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** UPDATE ** All 6 License keys have now been given away.

I have 6 free licensed copies of WinX Blu-ray (valued @ $39.95!) to give away that I received from Digiarty Software. The first 6 people to comment on this post will get the licenses, one per person.
Make sure to include your email address in the comment form.

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter (DESCRIPTION)

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is a professional Blu-ray decrypting and copy tool for users to decrypt and backup Blu-ray to M2TS video file or Blu-ray folder (compatible with Win7 Media Player). It is able to remove and decrypt encryption (AACS MKB v25), BD+ copy protection, etc. in Blu-ray disc. With this program, you can effortlessly protect your beloved Blu-ray discs from scratch or loss.

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is an ideal Blu-ray backup solution which supports both Full Disc Blu-ray Backup and Title Copy modes. It allows you to decrypt Blu-ray Disc with all known copy protections and encryptions and backup 3D Blu-ray to 2D video in only 3 clicks. It also brings fast decrypting speed while preserving original video/audio quality. If you are looking for powerful software to backup and decrypt Blu-ray video disc, WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is the way to go.

Product URL : http://www.winxdvd.com/blu-ray-decrypter/

PS: These license codes are valid before Nov.15, 2011. Please register it before expiration date.

Enjoy!

“A media usage rights error has occurred. For help fixing this problem, click Web Help. Error Code C00D12F5″

I have received this message a few times after reformatting or moving things around.
Here are the instructions to fix it.

Step 1

Download the DRM reset exe from Microsoft: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=105000.

Step 2

Run the exe.

Step 3

Restart your Zune Software. That should fix your issue.

Step 1

Download shaftys023 modified email.apk file here.
You will have to register at the forum to download it (its free and fast). I didn’t want to host it/steal it

Step 2

On your DROID, pull down the menu at top and “select to copy files to/from your computer.” (hook your phone up to PC)

Step 3

Copy over the downloaded email.apk file to a directory on your phone.

Step 4

Install ASTRO manager (file manager). This is free in the marketplace, just search ASTRO.

Step 5

Launch ASTRO, browse to your email.apk file, click on it, select “app manager” and then click “upgrade.” (this will overwrite your current email.apk)

Step 6

Setup your exchange 2010 account and enjoy!
Launch ASTRO manager

Zune Pass

I have the x64 Zune software installed on my home computer, work computer, and laptop; so I am using the three total already that you are allowed. The annoyance I had was syncing the new content between all of my computers. Microsoft’s website and support says that you have to manually click the “Restore All” option when you are at a computer with out of date content.

Zune - Restore All

And that works ok… but there is a much better way that syncs everything automatically, without ever having to manually update it.
I am referring to the new Windows Live Mesh software.

Windows Live Mesh

For those of you who might have tried this software earlier and disliked it, try it again as they have improved it a lot. Basically what we are going to do is setup Windows Live Mesh to sync our subscription folder between computers.

Step #1

Install Windows Live Mesh on each computer you have your Zune Software on.
(Download wlsetup-web.exe)

Step #2

Windows Live Mesh is part of Windows Essentials, and if you are like me, you don’t want all of the software. So after you launch wlsetup-web.exe, select “Choose the programs you want to install.”

Windows Essentials

Step #3

Choose Windows Live Mesh, uncheck everything else, and click install.

Windows Live Mesh Selection

Step #4

Login to Windows Live Mesh.

Sign in to Windows Live Mesh

Step #5

Click on “Sync a folder”.

Sync Folder - Windows Live Mesh

Step #6

Browse to your Music folder and click on your “Subscription” folder, then hit sync.

Live Mesh - Subscription

Step #7

Repeat this procedure on your other computers and anytime you download new music, podcasts, etc… they will immediately sync with Windows Live Mesh to your other computers. I have been using this method for about 3 months and it works great!

Aimersoft - Virtual Driver

I use Aimersoft WMA converter for multiple purposes, some of which I won’t go into

But recently I have been receiving an error, “Virtual Driver is not installed” when trying to convert audio files. That was getting very frustrating. I finally realized that Aimersoft had installed 5 virtual devices onto my computer, as seen in Device Manager.

aimersoft- virtual devices

So what I had to do to fix the error was right click on each device, select uninstall, and then check “Delete the driver software for this device.”

aimersoft-delete

Then I had to launch Aimersoft WMA converter, or music converter, and go to “Option” menu and then to the “Processing” tab and click “Driver Check”. It then reinstalled the drivers, and the 5 virtual devices and no more error!

aimersoft-reinstall

Hooray. By the way, clicking this Driver Check button first didn’t fix the issue for me without first deleting the virtual devices, it might for some though.

I have been using the new Internet Explorer 9 in beta and have actually been enjoying it. Looks like Microsoft is finally getting the ball rolling. However, being beta it definitley still has some issues.
A big error I have come across has become a big nuisance. Whenever I go to download something I get this error. (file and website have been removed)

IE9 download error

The one way I have found to fix this is to press CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE and then select delete ‘download history’.

IE9 - Clear Download History

Once you do that, you have to close IE9 and restart it. This works about 80% of the time.

Also, another problem I have had is that Flash will just stop working and I have to reinstall the latest version of Adobe Flash from here.

If anyone else has fixes for the downloading problem, please post! Thank you.

The vbs script is a little nicer than version one (CMD) because it runs without any windows and in my opinion vbs scripts just run smoother . Also, it is a single file and the tutorial has less steps.

So for all of you who grabbed version one, lol, grab version 2!!! And if you are using WIM images, you can simply mount your image, replace the script, and unmount/commit.

Repeat instructions are below:

When running sysprep in Windows 7 with the unattend.xml file, you will probably notice that the taskbar icons are something that don’t copy over. Well that is because the icons are not part of the users profile. So the copyprofile=true command does work for almost everything, but it doesn’t copy over your taskbar icons. So here is a script that will do it for you.

Step #1

Download the vbs script (11kb). Click Here to Download or Right Click and Save Target As….
You might have to remove the .txt extension when you are downloading the script. You are going to drop this script into the correct place during audit mode.

Step #2

Copy the vbs script into the startup folder in the start menu.

Step #3

The vbs script unpins WMP, IE, and Windows Explorer and then repins the icons in the order you want. My file has this order:

Windows Explorer, IE, Firefox, Word, Excel, Outlook, WMP

Step #4

Now run sysprep as you normally would and the script is copied into the default profile. That means for every new user, the script pins the icons in the order you want, the script then deletes itself and never runs again. For the correct procedure on sysprepping your machine, read my Windows 7 Sysprep Tutorial.