October 4, 2009 at 11:38 pm (Web Surfing)
Tags: clicking does not, does not respond, does not work, facebook, facebook chat, facebook firefox, facebook slow, firefox, firefox chat, firefox facebook, not working, plugin, skype, slow, unresponsive, work, working
If you have installed the Skype application on a Windows machine, and you are a Firefox user, most likely you have noticed the Skype plugin in action.
Skype adds “functionality” to firefox by basically rendering phone numbers in web pages into special little buttons that communicates with Skype in order to make a call directly from that web page.
I have had numerous problems with certain web pages, and not ordinary problems, either. Some issues more obvious than others, coupled with the fact that I had many other plugins installed in Firefox, it took a while to realize that some pages had been freezing and acting oddly due to the Skype plugin.
This warning pertains to the plugin that ships with Skype version 4.1.0.141 – it may apply to others.
It made Facebook virtually unusable, as chat sessions would freeze, and the browser would not respond upon any simple clicks on navigational links from the rendered page in Facebook. Other sites may suffer from the issue.
To check whether this Skype plugin is affecting your firefox session, go to Tools > Addons > Plugins, and try disabling the Skype plugin, restarting firefox, and then checking if there is a difference. If there is, then you know what to uninstall.
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July 16, 2008 at 5:21 am (Microsoft Applications)
Tags: 32-bit, 64-bit, hotmail, live mail, live photo gallery, live writer, msi installer, msn, server 2003, vista, windows live, windows server, wlinstaller.exe, x64
If you are one of many who have tried installing the Windows Live applications (Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, etc.) using the WLInstaller.exe file on Windows Server 2003 or perhaps a 64-bit version of windows which I have no personal experience with, you will have probably gotten the following error message:
“Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, or Windows operating systems earlier than Windows XP Service Pack 2.”
or
“Windows Live programs can’t be installed on this operating system”
It is not that Windows Live programs “cannot be installed,” it is just that the folks at Microsoft who decreed such a thing made a stupid move. That’s surprising… Apparently, there is not sufficient application testing on these “unsupported” operating systems, and so they decided not to release it for them period.
Feel free to skip down to the uploaded MSI set up files if you do not want to know the knitty gritties.
On a “compatible” XP SP2 machine, WLInstaller.exe smacks relevant set up files and logs in
C:\Program Files\Common Files\WindowsLiveIntaller\MsiSources
NOTE: WindowsLiveInstaller was (sneakily) made a “protected operating system [folder]” so you would need to change this under Folder Options…View, Show Hidden Files and Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
Finally, browse over to the MsiSources folder and voila.
I am surprised there is not more accessibility to these set ups, or at least ease in finding them. Any how, I hope someone benefits from these. Enjoy.
**EDIT**
It has been a while since I updated this post. It has come to my attention that my uploaded files were no longer online for some reason. At any rate, since then, Microsoft introduced these applications as a part of their “Live Essentials” package. The same issue as described above still exists to some degree, but Microsoft finally made an “offline” installer available at the following link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/F/4/0F4D43A7-8D47-4312-BC35-EC1F888AC156/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Just let me know if this doesn’t work for you and I will make sure to upload it somewhere.
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