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How To Fix IE 7 Print Error In Windows Vista?

Walker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:20:47 +0000

Problem: You cannot print web page in IE 7 that is running in Protected Mode on Windows Vista machine.

Reason: When IE 7 running Protected Mode in Windows Vista, the browser processes require “low integrity” folder to function properly. You might have deleted the low integrity folder accidentally (via disk cleanup program) and this cause IE 7 printing error.

Symptom: IE 7 displays an error message similar to this:

Cannot find “file:///%userprofile%/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/NZ0LISWM.htm”. Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

After OK button, another Script Error box appears to tell “object required at line 2069 of res://ieframe.dll/preview.dlg”.

Solution: To run IE 7 with Protected Mode off (less secure) or to recreate the missing low integrity folder (%userprofile%/AppData/Local/Temp/Low).

Turn off or disable IE 7 Protected Mode in Windows Vista

If the IE 7 status bar is set to display, there is a Protected Mode status on the right hand side. Just double click the status (as highlighted: “Internet | Protected Mode: On”) to bring up Internet Security Properties dialog box and disable Protected Mode option (as shown in the following screenshot). Then, restart IE 7 or open another new instance (with Protected Mode status shown as Off) to load the page and try to print again.

^{How to turn off or disable IE 7 Protected Mode?}

Note: The Internet Security Properties setting is also accessible by clicking Tools menu (on the Toolbars; at top-right corner), Internet Options, Security tab.

Recreate low integrity folder for IE 7 running in Protected Mode

^{How to fix IE 7 print error? That is to recreate the low integrity folder for IE 7 running in Protected Mode.}

Open an elevated Command Prompt window to create a folder named low in the Temp of your user profile folder:

mkdir %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Low

Then, execute this command to set integrity level to low for the folder created:

ICACLS %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Low /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Note: You may turn on copy-paste feature of Command Prompt window to cut down typing efforts.

Google Chrome Memory Usage Is Better Than IE7 And Firefox

Walker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:26:04 +0000

Google Chrome is not only efficient in handling flash video cache but is also good in memory utilization.

If your system often runs out of free memory or you are habitually open many web links in new tabbed browser window (not bother to read and close it before open another URL in the current page, like a typical me), do consider to browse happily with Google Chrome. It’s really worth to try, but no refund if you’re not happy with it (as it’s absolutely free of charge)!

To examine CPU and memory utilization of active web browsers, use the Google Chrome Task Manager or Google Chrome memory diagnostic page.

To access the browser’s Task Manager, right click on Google Chrome title bar or the task bar icon and select Task Manager option from the right-click menu.

To access the memory diagnostic page, type about:memory in Google Chrome Address bar and press ENTER.

Google Chrome Task Manager only reports processes related to Google Chrome itself. The memory diagnostic, however, provides summary of memory usage of all active web browsers.

While this following screenshot was taken, there are two Google Chrome open with a total of 52 tabbed windows (i.e. 52 web pages; each tabbed window = 1 web page), three IE 7 with a total of 8 tabbed windows, and one Firefox 3 with a total of 6 tabbed windows:

^{Google Chrome memory utilization is more efficient than IE 7 and Firefox 3.x}

Although not all three active browsers are opening the same web pages, all of them have been running more than 24 hours and used to browse all type of web pages.

According to tooltips, the Private Memory described as resident memory that is not shared with any other process and is the best indicator of browser memory resource usage.

Now, considering the number of pages open in respective web browsers, and the belief of memory usage reported by Google Chrome memory diagnostic page is without bias (i.e. the about:memory), do you agree that Google Chrome is more efficient in utilizing the memory (and thus suggest Google Chrome has better performance than IE 7 and Firefox 3.x)? Have you says, please.

YouTube Downloader: Download YouTube Video For My Mom!

Walker — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:45:45 +0000

UPDATE: This post is outdated. Please use this alternate trick for reference.

Steve Chen and Chad Hurley created the most wanted video clip hosting site for sharing video collection easier on the Net, that’s YouTube!

YouTuber, the users of YouTube (I call it), like it very much. The reasons are simple: it’s free; it’s really easy to share and really fun to interact with community about the posted video clip collections!

