199972 - Win XP System restore facility affected by Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Peter Laursen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When running the RealOne Player as a plug-in under Mozilla 1.3 the Win XP System
restore facility is affected.  Actually Systems Restore can be cancelled by
system and restore points are lost.  

A message from the systems' logfile (in danish):
Systemgendannelsesfilteret stødte på en uventet fejl '0xC0000040' under
behandling af filen 'now4-3.lnk' på drev 'HarddiskVolume1'.  Overvågning af
drevet er stoppet.

explanation: the file now4-3.lnk seems to be created by Mozilla when RealPlayer
is run as a plug-in.  That file can't be handled by systems' restore filter. 
Surveyance of disc-unit has been stopped.

Error doen't occur when using IE&.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. It has happened about ten times since I switched to Mozilla as my standard
browser about 3-4 month ago
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I manually created a restore point, and it runs again ....

Expected Results:  
Use another method for running that plugin, I think

Comment 1

[timeless]

this doesn't sound like it's our fault

Comment 2

[Travis Chase]

Is this still happening with a more recent build? In my experience, anything to
do with Windows restoring, has always been notoriously unreliable, and unnessasary

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

sounds like a bug in windows and not Mozilla.