Cameron's IT stumbles

In my searching for a solution to the following problem I saw a lot of people out there suffering the same pains, but no one seemed to have a solution. So I wanted to post my fix, there's a bit of work to be done to get a more secure fix but for me this works. If you're using the auto align option in qtpfsgui with hugin's align_image_stack and after clicking Next and waiting a few minutes you get an error: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program C:\Program Files\qtpfsgui-windows-EXE-v1.9.2\qtpfsgui.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact the applications' support team for more information. I've found the problem. I took someone's advice and tried to use align_image_stack from the command line (its an executable included in the qtpfsgui installation). I noticed an error which seemed to relate to a problem creating output files. The output files, by default, are put in the folder the ...

I'm not sure how it happened but I just went to the command prompt and my TAB key didn't work as expected. Instead of completing the cd Prog I had just typed it inserted a tab character. I located the fix for this here: http://www.petri.co.il/automatic_completion_with_a_command_prompt.htm Basically the solution it to set the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\ CompletionChar to 0x9. For some reason mine had been set to 0x1a. Change it back to 0x9 and reload the command prompt and everything is working as expected again.

For a while now I've been having a small problem with my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. Whenever I inserted an SD card in the onboard reader I got an error "Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". I decided today to research it further. I thought I'd start with HP's support and see what they had to say... the answer, nothing I hadn't already tried. I installed the latest card reader drivers from hp.com and restarted, no joy. I blasted the reader with air to remove any dust, no joy. When looking at one forum about a similiar issue on a Dell laptop someone meantioned that a BIOS update broke theirs and rolling it back fixed it. So I installed the latest BIOS update from hp. Version F.32 was released 2009-03-25 and can be found here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-69499-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=2093&product=3722021 I've just installed and restarted and my ...