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the unknown pervert
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3243 Posts
5/06
Posted - Dec 1 2008 : 8:56PM
I've been using MS Media Center to edit my photos the last couple of days and have had a couple of times where after I clicked on Next instead of the next photo in the folder appearing a post Dean Wormer made here at ADT pops up. When it does it is in a Salvador Dalish form like those little "type the following characters" messages where each character is a different color and in a different font you get to confirm something on some sites.
Harri Patel
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3/03
Posted - Dec 1 2008 : 10:53PM
Wormer gets evil when he has a few bourbons in him.
the unknown pervert
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3243 Posts
5/06
Posted - Dec 2 2008 : 7:34PM
It only did it a couple of times but each time completely froze up Media Center. I had to shut it down and start over both times.
Jordan1
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490 Posts
7/08
Posted - Dec 4 2008 : 7:44PM
I have Media Center also. I'm a little confused on what exactly you did. Can you try to explain further? I'm not sure, but I might be able to help. Oh by the way, is it XP or Vista?
Mine is XP, so I'm not sure if there has been any major changes on features and/or functionality between the two.
the unknown pervert
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5/06
Posted - Dec 5 2008 : 9:59AM
I'm using XP too. I have a bunch of photos in various files and I was diddling with the contrast and cropping some of them. A couple of times when I clicked on "Next" while in Photo Features instead of the next photo in the folder coming up the aforementioned Dean Wormer post from ADT popped up. Other than shutting down and restarting Media Center it did not affect anything but I thought it was odd.
 
Jordan1
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490 Posts
7/08
Posted - Dec 5 2008 : 8:42PM
That is very strange indeed. I don't how it's possible that a post could show up in a program designed for pictures. Have you ever used Online Spotlight? Maybe somehow the use of it caused some sort of co-mingling in the two features.
Is the post in the form of a picture, or in a live link?
Also, do you own the full version remote-control the for Media Center? I own both. My computer came with the condensed version.
The full version is 1 hex better. Luckily a friend of mine who happens to own a newer version of my computer gave me the better one because they don't use Media Center. It makes things easier to use and might help to avoid such problems.
Here is a scanned pic of the two of them.
Full Version
Picture 137X.jpg
Condensed Version
Picture 136X.jpg
Another excellent alternative that's free for editing pics is Paint.Net. The head honcho is none other than Rick Brewster of the lead design team that made the Paint program which comes on all PC's.
It's basically the Paint program on steroids, and very similar to Photoshop, but a little less intimidating to use.
It also has the capability to add plug-ins for even more versatility which has the links for the plug-ins on the site. It also has a robust help Forum where depending on whether someone else on his development team can answer a question, he will answer.
It's based on C++ and you must have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed for it to work. All you have to do is try to install it and it will recognize whether or not it's installed.
If not, it will redirect you to the appropriate MS webpage to download it.
RandomPrecision
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8175 Posts
3/06
Posted - Dec 6 2008 : 1:01AM
All I can say is it's Microsoft. I've never really used Media Center. I started using Irfanview about a month after I got my first computer and at that time, the built in Windows picture viewer was such a sad piece of shit it put me off of the internal picture viewer forever. Irfanview ain't perfect but it's probably still better than Media Center. Sometimes, Windows just goes haywire. I have no idea why. I don't think MS does either.
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3/02
Posted - Dec 6 2008 : 1:10AM
The post from Dean Wormer is in your internet temp folder. It is in weird colors because Media Center doesn't understand HTML (or whatever coding drew is using on the website). It is appearing instead of your desired picture because your file system is messed up.
Here are some things you can try, in the order you should try them:
1. Run CCleaner or some other utility that will remove all your temp files. Removing the 'Dean Wormer file' will force an update in the file system which should correct the problem.
2. Do a full repair of your registry.
3. Copy the folder containing the photos that is causing the problem somewhere else on your drive; delete the original folder. Do NOT simply move the entire folder, as this may not correct the bad pointer in your file system. Doing a full copy will generate new pointers for the new folder; subsequently deleting the original folder will clear out the original pointers, whereupon it should be safe to move the copied folder back to the original location.
4. Do a complete defrag on your hard drive - this should mark any bad sectors Windows has failed to discover.



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