So, active commenter (I am) prefer watching YouTube video clips online than having the videos playback at local hard disk.

However, there is another camp of people (me too), who occasionally would like to download YouTube videos and save them to mobile hard disk or the latest 8GB USB thumb drive.

The reasons? Well, as for me, those are for my mom and dad who are too old and reluctant to learn something about computer! You might want to download them for safekeeping, backup, playback on media server at home, saving the metered broadband usage at home, etc.

OK. For whatever reasons, how could you direct download YouTube video clips (or from any other video hosting sites)?

1) Native way – retrieve video clips from a Web browser cache folder

This native method works for most video hosting sites, as long as you know where is the web browser cache folder that used to temporarily keeping web page contents (including picture, MIDI, MP3, FLV, SWF, etc).

Firefox cache folder:

Type the following Firefox URI in the Address bar, press ENTER, and look for the Cache Directory: path of Disk Cache Device:

about:cache

Vista-IE7 cache folder:

By default installation, you could find the IE7 super-hidden cache folder in Windows Vista at this folder path:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.ie5

Note: You might need to enable “view hidden files/folders” option in Windows to locate all sub-folders or the browser cache folder itself.

For example, you could find YouTube video clips that finish playback in web browser leaving the cached video files with file name similar to get_video, get_video[1], get_video[2], etc.

Save all these cached file to another folder and rename them with a flash video file extension (i.e. FLV, e.g. get_video to be renamed as video1.flv) and you’re ready to play the YouTube video offline or convert them to other video format as you like.

For more detail, you may refer to Where Is IE7 Cache Folder, Retrieve Flash Movie In IE7 Cache Folder Of Windows Vista, How to save flash video from Firefox cache folder.

2) Techie way – retrieve the hidden YouTube video direct download link

This method is only applicable to YouTube video and it’s working at this time of writing.

It’s not really user-friendly but it’s good enough for those who wonder how YouTube Downloader extracts the YouTube video direct download link.

For the detail of this method, please refer to YouTube Video Direct Download Link

3) Easier way – retrieve the YouTube video download link with YouTube Downloader

There are many YouTube downloader freeware that you could easily find one or two from Google search.

If you’re not serious about downloading YouTube video (to be frank, watching YouTube video online is more fun because of the interactive features), I’ve my friend developed this simple one-click YouTube downloader.

Enter YouTube video URL here and click Submit button
And click your YouTube Video direct download link at here

Strictly speaking, it’s not a perfect downloader. For example, sometime it’s not working without hard forcing web browser to refresh (i.e. pressing CTRL+F5 hotkey). And, it doesn’t download the video. Indeed, it merely presents the YouTube video direct download link that described in previous method.

Where Is IE7 Cache Folder

Walker — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:24:34 +0000

You may or may not know that there are two version of IE7, a.k.a. Internet Explorer 7.

Basically, IE7 only run on XP SP2 and above, i.e. Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. However, the Vista version of IE7 is bundled with the Windows Vista installation. In addition, Vista-IE7 could not run on XP and Windows 2003, and vice-versa.
The reason is that Vista-IE7 comes with extra security feature called Protected Mode, where the low privilege IE7 processes only allowed to write files and settings to a “low integrity” location, including the TIF folder (Temporarily Internet Files folder, or cache folder).

Thus, you may not find some of the cached files (e.g. YouTube video, JPEG, MP3, etc) in the normal cache folder path, as in earlier version of IE web browser.

Where Is IE7 Cache Folder in Windows Vista

Assuming the Protected Mode security is turned on by default.

Open IE7 in Windows Vista,
Press ALT+T keyboard shortcut to bring up Tools menu
Click the Internet Options sub-menu,
In the Internet Options dialog box, click the Settings button of Browsing History section,
Click the View Files button in the Temporarily Internet Files and History Settings dialog box,
Press ALT+D to highlight the Windows Explorer address bar,
Then follow by pressing the right-arrow key on your keyboard,
APPEND this hidden path \low\content.ie5 and press ENTER key.

By appending \low\content.ie5 to the traditional IE cache folder path, you’ll find most of the cached files in this “low integrity” folder (when IE7 is running in Protected Mode).

