And Then A Message...

Well, so, I had a bit o’ software to install on the laptop and the desktop. It’s a bit o’ kit for printing to, reading and editing PDF files. In a shell that surrounds a nut, it installed and works seamlessly on the laptop. However, when I installed on the desktop, all went well until that progress bar thingy got to a nano second off completion when one of they much loved Microsoft warning windows popped up with the scary message;   
               IPersistFile::Save failed; code 0x80070002.     
               The system cannot find the file specified.
Bummer. Clicked OK – as you do – and the blue bar completed its journey. Software works okay except for the print function in any program.

Wot to do. Why Google the error message of course and that I did and over the past week or so, of the dozens of ‘fixes’ I found, I’ve tried hundreds. Do the fix, re-boot, re-install the program, same warning, try a print to... Nothing. 

And this morning? It just decided to work. That will go into the folder marked Computer Problems And How I Fixed Them, sub folder, Not a f*****g clue.

This got me thinking. These Microsoft kiddies are damn cleaver{?} with that coding stuff, so cleaver in fact, that when their code encounters a ‘problem’ they’ve programmed in the ability for the architecture to automatically generate a warning message. Now me, just a humble key puncher, would’ve thought all those two-brain fellows could link that detected warning to the next logical box containing the message, ‘Click here to fix this problem’. How hard could that be? Hell, they can even produce talking tin cans you can hold a conversation with!

Typing of programmers, remember the Firefox tabs getting moved up? With FF 65 it would seem some FF script kiddy has decided he didn’t like that so has killed that code  and up they go again. If you want them back below the address bar just replace the code in the file created as per the above link, with the code you’ll find if you pop over here.

It’s waaay longer but you do get the tabs back below the address bar. Until the next time... I believe that code  does more relating to tabs that I haven’t checked at time of typing. I just wanted to move the tabs down.
MODERN WORLD DISCLAIMER – Up to you, your risk if you want to try it. All I can say is it worked just fine for me. Computers? Seems the finishing line is always going to be just out of our reach.

Quote;  Gerald Weinberg.

“If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization.”