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Fixed: View Canon CR2 Raw file thumbnails in Windows 7 64-bit

Admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:32 +0000

So apparently Canon hasn’t gotten around to writing a Windows 7 64-bit compatible driver for viewing their digital camera CR2 RAW images as thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Easy fix: these guys at FastPictureViewer have it as a free download here.

Fixed: Gmail Notifier Won’t Connect

Admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:43:33 +0000

I use Gmail Notifier on my desktop PC so that Gmail handles all mailto: links, but I don’t really care for it as a notifier. But if you do install it and get the error message ”Cannot connect to your mailbox”, it may be because you’ve set your Gmail account to only use https, which the notifier is incompatible. So Google has a Windows registry fix/patch for that. Problem solved.

Fixed: M-Audio Fast Track Pro drops out

Admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:22:24 +0000

My primary audio card on my desktop PC is an M-Audio Fast Track Pro and after I had upgraded to the retail version of Windows 7, it would periodically just stop working (dropout). The sound would not play and some videos would refuse to play since no audio output was available. This would usually happen after I had been away from my computer for a few hours, meaning after no sound had been played for a while. I suspected it might be shutting off after inactivity, but it would also happen only a couple minutes after the most recent audio was played.

I did the usual and made sure I had the latest drivers, uninstalled, reinstalled the device, changed USB ports, etc. I also followed some advice on the M-Audio forums including checking for IRQ conflicts. But the problem persisted, and I finally went to check what I had suspected all along: Windows’ USB power management

THE FIX: Go to Device Manager > Universal Serial Bus controllers > and then right click Properties on all instances of USB Root Hub, and in the Power Management tab, make sure the first option is unchecked. (Source: M-Audio FAQ)