Nov032012

Why is there an error message every time I connect my PC to the internet?

Shakil asks:

Once I’m connecting my PC to net, it’s always coming on desktop “Invalid path or file name”. What is wrong with my connection? Kindly help.


Browser: Chrome 4
System: Windows
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Bruce Epper

November 3, 2012

It isn’t a problem with your connection. Your system is attempting to access a file that at one time was in a specific location on your hard drive and it is no longer there. It may be a shim that was added to your TCP/IP stack for some purpose and was later removed but the references to it in the registry are still there (common for many programs when they are uninstalled). You can run a registry cleaner or CCleaner to locate issues related to missing files. Back up your registry before you let it try to fix anything and in this case, you may want to only make changes that relate only to missing files. After doing this, restart your computer (the registry is only read once and held in memory until the computer is shut down) and see if the behavior has changed (you should no longer get that error message, although it is possible you will end up with a different one).

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Boni Oloff

November 3, 2012

Are you going to open file on the network?

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ha14

November 3, 2012

is it when you click on internet link?
Error Message: “An Invalid Path or Filename was Specified,” when Clicking an Internet Link or the Web Site Field
http://kb.sagesoftwareonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11144/~/error-message%3A-%22an-invalid-path-or-filename-was-specified,%22-when-clicking-an
1)Enable ACT! Internet Services
2)Windows Cannot Find Web Browser
3)Incorrect Registry Entry

is it all browsers causing the problem

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josemon maliakal

November 3, 2012

can you make the question more clear? whcih app produces this error..or is this a system error or any kind of other alerts?

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Dimal Chandrasiri

November 3, 2012

a software or the system on behalf of you is requesting a file over the network but gets a bad response.! that’s why this error is generated!

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Anthony Monori

November 3, 2012

Check your default homepage

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Adam Campbell

November 3, 2012

It looks like your computer is automatically looking for a file as soon as your computer senses that it is a connected to the internet. Unless of course it happens when your computer starts up, in which case it is trying to connect a network drive or something

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mohan kumar

November 4, 2012

How do you connect to the internet ? Do you plug the LAN cable or do you have a dialer to connect to your modem ?

Are you able to browse the net after you connect ? If so, then possibly, you had put some file on a public share folder that has been deleted or moved out. If so, ensure that your firewall is on to be on the safe side

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Boni Oloff

November 4, 2012

Yeah, what kind of connection you use? and What software that show the error?

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Shankar C

November 4, 2012

delete the temporary files and connect again it will surely load

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Nikhil Chandak

November 4, 2012

ask an computer engineer
or ask the company of internet …

Abba Jee

thanks for great help :s

November 27, 2012
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Jim Chambers

November 5, 2012

Have you mapped a network drive that’s no longer available or using some network file sycing software?

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Rakesh Mishra

November 13, 2012

there will be some integration problem because i was also facing same problem 1 month ago

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