thanks for your answer. That's right: if I put "folders.htt" renamed to
"printers.htt" it works. What I hoped to learrn is why this thing happened.
SP4 or IE SP1? I don't think it is a printer driver, because I didn't change
something here for months. I would assume it is related to the web view in
Windows explorer.
Sorry about the delayed reply. But if you check the thread back ...
The .htt is sort of a web page, except that it runs in Explorer, not IE
(I'm being rough here). What it does is basically display a web page,
leaving a square in the middle for Explorer to fill with files (rough
again). So it's basically a template so that each page looks the same, but
the contents of the folder change. Actually, .HTT stands for HyperText
Template.
The advantage is that you can have a web page template for folders
and -say- another for network folders, so that the left links will be web
links or LAN links, instead of folders. So you name this LAN.htt and link it
to the Net Neighbourhood (or its latter sons). Every time you open a page,
it opens the NN and navigates down so all your shares look the same,
different from your local folders.
You can customize your own folder by doing a custom .htt and linking it to
the folder via a desktop.ini in that folder. If you right-click an empty
area on a folder and customize view, Windows generates a .htt for you. At
one point, you are allowed to edit the template yourself ("I want to change
blah blah" check box), which opens the .htt in Notepad.
Of course, Windows comes packed with its own views, embeded in Explorer,
and when you choose a default view, it replaces the .htt so that the changes
(like links) will be replicated onto all folders. If you don't like the
views, you can just noke it, the worst you can get is either a classic view
or a standard web view (depending on the Windows version).
Backing up to your question, versions of Explorer and IE change all the
time. Objects evolve to allow more features and sometimes the views become
outdated. This is (or should be
transparent to you on your system, but if
you customize a W2k folder and copy the .htt to XP, it will not work
properly.
So what happened is most likely you desync'd the updates, say you
installed (knowingly or not) Explorer update, then IE update. Except that
the .htt interpreter in Explorer was newer, since products are not linked in
development. So you ended up with an older or newer .htt file, that fails.
Usually, you get an annoying "Script error on page".
However, no worries. You can nuke any of the htt at any time. Just don't
go trigger-happy and nuke everything, some folders are special and fail if
de-customized (tasks, internet cache, etc).
