If you can no longer open ZIP files or download email attachments...

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Mike Treit [Msft]

If after installing Windows Defender you can no longer open ZIP files or
download email attachments, please send me an email so I can follow up.

Thanks

-Mike
 
Hello Mike,

Thank you, now I can refer the users with the problem related to the ZIP or
e-mails attachments to your address. If is OK with you.

- - - - - - - -
OT. Mike, I notice today the bronze icon next to my name. I 'll like the
person(s) to recibe my gratitud, where I can send my thanks to them. Also can
you explain to my, why the icon don't show all the time (after the first
time) is only curiosite, nothing more. I read long time ago about the 1rst,
2ndo and 3rd. awards, and I don't remeber read about the frecuency, like I
said is no important only curiosity.
Thank you for your time. (Any way, the icon make my feel better ;-) )

(¯`·._.·Еиçеl·._.·´¯)
 
Hi Engel

Congrats on your bronze award - well deserved. On the question of the ZIP
file problem with WD. Just out of interest. Do you happen to know whether or
not this issue is associated with a particular Zipping application,method of
Zipping or both?

Stu
 
Hello Stu,

Thank you for your words.

I'm like you and others, in reference with the ZIP, you know this problem
came with Beta 2, and this (and other problems) are fresh new, hopefully
evrey day learn more, for now we have good helpers from MS, so they can
answer this and more on the precise way. I thikng Mike T. have the right
answer to your question.

Take care and a happy weekend.
Еиçеl
 
Hi Engel

You`re welcome. I just posed the question to you because I sense the MSFT
guys seem to be selective in their responses to questions posed on here.
Quite possibly becauses they either don`t have the answers yet and/or they
are busy. No problem.

Stu
 
Thanks for the URL Bill. Our posts must have crossed in the post - pardon the
pun.

Change of subject. I am going to stick my neck out here. I often wonder if a
lot of the installation and functional issues I see are attributed to bad
practices i.e. not following the basic procedure for installing progs
recommended by the installer - closing open apps etc, etc, etc. I`m running
three MS beta progs; IE7 Preview B2, WD Beta2 and MSN Messenger beta 8 with,
of course, other RTP apps, most of which have been listed on here at some
time or other. While they (the MS ones) are not without developing issues, I
am not, so far, experiencing anything like the loss of functionality of the
applications or my com. That says a lot for the developing skills of the guys
at MS. When you consider todays processors have the architecture to prevent
progs modifying critical operating system data viz. Kernel & User mode and MS
are , in these cases, writing the progs , the only other culprit lies within
the registry - parts of which we know are volatile and can be intolerant of
bad installation practices. I believe when MS reaches a BETA2 product, they
are pretty confident it will generally work and they are not looking at com
crashes involving an installation/reinstallation of the OS or product -
merely a tweaking process by way of the feedback received on here.

Stu
 
Hi Stu
I`m running three MS beta progs; IE7 Preview B2, WD Beta2
and MSN Messenger beta 8 with,of course, other RTP apps,
most of which have been listed on here at some
time or other.
Click to expand...

We have exactly the same discussion within a swedish forum
and all are running the same betas without any problems.

It´s a few users with problems and mostly all of them have
chaotic/messed up PCs. Easily checked with HijackThis.

Several protection program stapled on each other, GB of temp junk,
registry in a mess after numerous installs/uninstalls.

And this solves it !

- Uninstall, every unneeded application. 1 AV, 1 AS 1FW and remove
everything not used.

- CCleaner ;)

- Dial a fix ;)

Done

regards
plun
 
Hi Plun

Greetings from a very cold UK and many thanks for the input - couldn`t agree
more with the resolutions and just what I`ve long suspected. Screwed up PCs
are in many cases the culprits. Guess there are those who will take exception
to this but I feel it has to be said and Bill S. is too polite to say
anything ;)

Stu
 
Hi Stu

We are in a giant snowstorm ;) Damned boring to remove all snow

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,787819,00.html

Well, it´s a challenge with messed or screwed up PCs.

I can understand Bill S and "the MS way" beacuse there is no simple
solution to learn users about all "clutter" and to use 3rd parties
for as a "shortcut".

The clutter is default hidden and as design ;) It´s much easier to
handle a PC without all temporarily clutter which only takes time to
scan.

It would also be easier if all users understands the meaning with
RTP and to only use one RTP shield for each sort of threat.

About the update problem I´m sure this is a Windowsupdate mess.


regards
plun
 
Not so much polite as not really knowing....

I've seen the issue in this thread on my own machine. It is clean in the
sense of temp files and not too much extraneous junk running, only one av,
only one antispyware--but it is old and dirty and chronically strained for
disk space--dirty in the sense that apps are installed on any of three
partitions, depending on where the space was at a given moment, and when
reinstalled, might have ended up on a different one. Every once in a while
I needed enough space to reinstall something, and ended up blowing this away
by hand--I've never cleaned the registry.

I think what's going wrong here can be probably be pinned on somebody.
Since uninstalling Windows Defender seems to fix it for most--Windows
Defender probably is at least part of the story.

I'm still not ready to recommen registry "cleaners" as an effective remedy
for any particular set of symptoms--but I'm trying to keep an open mind.
--
 
Hi Bill

This is different worlds..........

The problem is easily seen within all HijackThis forums.

What a mess and of course it maybe helps to reinstall WD and
and som other kb tricks.

But the major problems isn´t solved beacuse of users that download and
installs tons of junk........;) "Driven by downloads" is every
application, "black or white".

A lot of users also staples protection, 3 RTP Antispyware and so on.
These apps often locks each other as you know.

And carry GBs with temporarily junk which all scanners "hate", also the
user beacuse all scans take so long time.

To recover from a serious hijack takes hours for a normal user.

But maybe it´s better to just get WD working ;)

MS will for sure fix these bugs and all users will crawl within this
junk yard.

And for sure MS will not clean any 3rd parties junkyard with any Crap
cleaner.


regards
plun
 
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