Windows 7 Repair Install

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Bullfrog117

Due to the slow start of Windows Vista/7, I never really needed to figure out how to repair those installations and just kept on repairing Windows XP installations by booting the XP CD and selecting the repair option. Now that people are really starting to use (and consequently screw up) Windows Vista/7, knowing how to do a repair is actually pretty important. Unfortunately, Microsoft changed the wording on everything. It’s now called an upgrade (even though it’s the exact same version of everything). It preserves settings, programs, files, etc and just repairs the operating system.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Sony Vegas Pro 8.1, Windows 7 64-bit, and Error 0×80010105 (message missing)

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Bullfrog117

I was trying to figure out how best to render videos in Sony Vegas for YouTube. I used to just use DivX and hope for the best, but I’ve upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and Sony Vegas Pro 8.1 (the only 64-bit compatible version of Vegas8) doesn’t recognize DivX. I found a partial solution referring to h.264 here:

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/874371 & http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/874375

But when I tried to render with the project template “YouTube (HD)”, the render would fail with this error message – “An error occoured while creating the media file xxxxx.yyy. Error 0×80010105 (message missing)”. The suggestions posted here:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/884273

said to try “compatibility mode: Vista no service packs” and “Run As Administrator” which didn’t solve the problem. So I dug into the project template and lo and behold – de-selecting two-pass on the video tab allowed the render to complete perfectly. Don’t know that it’s a final solution, but I’m going with it until further notice.

Disabling Open File Warnings

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Bullfrog117

1. Go into Internet Options, through Control Panel or Internet Explorer -> Tools.
2. Go to the Security tab and select “Trusted Sites”.
3. Click on “Sites”
4. Deselect the “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” checkbox
5 Add the network computer the executable is located on (i.e. \\server) and click OK
6. Click on “Custom Level”
7. Set the “Launching applications and unsafe files” option under Miscellaneous to “Enable”.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itproxpsp/thread/e3008c75-48b4-4a6c-bc14-5a20ce72cd7f

MSConfig Entry Deletion

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Bullfrog117

Locations of the entries in MSConfig
The enabled/checked items are populated from the following registry locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run

-and-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Windows
Values named Run & Load

The disabled entries are present in these locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupreg
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupfolder

(source: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MSCONFIG.htm)

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Windows 7 Repair Install

Sony Vegas Pro 8.1, Windows 7 64-bit, and Error 0×80010105 (message missing)

Disabling Open File Warnings

MSConfig Entry Deletion