Got this error when attempting to record and play videos with Windows Media Center on Windows 7 Beta of "The video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Restart Windows Media Center or the computer”.

After some initial investigation it seems by simply putting my clock back in time and re-loading Windows Media Center fixed the problem. It’s possible a component, possibly the decoder shipped with the beta of Windows 7 has expired. Correct me if im wrong. Thanks! Not!

So if you get this error, first try putting your clock back.

Also, I have added a new category of Windows Media Center and filed this in here.

Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy

Well it’s been a long time coming with improvements to Internet Explorer 8 to hit the computing web browser platform arena this week.

I won’t bother stating all the new stuff with the latest browser from Microsoft, you can simply jump over to the website of http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ to view all about it.

I must say, during the Release Candidate 1 I wasn’t impressed with the stability of the browser. Let’s hope it has been rectified with the RTM release.

Statistics state the following:
According to a recent survey by IT consultants Janco Associates, Internet Explorer has a 72.2 per cent market share, ahead of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser with 17.2 per cent. Google's new Chrome browser has only 2.8 per cent of the market, while Apple's Safari has less than 1 per cent.

Another pain point for Windows 7 Beta users is that they will not be able to install the RTM on the Operating System (well as far as I am aware). This is a pain for people wanting to upgrade today. Looks like we will have to wait for the Release Candidate of Windows 7 which is currently been prepared.

Microsoft has released this statement to Windows 7 Beta users:
Windows 7 Beta already includes a pre-release candidate version of Internet Explorer 8 that is optimized for that release. Windows 7 enables unique features and functionality in Internet Explorer 8 including Windows Touch and Jump Lists which require additional product tests to ensure we are providing the best Windows experience for our customers. We will continue to update the version of Internet Explorer 8 running on Windows 7 as the development cycles of Windows 7 progress and plan to include the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in the release candidate version of Windows 7 later this year

Time will tell how well Internet Explorer 8 will shape up in the Web Browser market.

Greg.

New version of the SDK for CRM 4.0 has been released.

The new version is 4.0.8 and now available for download. Quite a bit updated so I guess you download it and start having a look around.

Microsoft Download:
File: CrmSdk4.exe  (self extracting)
Size: 16.1MB
Date Published: 4th March 2009
Version: 4.0.8
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82E632A7-FAF9-41E0-8EC1-A2662AAE9DFB&displaylang=en

Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy

What is this all about? You may get this error when you attempt to browse a site hosted by IIS.

Problem:

The problem can occur due to the order that some of the install components were installed on the machine, normally because the .NET Framework (i.e. .NET 2.0) or Visual Studio 2005 was installed before IIS. Therefore, ASP.NET is not correctly configured to execute. You can also get this error if a particular user account doesn’t have access to IIS metabase.

Solution:

I have successfully been able to fix this issue by running the following command:

aspnet_regiis –i

Run this command from the Visual Studio Command Prompt (from the Visual Studio Tools start menu) or by using DOS command prompt and navigating to the following location C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727 and then run aspnet_regiis –i

The command aspnet_regiis –i will install the ASP.NET and update IIS metabase.

Hope that helps!

Greg Olsen
Yellow Duck Guy