I AM GETTING AN ERROR MESSAGE WHEN TRYING TO LAUNCH T-BIRD. IT READS 'ERROR LAUNCHING U3 APPLICATION. I TRIED TO UNINSTALL THE T-BIRD PROGRAM AND GOT ANOTHER ERROR THAT READ 'ERROR UNINSTALLING THE PROGRAM. T-BIRD UNINSTALL FAILED'. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS WHAT TO DO? I NEED HELP
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Most likely, you have a poorly-behaved antivirus program that "found" a virus in one of the stub programs included with TB for U3 and automatically deleted it (a very poor configuration). Browse to your U3 device, be sure you have Windows set to show hidden and read-only files and see if the following files exist:
X:\System\Apps\FEFECB84-0E05-42d8-B044-F2D0FCFF8C15\Exec\ThunderbirdForU3HostConfigure.exe
X:\System\Apps\FEFECB84-0E05-42d8-B044-F2D0FCFF8C15\Exec\ThunderbirdForU3Start.exe
X:\System\Apps\FEFECB84-0E05-42d8-B044-F2D0FCFF8C15\thunderbird_u3_1.5.0.42_en-us.u3p
If they don't, your virus program probably deleted them. Unfortunately, this type of situation is a bit difficult on U3 and requires manually fixing the program on your device. To do this, follow these directions:
1. Download a new copy of thunderbird_u3_1.5.0.42_en-us.u3p
2. Copy this file to your U3 device in the following directory:
X:\System\Apps\FEFECB84-0E05-42d8-B044-F2D0FCFF8C15
3. Rename the file on your PC (not where you copied it to your U3 device) to thunderbird_u3_1.5.0.42_en-us.zip
4. Open up the file in your Zip program and copy out the Device directory within it.
5. Copy the files from inside this Device directory to your U3 device:
H:\System\Apps\FEFECB84-0E05-42d8-B044-F2D0FCFF8C15\Exec
I know that's a bit complicated, but it's the only way to repair a U3 program once it's been corrupted by an outside event (in this case, a poorly behaving antivirus program).
And, btw, please chill with the capital letters. Typing in all caps online is shouting and is exceedingly rude.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Why didn't you just change it yourself?
Maybe if someone (*cough*Ashes and Lurk*cough*) was a moderator, they could change it for you and you could focus on making the apps?
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
he wouldn't learn nuthin.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
you still could have left the comment
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Where has Ashes been anyway?
~Lurk~
~Lurk~
I haven't seen her around for a while. Maybe she read this and then disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
On that same topic, has anyone seen Mark lately?
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Love the link!
~Lurk~
~Lurk~
I read that a while ago.
I had to search to find it
Side-note: I found that thanks to StumbleUpon. Best. Extension. Ever
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."