Because the artifacts are faint, and you'd need a longer exposure to capture them.

Yes it does, I play it here.

thankyou .....it works

links are dead :(

Thanks, Paul -
Yours was the ONLY solution that worked!

Thanks! That was just the hint I needed to be able subscribe to feedburner based RSS feeds from IE10.

Hmm, it's no longer just distortion.

Just now sound disappeared completely.
Restart of the Windows Audio service fixed it.

Bing Desktop got pushed to my system today without my permission. I'm not 100% sure what did it but it was pushed. I'm suspicious that Security Essentials is what pushed it - updates did not because I have them set to download only and not install because I ALWAYS review what is installed before I do it.

Very true, but I was thinking that maybe you could tell me why "Office Live" is now listed under "Important"?

Last time I checked it didn't add anything anyone really needed, and certainly nothing that should make it show up in the "Important" category if it isn't already installed.

So, if the cross effect is cause by the supports within the telescope, why aren't there these artifacts on all the stars in the photographic field?

Hi, I just want to add another thanks for sharing this info. I am (was) another Audigy 2 ZS/Win7 x64 user that couldn't figure out why my recordings were almost always choppy even after tweaking all sorts of settings in 3 or 4 different audio capture programs. This jury-rig did the trick, so thanks!

I love this article.

i want to see how this astrology(which makes absolutely no sense) helps a person grow in his life.

Did you reach a decision here? I just purchased an LE1700 motion slate, and am debating the same question. Since I will be purchasing the OS for this (empty/no HDD included) I'm really puzzled if windows 8 is the way to go or not.

civ 4 wont run on win8 :( it's a great Os tho

I recently started running into this problem as well, already figured out the restart Windows Audio-service workaround before I ran into this page. Glad I'm not the only one.

It's weird though.

My Audigy 2 ZS Platinum had been catching dust for years (I still don't understand why I stopped using it). Then I put it in my not so old pc with Windows 7 x64 where it worked fine for the first couple of months. Then this problem started occurring.

One moment sound sounds fine, then all of a sudden it's distorted. Restart the Creative Audio service: works fine for about a minute, then it's distorted again.
Restart Windows Audio-service, which also restarts the Creative Audio service, all is well again. Till the next time...

Coincidence or not, I am also using sleep (suspend to RAM) mode and started using it months before the problem started occurring.

Is this related to the problem and is there a permanent fix?

I got a problemo with Call Of Duty 4 and can't find the file that I need which is d3dx9... NEED HELP!

It says a lot about Microsoft that the best backup utility they ever wrote was first released in 1997.

Too bad NTBackup can't do VSS in Windows 7, because if it did, tons of people would still be using it.

Windows 7 backup is a complete joke.

It's not even worthy of being a Visual Basic sample program.

I LIVE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND I USED MY IPHONE STARMAP APP. AND COULD SEE VENUS LOWER LEFT OF MOON AND JUST ABOVE THE MOON THERE WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT THAT MY STARMAP HAD NO ANSWER FOR. I VIDEO TAPED IT FOR ABOUT 30-40 MIN. I PUT IT ONTO MY COMPUTER AND USING VLC PLAYER I ZOOMED IN AND PAUSED AND WENT FRAME BY FRAME AND COULD SEE MOONLIGHT SHOWN BEHIND IT. SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN CLOSER THAN THE MOON,OR THE MOONLIGHT WOULD HAVE GONE IN FRONT OF IT. FRAME BY FRAME IT LOOKED LIKE A METALIC BALL WITH BLACK CIRCLE AND OVAL SHAPES. WHICH MAY OR MAYNOT HAVE BEEN LIGHT DISTORTION.I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS BUT IT LOOKED ABOUT 1/8 OF THE MOONS SIZE ,AND IF IT WAS JUPITER THEN MY STARMAP SHOULD HAVE SHOWN THAT, BUT IT DID NOT.

thanks.. microsoft help sites is sucks.

do u know old civilizations like sumerians how to interpret cosmology ?their mythology

Amazing! I was ready to toss my sound card in the trash and buy a new one, thanks for this solution!

For virtual machines, you can archive an activated VM in a fresh post-install state.
Later, instead of creating a new VM, you just unpack the archive and start using it.
Just remember to use only one such machine at a time..

Nice, do you know anyone who's tried Windows 8 on an LE1600?

Hi, I took my Audigy2 Zs Platinum card from my old XP machine and installed it in a Windows 7, 64 bit, 4 GB RAM
machine and downloaded the W7 drivers from Creative.

Now, I can feed audio into the Audigy inputs and hear it, but cannot record. In Control Panel> Sounds > Recording, the Audigy inputs show up but are marked "Currently Unavailable." Any ideas?

