Tag Archives: windows

Win7 updates won’t work

Fresh install of Win7 (refurbished) and updates won’t work, no matter which MS FixIt tools you try? Put this into a .bat file and run it as Administrator:

net stop wuauserv
net stop CryptSvc
ren %windir%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old
ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution sold.old
net start CryptSvc
net start wuauserv
pause

Mulberry & GnuPG

Today I had to install Mulberry – still the best IMAP-client out there :-) – on a fresh Windows 7 install and it took me a while to remember/figure out how to get GPG to work. Export your gpg4win private key/cert using Kleopatra on the old machine and import it on the new one (if you are confused as to where your private key/cert is: importing the private key is enough – it will include the cert and only then prompt for your password). Then, create the following in the registry in “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG”:

Name Type Data
gpgProgram REG_SZ C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg2.exe

Restart Mulberry and check at “About Plugins” whether the GPG has been successfully loaded. It’s already included in Mulberry, but will only load if it can find the binary (gpg2.exe) that we just specified in the registry.

How to make .mp4’s streamable through JW Player

If you’ve created an .mp4, for example through NCH’s VideoPad Video Editor (Windows) and find that the output doesn’t stream (buffer) through JW Player, then you can download QTIndexSwapper.air (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for Windows here: http://renaun.com/blog/code/qtindexswapper and process your buggy .mp4 files through it. Afterwards streaming/buffering will work fine.