Re: Offline Nitaaiveda and Windows Vista problem fix

Respected Swamiji, Nava Prabhu, and all devotees,

       Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!  Thank you for that fix. It works for many users. But in my case it was a bit different. I tried to do that, but unfortunately I found that the option specified to unblock a file was not there. What you said works when transferring Nitaai Veda to a vista PC from some other computer, mostly an XP operating system. But this problem is different and  it has to do with some internal properties of the file system. What I saw was this.

      

As you may see the unblock option is not available. This problem happens to those who download Nitaai Veda or any other chm file from IE 7 onwards as chm support is actually disabled and no longer part of Windows Services from Vista onwards.

After doing plenty of online research -- I discovered that the problem has to do with certain properties stored in memory that cannot be accessed by the NTFS file system on the regular hard disk. Vista keeps an internal record that this file was imported from the web therefore it does not allow it to be accessed. This is called an alternate data system (ADS).

1)To solve the ADS issue, copy the Nitaai Veda Chm folder (after unblocking it) to a non-NTFS file storage system like a USB drive or Ipod which are FAT storage systems. Doing so deletes the ADS.

2)After that you may copy paste back from your FAT drive to NTFS on your hardisk and overwrite the old copy of the file. See if it works now. If it doesn't read further.

However I highly recommend to do some additional work to make it fully secure (Steps 3-5). Better that everyone necessarily do this as this was the only procedure that worked for me

3)After copying to your FAT drive, Right click the file in the FAT drive and select properties.  You will see this :
 

 

      3) Observe that the archive option encircled is checked. Disable "Archive". Click the check-box to uncheck it. Now it will look as below

       Having done this you can now read the chm file in your FAT drive or USB or ipod without a problem

       4) With this the ADS is totally removed. Now copy back to the NTFS hard drive in your PC in the same folder. If it asks for overwrite, select YES. Otherwise you may delete the old file and then copy paste the modified file from your FAT drive to your USB drive.

       5) Now the chm file can be opened and read normally without any problem.  Hooray! Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

In your service,

Srinath

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