustrating….

Hey Y’all,

I’m not trying to tweak anyone here but merely to point out that you need to read carefully when reading technical information.
Here is a direct quote from the KB article in post #1:

FYI: This is definately the pot {me} calling the kettle black! 😆 :cheers:

Hey RG, thanks for admitting you’re an offender, too! I can definitely say I have “skipped” things like this in the past. However, after looking at the KB in question, there is nothing outside of that note that indicates 16=unlimited, so I definitely would have read that note, if it were there. The KB says it was last revised August 30, 2011. I posted my original help plea on June 12, 2011. I am certain that note was part of the revision added after I had read it.

To ninasky: I just highlighted 50 songs and hit Enter. All opened in WinAmp. I have never had another problem with this issue since editing my registry, as per the instructions above. You said you did the edits and it worked. Then it didn’t work again. Please review the spelling, etc of the registry edits you have made and be sure to reboot. If it still does not work, please include more details of the problem for the brilliant folks who look at this forum. They can’t help you if you just say “it doesn’t work”. Because it does work.
Thanks and good luck!

Under the Details tab it tells me the Name is
Mail recipient.MAPIMail
Under General tab it says Type of file is
Mail Service (.MAPIMail)
And Opens with
Unknown application.

I am too chicken to install WLM 2012, lest I lose all my emails. Too much trouble to back it all up. And it’s just not that important. As Ken says, it didn’t work for him anyway, so I am thinking I would be further frustrated, having gone through the whole process to have it not work.
I am wondering if there is a workaround. I know there are ways to add things to the context menu. Is there a way to somehow add an entry that sends photos directly to WLM instead of SkyDrive?

Medico: I run updates all the time and have never been offered WLM 2012. I just went to the Microsoft site and it is not there. The latest they have is WLM 2011, released 3/22/2012. Same version number I already have, 15.4….
How do I get the 2012 version? Maybe it’s only available for Win8?

Roderunner: I wasn’t asking for the best method to send pictures. I was asking how to disable the link to SkyDrive.

Thanks!

Thanks BruceR that worked. It’s a little more involved than I was hoping for, but quicker than rebooting! It’ll have to do.

I think that may be an Access Control List issue. What you need to do is to Take Ownership of the folder
This Vista Forum Tut (don’t worry it works on Win 7) will add an item to your right click menu to do just that ===>>> https://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/112795-context-menu-take-ownership.html

Well, that didn’t work. 🙁
I installed the Take Ownership thing and I can use it on the folder or on pictures, but I still get the warning popup message.
I was hoping I could take that off with a batch program of some sort, but I guess not.
Thanks for trying!

Stickboy,

I find it totally amazing that so many people could answer your post and not one of them came even close to flaming you.

Being a thoughtful gentleman, I will try my best to give you a perspective that you may or may not have considered. If it comes over as a flame, it is completely unintended and I would beg your forgiveness in advance.

I am sure some people will take your post as a flame and respond in some sarcastic way. This may sound sarcastic, but it’s not meant to be. (Yes it is.)

As someone who has been unsafely operating a computer connected to the internet for only 17 years, I wholeheartedly apologize for constantly bringing down the internet and crashing everyone else’s computer.

Probably the reason nobody bothered to flame me is because the folks on this forum are not a bunch of children with nothing better to do than pick a fight about nothing. People here genuinely want to help other computer users.

HOWEVER, as one who has to share the same World Wide Internet with you, may I humbly suggest that yours might not be the most responsible usage of this shared resource.

I put it to you that, although you call my computer practices unsafe, I do know a thing or two about safety and security. I feel I must remind you that you are sharing the interweb with millions of people – not just me. 🙂 I suspect a great percentage of them are far more unsafe than I. If this is a worry for you, I humbly suggest you exercise your right to opt-out of the internet, because you are not going to stop people from doing stupid and dangerous things with their computers with a few well-placed posts on forums.

Just sayin’. 😉

Swampster:

I think you are flaming Stickboy, despite the fact that he makes sense. Look, if I want to open a program, that’s what I want to do. I don’t need my computer continually asking if I’m sure that’s what I want to do. That’s a waste of time. Now, if it scanned the program and warned me that something doesn’t seem right, that’s a much different story.
Frankly, when I get the usual “are you sure” cautions, I quickly click it. There is no delay to “rethink” what I am about to do. Those pop-ups are a totally useless annoyance

Mel

Where’s the Like button? This is exactly what I am saying!

Thanks NW2222. I hadn’t clicked the link in BruceR’s post because I figured it was more info on the Group Policy Editor, which I didn’t have. Having read it now … it still didn’t help. I tried messing with the Registry, but mine did not have the entries listed, and I really didn’t understand what I was doing.
So I downloaded the registry patch you listed and that worked. Thanks!

