could not load microsoft windows media player firefox plugin in Chrome

I was having this issue.

1. Check Windows Media Player is installed on your box. Control Panel - Windows Features - Media Features - Windows Media Player.
2. Install the Firefox Plugin from here http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download
3. Install the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome from here http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/wmp-extension-for-chrome

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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 I have the latest version, (I even got the apk and installed manually), also I can't remote install any app that I used to. I wiped Google Play, uninstalled updates, also wiped Google Play Services data, still nothing. I had given it up as because I was on a custom rom, but I noticed the other day that my Google Talk app wasn't working, no matter what I did it wouldn't work.

So decided to reinstall the gapps from. Goo.im Downloads This fixed my Google Talk issues and it fixed my Google Play issues, I assume Google sends down messages using Google Talk, which then uses IPC to call Google Play to start off the downloads, or not. Hope this helps someone else.

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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 threw an error saying it can't.

runas /user:NoPerms TaskScheduler.exe

I then gave permissions to "%SystemRoot%\Tasks" and it still wouldn't work, after some searching I figured out there is another Tasks folder in "%SystemRoot%\System32\Tasks" That is all that is needed.

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