Solo Technology

Been a long night here at casa Solo.  I think Microsoft has decided to hate me for some unknown reason.  Karma?

Earlier this evening I was poking around on the Microsoft Connect site and saw the page for OneNote 2007.  I grabbed the (over) 500MB download and figured I was ready to go.  Except it never actually installs anything for me.  I even tried twice.  It spins.  It grinds.  It displays what seem to be useful dialogs.  But when done, I got nothing.Maybe I’ll try again next week, but right now I’m thoroughly in the dark. 

Then it went all to hell.

I saw the Windows Live OneCare beta listed there.  I had used this earlier in the year and generally was pleased with it (previous mentions).  Ever the optimist, I uninstalled my current antivirus software, rebooted, grabbed the download, installed and rebooted one last time, confident that all would be well.

Firefox can’t reach the internet anymore.  Nor can my Omnidrive client.  In fact, prett much the only thing that seems to talk to the outside world is my ie7 beta browser.  No sign that OneCare is running.  Nothing in the tray (which is weird…).  Nothing in task list.  But something’s blocking my ability to talk to the outside world.  I’ve confirmed that the winXP firewall is still disabled so I’m a bit stumped as to what’s going on here.

Well, I figured the logical thing to do would be to uninstall OneCare.  And did.  The uninstall seemed to run fine, but culminated in a weird system error.  And of course I didn’t grab a screenshot.  *sigh*.  But hey, it doesn’t show up in the installed stuff list anymore.

Rebooted again.

IE7 still the only thing that’ll talk to the outside world.  Did finally manage to coax RDC to connect to my office machine via VPN – a blessing as it’s snowing here and I was planning to work from home tomorrow morning!  But now I wonder if I’ll be reloading this machine tomorrow instead.  Grr…

I might be too tired to deal with this right now.

[updated: Just noticed that the xp firewall is forced on, with no option to disable.  Must be a policy thing, but not seeing a way to change it in my local security policy editor.  Something to ponder tomorrow morning, I suppose.  Have to suspect that's what is blocking Firefox...]

3 Responses to “I’m *so* Not a Microsoft Fan Right Now…”

1. » pingback » Windows Likes Me Again » Solo Technology on October 19th, 2006 9:45 pm
   
   
2. Michael on March 1st, 2007 7:39 pm
   

   updated: Just noticed that the xp firewall is forced on, with no option to disable. Must be a policy thing, but not seeing a way to change it in my local security policy editor. Something to ponder tomorrow morning, I suppose. Have to suspect that’s what is blocking Firefox…]

   If you aren’t logged on as an administrator user, you can’t change those settings.

3. Chris on March 1st, 2007 8:06 pm
   

   Thanks for the note!

   At the time this article was posted, my user account was a domain user account in the domain admin group.

   Turned out it was Defender clashing with Live OneCare.

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