Micks' Musings

I have upgraded my laptop to Windows 8 and all was fine for about three hours and then I started to get an error when trying to run any application that required Administrator privileges. Half an hour of Googling led me to this blog post   Case of the broken uac prompt This problem was caused by downloading themes. The final theme I had decided on included a new sound theme. Clearly at least one of the sounds did not play (the one for the UAC prompt!). Changing the sound theme (right click on desktop, choose "personalisation") to Windows Default sorted out the problem. Doing a clean install would also have fixed it but that would have been a drastic solution and as soon as I installed a new theme it may have happened again.

I have just migrated my Mozilla Thunderbird profile to a new computer and I discovered that Unified Folders were not working. I migrated using MozBackup, and when I discovered that the Unified folders were not working, and a second time by a direct copy and a modification of profiles.ini to point to the copied profile (so I did not have to rename the profile directory). In both cases the Unified Folders option could not be selected. The Error Console (select Error Console from the Tools menu) had the following error. Timestamp: 15/04/2012 11:52:20 AM Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIMsgSendLater.hasUnsentMessages]" nsresult: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/mail-offline.js :: :: line 81" data: no] I discovered that the unified folders worked if I Ran Thunderbird using the "Run as administrator" opti