Solved problem sending command

[gfheiche]

When I click on a desk shortcut to open a program, I get first the statement:" There was a problem sending the command to the program." Then the program opens anyhow.
The computer runs windows 7 and firefox 3.51.
How can I get rid of the unnecessary statement:" There was a problem sending the command to the program?"

TIA gfheiche

 

[zigzag3143]

problem

When I click on a desk shortcut to open a program, I get first the statement:" There was a problem sending the command to the program." Then the program opens anyhow.
The computer runs windows 7 and firefox 3.51.
How can I get rid of the unnecessary statement:" There was a problem sending the command to the program?"

TIA gfheiche

HEY gfh

First welcome to sevenforums.

WE could use all your computer specs, OS specs, clean install or upgrade, etc.

TIA

Ken

 

[Brink]

Hello gfh, and welcome to Seven Forums.

As a test for now, you might see if creating a new shortcut directly from the Firefox exe file may work better instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[gfheiche]

Right now, I drag the URL from the Navigation Toolbar onto the desktop.
How do I do this from Firefox.exe file?
Thanks gfheiche

 

[gfheiche]

Hey Ken,

It is a desktop with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor, 1GB RAM, 32 bit.
I upgraded from Vista home premium to Windows 7 Ultimate, using the latest free Release Candidate.
Firefox 3.51

Thanks gfheiche

 

[Brink]

Right now, I drag the URL from the Navigation Toolbar onto the desktop.
How do I do this from Firefox.exe file?
Thanks gfheiche

GFH,

You would just go to the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder and right click on the firefox.exe file and clickon Send to and Desktop (Create shortcut) to create the new shortcut to open Firefox with.

 

[gfheiche]

Hello Shawn,
It worked. Great. Thank you very much
GFH

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome.

 

[eac]

Happy you.
It doesn't work for me.
I'm still having this issue.
Any other ideas?

Thx

 

[eac]

Solved
Changed default browser to IE and after that FF back.
All is fine now.
I've thought maybe it helps another one.

all the best!

 

[Tews]

Thanks for posting your solution..

 

[suzbwise]

Uh oh still doesn't work for me...

Hello! This is my first post - thank you for this forum! I'm having the same problem "There was a problem sending the command to the program." message comes up when I click on a desktop link. In my case, I'm testing on a weather gadget. The "solution" is on the right track - if I change IE (8) to the default browser, it works. BUT when I change back to FFox (3.5.5) I get the message again. Any suggestions?? Thanks!

 

[suzbwise]

fixed??!

Hello again! I have *no* idea why, but it's working now... I did update video drivers etc - but nothing that makes sense to me. Sigh. Thanks, anyway!

 

[edgecrusher71]

My Issue

I am trying to use bitcomet and Firfox downloads my torrents to my desktop and when I try to run the torrent I get the same error, I do not know how to fix this...
Plz help!

 

[jazzworship]

I have the same issue when opening a file on my network

When I try to open an MS Office file somewhere on my network, I get the same error: "There was a problem sending the command to the program."
However, the program opens...but I still get the annoying error. What does it mean and how do I get rid of it?

 

[snambiar]

Problem with all programs

Hi guys, I am having the same issue mentioned above, but it is not just with firefox, it is with all programs, including microsoft office and many more. Does anyone know what is the cause of it?

 

[johnthr]

see http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...blem-sending-command-program.html#post1246726

 

[wcblackburn]

Solved
Changed default browser to IE and after that FF back.
All is fine now.
I've thought maybe it helps another one.

all the best!

Thanks man, other solution didn't work but this one did, would have been pulling my hair out for ages if i hadn't seen this solution.

Cheers,
W

 

[xine]

My problem was resolved when I disabled the FoxyProxy add-on that I had installed. Someone mentioned this in another forum and it worked for me.

 

[jayess99]

I am getting the same error msg

win7, IE Expl 8 - all of a sudden I am getting the same error msg, but none of my shortcuts work, nor do any of the links within my email messages. But I can open my browser and the links there seem to work. I just installed AVG Free 2011, could this have anything to do with it? Also, I installed a ZIP program earlier, didn't like it, uninstalled it, found that it had changed my home page and installed a weird tool bar. Uninstalled the tool bar from the control panel, reset the home page, but the shortcuts still get that error msg.