Some or all of the folders in this “low integrity” folder might be in hidden mode, which can only be seen or accessed by turning on the view hidden files option in Windows Explorer.

Where Is IE7 Cache Folder in Windows XP

Because the XP and Windows 2003 don’t support Protected Mode as in Windows Vista, there is no so-called “low integrity” folder in these Windows.

However, IE7 running on XP and 2003 doesn’t cache all files in the traditional cache folder path as well.

In order to access the IE7 cache folder in XP / Windows 2003:

Open IE7 in Windows XP or 2003,
Press ALT+T keyboard shortcut to bring up Tools menu
Click the Internet Options sub-menu,
In the Internet Options dialog box, click the Settings button of Browsing History section,
Click the View Files button in the Temporarily Internet Files and History Settings dialog box,
Press ALT+D to highlight the Windows Explorer address bar,
Then follow by pressing the right-arrow key on your keyboard,
APPEND this hidden path \content.ie5 and press ENTER key.

Similarly, you might need to turn on the view hidden files options in Windows Explorer before you could view / access all the web pages components cached by the web browser.

YouTube Video Direct Download Link

Walker — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:15:19 +0000

You like YouTube? I do. You want to download some of the nice YouTube video clip for offline leisure. So am I.

Besides relying on freeware, you could also copy the YouTube video clips from browser’s cache folder. Now, there is another trick where you could find a hidden direct download link of each YouTube video clips.
Best of all, you don’t have to worry about installing too many freeware (that potentially slow down Windows performance) nor you’ve to watch the video and then locate it from cache folder.

How to extract the hidden direct download link of YouTube video?

With this trick means you could directly download the YouTube video clips to local hard disk!

1) For example, click these links to open the Jumper trailer or the Batman The Dark Knight trailer hosted at YouTube (you could just open any video clips hosted on YouTube) with your favorite web browser.

2) Right-click on the empty / blank place to bring up the web browser context-menu, then click the View Source (IE7) or View Page Source (Firefox 2.0.0.12)

3) Press CTRL+F hotkeys to bring up Find function dialog box and search for watch_fullscreen

4) On the same line, copy all the text from video_id up to title.

E.g. Copy the red-color highlighted text only:

YouTube page source of Batman The Dark Knight trailer:

var fullscreenUrl = '/watch_fullscreen?fs=1&q=batman&e=h&sourceid=ys&video_id=WaIR9dAZRR0&l=127&sk=VCaWxqmJZiKonU1nSiudlwC&t=OEgsToPDskIruDrrzg8rrmEurgby4CAq&hl=en&plid=AARG6hg5eMe3TU0HAAAAoARKYAA&tk=qFuW4Ccd3bcw0maq8nDIEhW4w-HlY7INZ_61k0CTk6utKedGb4Uveg%3D%3D&title=Batman - The Dark Knight Trailer HD';

YouTube page source of the Jumper trailer:

'/watch_fullscreen?fs=1&e=h&video_id=9rz5NekSUTM&l=149&sk=GJ-xz7O9MhF7a9YqeK9xQwC&t=OEgsToPDskJfBx_V8_vxpGb1nnFNj6Ky&hl=en&plid=AARG6j6Dw6RqOq7AAAAAoAAYYAE&title=Jumper Trailer - World Premiere';

5) Open another new browser window, type this URL

www.youtube.com/get_video?

and then press CTRL+C keyboard shortcut to APPEND the copied text in step 4.

E.g. these are how the hidden direct download links of YouTube videos look like:

The Jumper Trailer direct download link:

www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=9rz5NekSUTM&l=149&sk=GJ-xz7O9MhF7a9YqeK9xQwC&t=OEgsToPDskJfBx_V8_vxpGb1nnFNj6Ky&hl=en&plid=AARG6j6Dw6RqOq7AAAAAoAAYYAE&title

Batman The Dark Knight Trailer direct download link:

www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=WaIR9dAZRR0&l=127&sk=VCaWxqmJZiKonU1nSiudlwC&t=OEgsToPDskIruDrrzg8rrmEurgby4CAq&hl=en&plid=AARG6hg5eMe3TU0HAAAAoARKYAA&tk=qFuW4Ccd3bcw0maq8nDIEhW4w-HlY7INZ_61k0CTk6utKedGb4Uveg%3D%3D&title

Now, just press ENTER key and you’ll prompted to save the get_video file. Before saving the file, you may rename it with a meaningful filename and append the .flv as the flash video file extension.
With reference: Lawrence@NextMile

Vista IE7 Fail To Print Web Page To XPS Format

Walker — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:18:54 +0000

Not everyone needs a physical printer at home, so am I. Indeed, we should try not to print as many as we could, as a little contribution to the green environment!

