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A Rather perplexing problem

Postby predatorhack » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 5:25 am

Hello, To start off I'm a rather advanced user. I have a class in collage that I'm required to do, Its a Windows XP training class, SAMXP2007 something rather. Anyhow irrelevant. There is a lesson on this CD that I cannot get past, and that is where the problem is:
Every time I try to pass a certain screen it will launch an IE, the file it is opening is on the CD, it is a XML File. It will not only open once, but an infinate amount of times. I cannot do anything else while this is happening. And it won't stop untill I've closed out of the class program. My guess is that someone has failed to code correctly and has made an infinite loop of opening IE. I need to get some ideas on how to make IE GONE until I'm able to finish this class or make the XML file on the CD that IE is opening one thousand times unaccessible. The things I've tried. Changing the XML file association so that it would open in Paint or something else. Didn't work. I tried looking for a way to block the file in IE, You can't block local files apparently. I've tried setting the proxy to 0.0.0.0 port to 80 but that didn't work either because its not accessing the internet to get to this file its simply opening the XML file from the CDROM. I can't take the CDROM out of the drive during the lesson or it will crash the program. I would really like someone to give me some idea's to try. I'm running out of time and energy to fix this problem. *I'd get rid of IE all together if it wasn't for some other users that refuse to use anything but IE*. Thank You for any assistance in Advance. Feel free to message me at any time if you have ideas regarding this issue in MSN Messenger hi_2k@msn.com
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition, and its IE7, I have the OS Completely updated, along with the browser.

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*Edited to change some Spelling Errors*
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Postby Don_HH2K » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 6:58 am

If you absolutely don't need to have IE open for anything else, one idea I have is to create an infinitely-looping batch file that would kill Internet Explorer processes as they're created:

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:begin
tskill iexplore
goto begin


To break out of this, hit Ctrl+C.

Given, it's far from a clean or convenient solution, but [tt]tskill[/tt] should execute fast enough that IE processes won't be given much time to begin loading.
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Postby Fulvio » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 11:53 am

A minimum of two spelling errors left. Otherwise, what about right clicking on the shortcut icon, of the CD, and select Open with something other that IE. I don't know if this works (in my case, some files open how I want, others don't open at all), but I would try. Whatever is on the CD seems to be hard coded to open with IE, and, occasionally, I run into this.
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Postby PaulD » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 2:32 pm

I haven't tested this, but try turning off the 'Enable' of IE in 'Set Program Access and Defaults'.
See [sdp=92546]here[/sdp] if you are not familiar with this.
Edit: Oops: just noticed that you are on Vista. I don't have that handy, but I believe that the location (how to access) is different; check the right portion of the Start menu. But the name is the same.
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A rather perplexing problem

Postby predatorhack » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 2:33 pm

Actually I've tried setting Paint.exe as the default xml program to open the file but it still opens in IE, Its not the file itself that I"m opening, the program I'm using for this XP Class opens it for me, but not once, it never stops. That didn't work since the program automatically opens it with IE and not paint like I've set the default association too. That was my first idea :P

I really like the Batch file idea Don. I'll give it a try and keep you posted. Now on that batch file is that going to make it so that I cannot do anything else with my computer or is it going to run silently in the back like a hellbent - revenge thirsty ninja killing everything IE?

Thank You!!!
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Re: A rather perplexing problem

Postby Don_HH2K » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 6:14 pm

predatorhack wrote:I really like the Batch file idea Don. I'll give it a try and keep you posted. Now on that batch file is that going to make it so that I cannot do anything else with my computer or is it going to run silently in the back like a hellbent - revenge thirsty ninja killing everything IE?


Hopefully the latter; [tt]tskill[/tt] is pretty lightweight.
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