Yet another Microsoft annoyance
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If you right-click a file in Windows Explorer, one of the Send To options is "Compressed (zipped) folder". I did this, then attempted to send the zipped file as an attachment. It wasn't there. Unbelievably Outlook would not show me the zipped file in the Insert File dialog! After wasting some time trying various approaches, I googled and found the solution here: http://outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20050526.htm[^] You have to DISABLE compressing files with zip in order to attach them to email with Outlook! Then you have to re-enable it to zip the next file! This is incredibly crappy even for Microsoft. Using Microsoft products is like driving on a freeway with speed bumps.
Suspect install - works fine (and has been for some time) on my XP - is this a vista thing perhaps? Then again, I tend to zip, then drag n drop onto the mail.
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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Add this one to the list. We all know UAC is good for us, developers should use it all the time to build better applications, etc. etc. I swear I'm trying. So in my little normal user account on my little WinServer08 machine I try to set an user environment variable that is used to set some paths in a C++ makefile: right click on My Computer, Properties, Advanced System Settings, the UAC pops up, I login as an Administrator, add the variable, confirm, logoff, logon. And the variable's not there. Perfectly logical: it has been added in the user variables of the Administrator account I used to access the Environment Variables dialog! So I had to check the mighty Google, and finally found the registry key under which I could manually add the entry. Vista/Server08 is full of these stupid things. To get the visual effects like mouse shadow etc. I had to make a registry diff with a Vista machine, because these visual settings are in the same window that is used to change system things like the Paging File settings. I really wish Microsoft will take it right next time and that Vista is a transition OS.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
Perfectly logical: it has been added in the user variables of the Administrator account I used to access the Environment Variables dialog!
[scratches head, with a single finger for exaggeration] So you're saying the only way to create a user variable for a regular user is to write directly to the registry? :doh: I use my Vista laptop at home for music, browsing and AoE3. I am suddenly glad I develop on XP at work.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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If you right-click a file in Windows Explorer, one of the Send To options is "Compressed (zipped) folder". I did this, then attempted to send the zipped file as an attachment. It wasn't there. Unbelievably Outlook would not show me the zipped file in the Insert File dialog! After wasting some time trying various approaches, I googled and found the solution here: http://outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20050526.htm[^] You have to DISABLE compressing files with zip in order to attach them to email with Outlook! Then you have to re-enable it to zip the next file! This is incredibly crappy even for Microsoft. Using Microsoft products is like driving on a freeway with speed bumps.
Outlook really is the ugly duckling of all the office suite. Like a sloppy lean-to against a nice house.
Semicolons: The number one seller of ostomy bags world wide. - dan neely
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
Perfectly logical: it has been added in the user variables of the Administrator account I used to access the Environment Variables dialog!
[scratches head, with a single finger for exaggeration] So you're saying the only way to create a user variable for a regular user is to write directly to the registry? :doh: I use my Vista laptop at home for music, browsing and AoE3. I am suddenly glad I develop on XP at work.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
I really hope someone smarter will correct me, but AFAIK that's the only way.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Outlook really is the ugly duckling of all the office suite. Like a sloppy lean-to against a nice house.
Semicolons: The number one seller of ostomy bags world wide. - dan neely
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I really hope someone smarter will correct me, but AFAIK that's the only way.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Am I being stupid or aren't there two lists[^], one for system wide and one for user specific ones? (Note this is a Vista screenshot, I've checked and it's the same under Windows Server 2003 R2 so I can't imagine things being different on 2008, don't have access at the moment). [edit]It is the same under Windows Server 2008 - just tried a Test Drive on Microsoft's site[/edit]
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
modified on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:57 PM
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Am I being stupid or aren't there two lists[^], one for system wide and one for user specific ones? (Note this is a Vista screenshot, I've checked and it's the same under Windows Server 2003 R2 so I can't imagine things being different on 2008, don't have access at the moment). [edit]It is the same under Windows Server 2008 - just tried a Test Drive on Microsoft's site[/edit]
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
modified on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:57 PM
I don't have an explanation ready, just take a look at this screenshot. It's in Italian but just note the name in the dialog. I'm sure no one of us both is crazy :)
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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You've never used Project have you? :omg: :wtf:
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
you just gave me fever nightmares.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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You've never used Project have you? :omg: :wtf:
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
Not properly, not since that time back in '95. :~
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1.00/5 (1 vote) Wow! Apparently the MS devs who created this little annoyance are CP members!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: P.S. Not that it absolves MS from this blunder, but you may be the 1st person I've heard of who actually uses MS integrated ZIP "tools". :~
you may be the 1st person I've heard of who actually uses MS integrated ZIP "tools"
LOLZ. I occasionally use it (only when I'm too lazy to open WinRAR). But one thing I've noticed about it is that it takes like 10x longer to unzip things... especially when there's a lot of small files. For example: If you have 1000 files in a 5 meg zip, and use MSZIP, it will probably say "3 minutes remaining," compared to WinRar, which would have it done in about 10 seconds!