Of course, it only works on future downloads. I don’t suppose there is any sort of batch program that can Unblock everything on my hard drive? lol Wishful thinking, I believe, but I have to ask! Most of my images are fine, but every once in a while I run into a folder that has blocked images. (I believe this is a result of transferring files from my old computer to my new one, though you would think it would affect all the files, not just some.) Would be nice if I could unblock them all at once, or just run a program to scan my hard drive for blocked files and unblock them. Dangerous, I guess.

With regard to the Windows Attachment Manager – I still don’t understand why it protects me from files downloaded via Chrome but not Firefox. Is it because Firefox is my default browser? That would be odd, since the article seems to indicate this behaviour would be normal for Internet Explorer. (I never tested what happens with IE, since I never use it.)

With regard to the Group Policy Editor … is there no way to simply download that as a standalone? Or some other free utility? I have recently heard of a free program (forget the name) that is basically a Windows 7 version of TweakUI on steroids. I don’t really have a lot of complaints about Windows 7, but I do like to have full control of my computer.

The irony lies in your very last sentence. Because the fact of the matter is that those computer users who don’t know the previous bit are unable or unlikely to be careful. Those of us who do know the previous bit are already careful enough and don’t need our hands held.

One of the first things I do on a new Windows installation is turn on extensions for all files. The way Microsoft has the default is just plain dangerous. But at least they have a popup to tell me when I am opening an image file….:huh:

Still not seeing the danger in an image file….

My point about the zip file is that it can contain a malicious exe file, which is not warned about, where the image file is being warned about.
I actually find Windows handling of zip files to be quite confusing. Am I opening the file or just unzipping it? I never know what’s happening. So I use PeaZip.

Appreciate the tip about the image settings, but when I went there it was already set as you suggested, with no exceptions.

Furthermore!
I just downloaded an exe file with Chrome. As expected, I got the popup message when I tried to run it.
Then I downloaded a zip file with Chrome and it opened without the popup message. Aren’t zip files considerably more dangerous than jpg files? Yet Chrome warns about jpg files but not zip files….
Inside that zip file was an exe file. When unzipped, the exe file ran without the popup message!
Soooo … yeah. Please tell me how to turn it off!

I strongly recommend leaving this protection in place. While you are aware of downloading specific files and have assessed their potential for danger, there are other cases where you might be unaware that such a think is happening. You could innocently or inadvertently click on something that causes an exe file to be downloaded and run. And then you are had! But if you leave the protection, this scenario causes a popup, which leads to a “???” moment, which leads to you disallowing the app to run. Better that than being infected by a virus.

Also, the protection is enabled by setting a flag on the file. It would appear that you have either a plugin or setting in Firefox that is turning the flag off automatically (things I downloading Firefox have the flag and ask me for permission). I suggest you not do any web browsing with Firefox (unless you can find the setting or plugin involved) and stick with Chrome.

Actually, it’s things like this that push me to not use Chrome. I am not an idiot. If I click on something, it’s because I want it to open. I understand the need for certain protections across all installations of Windows. But now it’s mine and I want to customize it so it’s usable and not stopping me every time I try to do something. It is the reason I have UAC completely turned off. And it is the reason I want to get rid of this stupid popup. Image files don’t hurt! I am not randomly clicking on exe files. And even if I were, my anti-virus would protect me. Twice, in fact: it scans all downloads and it scans all programs when try to start them. I don’t need a popup asking me if I want to open an image!
Think of it this way: I just downloaded an image. Now I want to open it. If there is something malicious about it, how would I know? This popup does nothing! Yes, I want to open that file, because I just double-clicked it. The message doesn’t scan the file, and it doesn’t warn me it contains a virus. It’s simply a popup that is telling me what I am doing. I already know what I am doing. I can’t imagine there is anybody who will say no don’t open it. So the message is pointless. And I want it gone.
So instead of telling me to find the flag in Firefox and reset it, how about telling me how to find the flag in Chrome and unset it?
Thanks!

Did an experiment. I downloaded the exact same image from the same website using Firefox, then using Chrome. The one from Firefox opened fine. The one from Chrome popped up the little message. So I guess this is a Chrome issue, then? Should I just re-install using the Administrator installation thingy? Or is there maybe some setting that got discombobulated on the last update?
(Windows tells me I don’t have gpedit.msc)

I don’t use any other security software (firewalls, anti-malware, etc) just Avast. I have been running Windows 7 like that for over a year with no issues. I do use NoScript on Firefox. And Windows Defender updates every time I check Windows Update, but I have no idea if it is running, how it runs, when it runs, how it works, etc. I did use it momentarily, with the little icon in the tray, but the icon no longer shows up there, so I assume it’s not running….