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More experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD
Sat, Nov 19 2011 5:47
In my post experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD I said I thought the reason my Windows 7 Media Center was hanging at the "TV signal configuration” step was down to using mixed tuner cards. Well my second PCTV nanoStick T2 .arrived yesterday so I was able to try the same process with a pair of identical USB T2 tuners. Guess what? I... Read More...
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Experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD
Mon, Nov 14 2011 10:23
I have used a Windows Media Center as my only means to watch TV for about 5 years; upgrading over the years from XP to Vista and onto Windows 7. I am a completely hooked on the ease of use, especially if you just want a means to watch and record Freeview (the UK free to air terrestrial service). Far easier UI than any Freeview PVR I have seen, and I personally... Read More...
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Bitlocker keeps asking for my recovery key after a change in my disk’s MBR
Wed, Sep 14 2011 12:40
My development laptop is bitlocker’ed , and yours should be too. It provides a great and non-invasive way (assuming you have a TPM chip) to protect you and your clients data on a machine that is far to easy to steal or loose. However, whilst fiddling with Windows 8 I did trip myself up. I have my PC setup for a boot to Windows 7 from a bitlocker’ed drive C with... Read More...
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VHD boot and c00002e2 Errors
Thu, Mar 18 2010 14:58
For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well I used IMAGEX to create a WIM of the disk Created an empty VHD Used IMAGEX to apply the WIM to the VHD Formatted... Read More...
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Timeouts on Bitlocker to go
Thu, May 21 2009 4:51
Since moving to Windows 7 I have encrypted all my USB pen drives and external USB disk drives with Bitlocker to go . This has been working great for me, I have noticed no performance problems and it give nice piece of mind. The only irritation is when you plug the encrypted drive into an XP or Vista PC you can’t read it, but this is meant to be being addressed... Read More...
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Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)
Sat, Apr 25 2009 13:51
Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily with Visual Studio and Typemock without any need for extra rights. However, when I have been doing some testing... Read More...
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Error 1722 when installing MVC 1.0
Thu, Mar 19 2009 12:09
As I am sure you will have heard the MVC 1.0 has been released. I downloaded this on my Windows 7 and tried to install it but got an Error 1722, the MSI then rolled back. Turns out the problem was simply that I had Visual Studio open at the time I installed, it needs to be closed. It seems the MSI does not check for this before it attempts the copy. Read More...
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Problem hosting WCF using Cassini on Windows 7
Sat, Jan 24 2009 4:41
I have been working on an internal legacy application at our place that is being slowly moved from ASMX to WCF services. At present the services are a mixture of the two and there is a new WCF based client making connections to both types as needed. This work has been going on for a while on Vista development boxes without any problems. However when I opened... Read More...
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Installing an MSI on Windows 7 fails after 16th January 2009
Mon, Jan 19 2009 15:18
I am using Windows 7 Beta on my main PC, whilst trying to install an application today I hit a problem, the installer failed on start-up. Firstly I thought it was a corrupt MSI so I tried another application, but it did the same. When I checked the Windows Application event log I found the following Faulting application name: msiexec.exe, version: 5.0.7000.0... Read More...
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