[work, windows] wtf

[digitaldiscipline]

anyone have the first idea why changing the active printer in IE7 would make it puke and die.... reliably?

[on the non-work hardware bitch front, it seems that the spare hard drive i'd put in K's machine has gone tits-up out of fucking nowhere. fortunately, it hadn't been doing anything important yet]

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[tylorael.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's a fairly common error. It ran rampant at our law firm and we had to uninstall IE7 and go back to IE6.

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

It happens all the time ... my IT/IS husband keeps trying to warn the companies that he has to work with not to install it; that it is not user-friendly.

from a quick google search

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

Installed IE7 twice. I like the new user interface but on each occasion I discovered that attached printers became unavailable (HP and Epson) because files could not be located. On the first occasion the Master File Table was corrupted (message : C:\$mft is corrupt), and CHKDSK ran on start up but did not restore file. The situation quickly deteriorated and then became system critical. On both occasions I was forced to run recovery console and chkdsk C: /R to restore system. On the second occasion there was no error message about MFT but the printer error was solved by running chkdsk from recovery console. I guess the MFT was corrupt. This software really stinks, it is no good putting out release notes when you are offering free updates through windows XP because it is too bloody late when it is installed.

source: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/microsoft_internet_explorer_70_details_begin_to_leak.html

Also might wanna plug the error into the ms base. best I could get without a specific wording was:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303360

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

You can fix that here (http://www.apple.com/getamac/) I think.
Haven't seen that specific one. But have seen some fun printer stuff here.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

sit on it, you scrawny bald fuck. ;-)

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Would you expect anything less from me?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

you and ross are the token asshole evangelizers for the cult of jobs around here. :-)

if i had a few hundred bucks to blow, a mac mini would probably take up residence at my house. we got one at the office for testing purposes, and it doesn't suck, it just doesn't do anything i want/need

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

lol

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

It's a feature?

I thought I was kidding until I read the other comments, heh.

ie7 has lots of problems

[inyou.livejournal.com]

All the more reason to switch to Mozilla, right?