Friday, December 08, 2006
I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate and I found that my Messenger Live Beta 8.1 keeps crashing. I guess this is not an issue for everyone, but it is for me. I Googled the problem and found a great post by Mary Jo Foley http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=103
This is the fix that Mary Jo put out there from MS. Read her post for all the details.
The Microsoft-suggested workaround:
1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program, then select Flash Player)
2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash
3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install
It seems that Messenger is working much better and that I can actually use my sharing folders now (w00t !). Just wish they could play together nicely right out of the box.
Hope this helps
-paul
I have been working on a cool new plugin for Team Foundation Server and decided it was time to run the msi to see how it worked outside of the hive. I created the msi and tried to run it on my Vista machine and found that it kept failing to install. The reason for this is that it was not running as the Admin. When I right-click the msi there was no option to run it as the Admin, so I had to Google around to see what I could find out. I ran across a post (forgot the link) and found that I could kick off the install if I put the command in a batch file and ran that as the admin. Well it worked so here is what I did.
Open Notepad and enter the following:
msiexec /i <enter path to msi>
Save as MyVSPacakge.bat
right-click and select "Run as Administrator"
Thats it. Quite simple to get the install to work now.
Hope this helps
-paul