On many occasions, however, there is a need to “print” an electronic receipt / acknowledgement for reference / prove.
In this case, a hard-copy printout is still not a must, but such receipt can be kept intact by printing to another electronic format – Adobe PDF document, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF printed by Microsoft Office Document Image Writer), Microsoft XPS Document, etc.

Before XPS Document is introduced, I used to install PDF Creator to my XP machine for the same purpose.

With Vista Ultimate running now, I enjoy with the built-in XPS Document printing feature. At the same time, there is also Office 2007 with nice Add-in called SaveAsPDF to convert Office document into Adobe PDF format or the Office Document Image Writer for TIFF file.

Now, a problem I’ve faced just now when I want to print an inter-bank fund transfer successfully acknowledgement, the lovely Vista IE7 pop up two error messages, one after another:

Vista IE7 doesn’t print a web page by pop up error message:

Cannot find "file:///%userprofile%/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/NZ0LISWM.htm". Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

After clicking the OK button, there is another Internet Explorer Script Error window pop up:

The error message seems to tell that an object required is not exists in line 2069 when processing res://ieframe.dll/preview.dlg (a print preview dialog box?).

Well, if you happen to have this similar problem, you might have done one of this:

Too naughty to delete everything found in each Temp folders of Windows Vista, including the LOW integrity folder for read/write access of low integrity process (e.g. IE7 running in Protected Mode) – This is my case!
Install and run CCleaner 2.03.532 to clean useless temporarily files in Windows Vista,
Install and run CCleaner-like program that delete the LOW folder.

How to restore or recreate LOW folder in Windows Vista?

Browse to the Temp folder of your user account, i.e.
```
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp
```
Create a new folder and name it as Low
Open a command prompt with elevated privilege and enter this command to set the LOW folder as low integrity folder:
```
ICACLS %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Low /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low
```

Once these similar message are seen,

processed file: C:\Users\Joyride\AppData\Local\Temp\Low
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

then proceed to try printing in Vista IE7 again (which should be working now):
Note: With reference to Piriform forum

How To View RSS Feed In XML Format With Firefox

Walker — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:50:09 +0000

Similar to IE7, Firefox 2.x built-in Feed Reader that understand RSS and Atom protocol.

By default, both IE7 and Firefox are set to render the XML format of RSS / ATOM feed in human readable form.
Although the default reader works well for majority users, developers might sometimes expect turn it off to inspect the underlying XML structure of a Feed.

IE7 comes with an option to turn off or disable Feed preview function. However, Firefox 2.x doesn’t have such explicit option to do so!

Though, Moggylaceous posted a simply hack or trick to disable the Feed preview function in Firefox 2.x too.

All you need to do is edit the FeedConverter.js, a JavaScript file that comes with Firefox installation.

In my Windows Vista Ultimate, this FeedConverter.js is located at this path

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\FeedConverter.js

Open the FeedConverter.js, search for this block of code and remark it to become comment (refer to the screenshot below for reference)

if (result.doc && (!this._sniffed || (result.doc.title && (result.doc.link || result.doc.id)))) {

and add a new line, i.e. if (0) {, as a replacement to the remarked block of code.

For Windows Vista, saving the FeedConverter.js file might be rejected with an error message that similar to “Please check whether if this file is opened in another program.”

In this case, you might wonder what other application using FeedConverter.js file while there is no active Firefox is running.

Well, it’s not because of Firefox, but this is likely due to Windows Vista UAC security feature! I’ve successfully save the change by using Notepad++ that was executed in an elevated Command Prompt window!

Once the changes are saved, restart Firefox to get it renders the underlying structure of a Feed. (Though, this hack doesn’t work with ATOM feed).