Archive for April, 2008
This is just downright ludicrous. There is apparently a conflict between Windows Live Photo Gallery and Quicktime, where even single-clicking on a MOV file in Windows Explorer causes Explorer to hang for up to several minutes. I “fixed” this problem by renaming the culprit: wlxquicktimecontrolhost.exe The file is located here: C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo Gallery Just [...]
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I found this code to add Soundex to Microsoft Access, which is invaluable for deduping records. However, it has a key error that causes it to fail – the variable name in the private function is incorrect. It’s a simple fix (see red below). Function Soundex(strName As String) As String‘———————————————————–‘ Input: A string‘ Outputs: U.S. [...]
In the last 10 seconds of every track, WMP would freeze and then skip. It didn’t happen in any other player, but I prefer WMP (I listen to a lot of DRM music via Zune Marketplace). Well, turns out it’s a problem with the SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC. If you disable the “enhancements”, the [...]