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[MorganX]

Darrian, on 26 November 2012 - 18:32, said:

Ok, well, I never got around to testing whether the firefox maintenance service was the issue, because now it's broken again and the only thing I've done is installed some windows updates. I guess it's just something inherent in Windows 8 and I'll have to wait for MS to fix it. I did get to enjoy Pin Steam for a few minutes yesterday. Oh well.

I feel your pain. I haven't given up on 8, but I have given up on trying to fix/workaround these irritating bugs that are all Metro related.

[MorganX]

Here is the most common fix for this. Edit your registry at your own risk.

Open your registry and delete the following key and then reboot:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CSLID

No one knows what specific entries cause the problem but Microangelo OnDisplay does create an entry FWIW. I think many legacy apps may cause this problem. This should not harm your system as software will recreate the keys if needed. MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE CURRENT USER HIVE and not LOCAL MACHINE.

[georgevella]

MorganX, on 26 November 2012 - 20:22, said:

Here is the most common fix for this. Edit your registry at your own risk.

Open your registry and delete the following key and then reboot:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CSLID

No one knows what specific entries cause the problem but Microangelo OnDisplay does create an entry FWIW. I think many legacy apps may cause this problem. This should not harm your system as software will recreate the keys if needed. MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE CURRENT USER HIVE and not LOCAL MACHINE.

Which moron suggested that?! You just deleted COM objects registration info for the current user.

[MorganX]

georgevella, on 26 November 2012 - 20:35, said:

Which moron suggested that?! You just deleted COM objects registration info for the current user.

1) It works.
2) Edit the registry at your own risk. If the app is worth it's salt, it will reload from HKLM or recreate.

[georgevella]

Those keys are created through regsvr32 or manually via the installation. There are no rules saying that the keys under that tree should be cloned into HKLM, heck, it doesn't even matter because they won't be recreated unless you manually re-register the component or reinstall the program. It may work for this problem, sure, but it's the wrong solution. You are solving one problem by probably creating another.

MorganX, on 26 November 2012 - 20:43, said:

1) It works.
2) Edit the registry at your own risk. If the app is worth it's salt, it will reload from HKLM or recreate.

[MorganX]

Anything is possible. The two I had were recreated and problem solved. I would say, go for it on Windows 8 without hesitation at this point.

You can back it up, yada yada, restore each key to see which one breaks Metro links. It may not even be a key, it could be legacy installs corrupt it. That's an individual call. It'll be a long wait for MS to fix this issue and most likely worth it. For this user, who has reinstalled everything anyway, I would highly recommend deleting the user key and fixing this problem and reinstalling anything that appears to have an issue though I doubt anything will.

[Darrian]

Yeah, I'll probably try that in the morning (I'm off to work soon). I'll just back up that reg key first so I can re-add it if it causes any other issues. Thanks.

Edit: Nevermind, I went ahead and did it since it only takes a few moments. It appears to have worked. I'll key that regkey backup just in case I need it down the road, but for now it appears to be fine. I guess I'll find out down the road if it caused any issues. Thanks dude!

[bradbodily]

Just wanted to add that deleting the reg keys worked for me, too (at least, for now). I too made a back up in case issues show up down the road, and it seems a dumb thing to need to do, but it's nice to have links working again.