could not load microsoft windows media player firefox plugin in Chrome

I was having this issue. Check Windows Media Player is installed on your box. Control Panel - Windows Features - Media Features - Windows Media Player. Install the Firefox Plugin from here http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download Install the Windows...

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Google Play services won't update and can't remote install

I have been having issues for a few months with Google Play and my Nexus One running MIUI. Whenever I went to Google Play Store I'd get the following error.  But checking the phone showed that...

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Least amount of permissions for creating scheduled tasks in Windows 7

I am currently looking at creating Scheduled tasks and I needed to find the permissions needed for creating Schedudled Tasks, usually I would use ProcMon and look for ACCESS_DENIED but it wasn't helping me. Firstly I created a user with zero permissions and ran my tool that would create a Task, it...

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Disable OpenFeint in Android for Rooted Phones

I really despise OpenFeint integration in any of my games, I noticed on Play store there was an app called CloseFeint which would disable it but the comments aren't great for it. I therefore looked into it, it is adding a few entries to my hosts file. 127.0.0.1 api.openfeint.com 127.0.0.1...

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failed to load sesison ubuntu

I just came across this issue with upgrading packages in 12.04 before I made the upgrade to 12.10 (since I've been having issues with ATi graphics drivers). On load I couldn't get into my session. What I did was CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to console, logged in and then ran sudo apt-get update &&...

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Windows Media Sharing stopped working.

I tried everything I could think of to get it working. The answer was to disable Internet Connection Shari...

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hg mecurial abort: path is inside nested repo error

Just been having to use Mecurial to get the Orchard source code. I first used TortoiseHg to get the source and then used the Update command to switch to 1.x "branch" but I'd always get this error. abort: path 'src\Orchard.Web\Modules\Orchard.Alias\AdminMenu.cs' is inside nested repo 'src\\Orchard.Web\\Modules\\Orchard.Alias' So...

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System WindowsFirewall: "query user incoming"

Or just Windows Media Player Network Sharing failing over mixed network on Windows 7, by default if you are on the same subnet it'll work. I had Xbox on 192.168.0.250 and sharing it on to my Wireless network of 192.168.1.x range, so I was getting the above error. I had to go to Windows Firewall in...

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Instant Upload continually syncing

I was having an issue with Google+'s feature of Instant Uploading all my pictures, it would never complete so I had to disable it. To fix this, disable Instant Upload in Accounts & Sync settings, go into Programs and find Google+, clear the data of it and then re-enable it. This should fix ...

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Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler - Could not start IIS.

I have had this issue a few times and I always forget how to fix it. Could not start IIS. RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Exceptions.CannotStartSessionException at  . .Launch() at ? . . ? () Caused by: Could not start IIS. RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Exceptions.CannotStartIisSessionException at...

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Solr 3.5 spatial (geofilt) search with distance in results

Took a bit of tinkering around but here's my query. LatLong is my field in my document with a "latitude,longitude" in it. d=30. Distance is KMs. http://solrserver/select? indent=true& fl=Name,LatLong,score& fq={!geofilt pt=50000,-0.11111 sfield=LatLong d=30}& sfield=LatLong& ...

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Android not picking up MP3's

My Android Phone (Nexus one running MIUI) sometimes doesn't find my MP3's, especially after a ROM update. I loaded up the MP3 using  http://www.mp3tag.de/en/  and I either update it or just save it, it then seems to fix the ID3 tags and then it is picked up on my phone. You may also...

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requested operation cant be performed on file with user-mapped section open

I have been getting this error constantly, I had to kill Visual Studio and restart and sometimes it'd go away. Managed to track it down to FxCop trying to scan the assemblies still. Killing the FxCop process, killed VS too. Time to uninstall for now me thin...

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Internet Explorer 8 crashing Background Image

We have just been having an issue that was causing Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista when it had a background image. It seems to be related to jQuery 1.7.0 and probably this ticket. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10629 Updating to 1.7.1 made the issue go awa...

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