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Windows error when opening a web page from start run

By on Monday, November 26, 2007

I’ve been getting an annoying dialog box that pops up whenever I tried to open a web page from the start/run or my address bar in windows. The dialog box would say “Windows cannot find . Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.”
I’ve just kept clicking ok (or ignoring the dialog box) and the page would load anyway. Today I found out from the mozilla bug database that this is normally caused by AdBlockPlus, an extension to assist in hiding adverts but in my case it turned out to be AdBlock – the original version. I removed adblock, installed the latest version of adblockplus and everything is working again.

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  1. Bryan Price

    Two computers, two different fixes for me. Both are running Adblock Plus.

    On the one, the upgrade did it’s magic. Then again, I never ran into the problem on this one.

    On the other, I had to in and turn off the DDE as described in the article. That did the job.

    Good catch! (although I was like you, I just ignored it on the one)

  2. Wladimir Palant

    This was an issue with one single Adblock Plus version and it was fixed after a few days. “Normally caused by Adblock Plus” is non-sense, somebody seeing this problem now has pretty sure nothing to do with Adblock Plus.

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