"Silently laughing at silly people is much more satisfying in the long run than rolling around with them in a dusty street, trying to knock out all their teeth. If nothing else, it's better on the clothes." - Belgarath (David Eddings)
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you just gave me fever nightmares.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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1.00/5 (1 vote) Wow! Apparently the MS devs who created this little annoyance are CP members!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: P.S. Not that it absolves MS from this blunder, but you may be the 1st person I've heard of who actually uses MS integrated ZIP "tools". :~
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Apparently the MS devs who created this little annoyance are CP members
Doubt it, but maybe. I think the solution was really lame. I've never seen that problem myself. I think something like that wouldn't have gone 8 years unaddressed... :laugh:
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Add this one to the list. We all know UAC is good for us, developers should use it all the time to build better applications, etc. etc. I swear I'm trying. So in my little normal user account on my little WinServer08 machine I try to set an user environment variable that is used to set some paths in a C++ makefile: right click on My Computer, Properties, Advanced System Settings, the UAC pops up, I login as an Administrator, add the variable, confirm, logoff, logon. And the variable's not there. Perfectly logical: it has been added in the user variables of the Administrator account I used to access the Environment Variables dialog! So I had to check the mighty Google, and finally found the registry key under which I could manually add the entry. Vista/Server08 is full of these stupid things. To get the visual effects like mouse shadow etc. I had to make a registry diff with a Vista machine, because these visual settings are in the same window that is used to change system things like the Paging File settings. I really wish Microsoft will take it right next time and that Vista is a transition OS.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
We all know UAC is good for us, developers should use it all the time to build better applications
Most developers completely miss the meaning behind the UAC. We're not supposed to 'use' it to make better programs. We are supposed to realize that we have been violating admin rights in our software by requesting elevated privledges. But you are right, MS messed up, almost none of us learned what has been echoed for the last 10 years. We've been messing up, the UAC is a symptom of our failings as programmers.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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If you right-click a file in Windows Explorer, one of the Send To options is "Compressed (zipped) folder". I did this, then attempted to send the zipped file as an attachment. It wasn't there. Unbelievably Outlook would not show me the zipped file in the Insert File dialog! After wasting some time trying various approaches, I googled and found the solution here: http://outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20050526.htm[^] You have to DISABLE compressing files with zip in order to attach them to email with Outlook! Then you have to re-enable it to zip the next file! This is incredibly crappy even for Microsoft. Using Microsoft products is like driving on a freeway with speed bumps.
C:\> cd \windows\system32
C:\windows\system32> regsvr32 /u zipfdlr.dllProblem solved.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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Not properly, not since that time back in '95. :~
Did'nt inhale, right? Uh-huh.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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C:\> cd \windows\system32
C:\windows\system32> regsvr32 /u zipfdlr.dllProblem solved.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]You're missing the point. After you do this the "Compressed (zipped) Folder" option DISAPPEARS from the Send-To menu. You then have to enter: "regsvr32 zipfldr.dll" to reenable it. That was the point of the original post. You've solved nothing.
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*bows* fhatgn
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
dan neely wrote:
fhatgn
:confused::confused::confused:
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You're missing the point. After you do this the "Compressed (zipped) Folder" option DISAPPEARS from the Send-To menu. You then have to enter: "regsvr32 zipfldr.dll" to reenable it. That was the point of the original post. You've solved nothing.
Not at all. Unregister the built-in crap, install WinZip. You get much better control over the zipping process, and you can actually treat the ZIP files as files which you lose with the built-in stuff.
Software Zen:
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
We all know UAC is good for us, developers should use it all the time to build better applications
Most developers completely miss the meaning behind the UAC. We're not supposed to 'use' it to make better programs. We are supposed to realize that we have been violating admin rights in our software by requesting elevated privledges. But you are right, MS messed up, almost none of us learned what has been echoed for the last 10 years. We've been messing up, the UAC is a symptom of our failings as programmers.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Don't misunderstand me, I love seeing my applications fail when they mistakingly write a log file to the Program Files directory. I love it because I have catched a bug earlier, and in the process I learnt one thing the hard way when the soft way (read: studying the docs) was not enough. I think that leaving UAC active, unless forced by technical reasons, is the right thing to do. I'd probably like also a switch to disable folder and registry virtualization, at least I could predict the exact behavior in the set [ works, fails ] instead of [ works, fails, maybe ]. UAC is not required to write good software, but good software respects UAC: keeping it enabled may be helpful in the development progress. Unless the OS does not believe predictably, like my rant was trying to express and its followups clarified.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Not at all. Unregister the built-in crap, install WinZip. You get much better control over the zipping process, and you can actually treat the ZIP files as files which you lose with the built-in stuff.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Interesting workaround. I'll try it.
