Vista can't find file butimmediately does so!

This seems to be unique to Firefox; IE and Safari don't do it - but it's
Firefox I want to use!
In Vista click on any .htm file - Box appears: "Windows cannot find
'D:\file.htm'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again" and
a ping sounds - The .htm file immediately opens and the box remains until its
OK button is pressed. Very irritating! So how to stop it?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:58:02 -0700, joxy

>This seems to be unique to Firefox; IE and Safari don't do it - but it's
>Firefox I want to use!

OK...

>In Vista click on any .htm file - Box appears: "Windows cannot find
>'D:\file.htm'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again" and
>a ping sounds - The .htm file immediately opens and the box remains until its
>OK button is pressed. Very irritating! So how to stop it?

Is that exactly what it says, i.e. "D:\file.htm"?

If so, what (on your PC) is the D: drive? CD? HD? LAN? USB?
Is there a file.htm there, perhaps a hidden one?
Does your av logs show such a file being "cleaned"?

My guess is that some Firefox integration is looking for that file,
and that smells malware-ish. What's the home page set to, within
Firefox? This could be malware from a CDR or USB stick as D:, or it
could be an innocent side-effect of having opened an .HTM from a CD in
D: in Firefox and somehow setting that as the home or search page.

Is Firefox set as your OS's default browser?

Did you open any HTML files off anything in D: ?


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Thanks again cq!
D:\file.htm is just an example.
D is one of six partitions on two hard drives; the same applies to them all,
D through I.
file.htm could be anything else .htm
Opening any .htm on any partition by clicking its name produces an
irritating ping and the box containing the message "Windows cannot find
<file name and address>. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try
again". The required file then immediately appears, but the box remains and
has to be closed before any other operation is possible.
Firefox is the default browser, and the home page is set to blank.