I have been seeing these 2 planets for about a month now in the sky towards the South of where I live... last night was the best.... the cresant moon was inbetween them both.... what a sight !

Thank you. One of the few articles I've seen that isn't full of nonsense. I get a laugh out of the 'apps' mentality; some seem to think 'apps' were invented with the iPhone.

I haven't read the article on Piki Geek, however, the web appears to be ripe with this F.U.D.

I guess you're on a pen-only system. I've just recently gotten a windows 7 tablet (the lenovo X230T convertible) and I have to say, when you're using your fingers, it's amazing. Increase the size of the caption buttons and the window padding and you're fine. That is to say, with only a pen, it doesn't work the same way - this thing has a pretty nice pen, but it doesn't work the same way the finger was. Which doesn't bother me at all, I rarely use the pen for interacting with the computer, I use it almost exclusively for handwriting etc, because I have the finger input method. I guess I can see, though, it wouldn't be too great with just a pen. Basically, with fingers, you can drag to scroll, but that doesn't work with the pen - only flicks work with the pen. And then, Internet Explorer doesn't like some...
On the other hand, it seems Windows 8 hasn't solved your problem - personally, I can't stand Windows 8, it's going way backwards - not in terms of the look, which is great, but in terms of functionality. You can't even look at more than two windows at the same time!!! Not to mention, it seems like Microsoft is locking down the Metro interface, and Windows on ARM, just like Apple locks down their iOS devices - no installing stuff on YOUR device unless approved by MICROSOFT. I'll decide what I'll run on my system, thank you very much. Seems like an operating system to skip. Windows 9 had better be an improvment on Windows 7, not on iOS, like Windows 8.

i hAve htc hd 2 i chaged the aku but it still gives the errorr plz help wat should i do

thanks

Luckily, any compatibility problems (maybe except WMP, I don't use WMP) can be solved by installing Rockbox on the iPod. It reads a lot of lossless music formats, allows me to organize my music the way I want and adding new music is as simple as copying the files.

P.S. It supports iPod Classic too

The solution worked perfectly! Thank you!

Great article.

I find it very funny how the IE-haters will ALWAYS find an excuse to hate IE, no matter what. And how funny most of them often don't have their facts correct.

Im using a sony ericsson X2 can you please tell me where on the phone i can make the changes.Thanks

I am Using Audigy2 zs, last time i was using windows XP and now i am using Windows 7 and i am having problems to reinstall the driver

THANK YOU! That was much needed. I run a multi-display desktop and was at my wit's end on getting the remote desktop client to show up on Screen 2!

Back to normal now.

Thanks! I can record audio and run Spectrogram in Windows 7 now. I can confirm that this works on my setup:
- SB Audigy 2 Platinum Ex (What U Hear)
- Windows 7 64-bit
- 8 GB RAM (w/ the 4095 KB memory limit)

I wonder if there's a way to make a .bat file to automate the 4095 memory limit-- I'd like to make a desktop shortcut to make this process even quicker.

It's a moot point either way. Windows update is meant to deliver updates not MS branded software as it has expanded to include under the "optional" header. Microsoft needs to decide if they want an app store or an update system and make a practical decision to keep them separate. Throwing your hands in the air and saying "well it is optional" is naive. Technically .NET is optional. The point is when I pay for an OS for my business I expect support for that product not a never ending up-sell via update. Offering the "Bing Bar" as an update to Windows Home users I could maybe see as acceptable. But pushing it out to Pro is frankly silly. Really what IT Admin worth their salt leaves the home page and default search engine set to Bing, or even IE as the default web browser for that mater? Yes thankfully bing bar is not installed automatically. Perhaps Microsoft learned something from the fiasco auto installing IE9 caused for businesses. Obviously they haven't learned quite enough yet.

Thankkkkkkksssssssssssss Boss

I agree with the detailed analysis, but I believe another relevant aspect of the Bing Desktop update has been missed. Normally, Windows update allows AND HONOURS the ability to hide updates. With this Bing Desktop update, however, while you're allowed to select "Hide Update", it reverts to a visible optional update on the next Windows Update cycle i.e. it does not honour the hide setting.

That's not Chaotic Evil, but it's also pretty far away from Lawful Good -- at best it's Chaotic Neutral.

For the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would ever buy anything put out by Apple. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. fortunately for Apple, most of the wannabe hipster kids who buy this shit are to young to know about apples past. Doesn't realy matter though, both Apple and MS are quickly being replaced by Android anyway, making the whole Apple VS MS thing a moot point. Hell, even our military is dumping both companies for Android based systems.

Okay, so Digital Trends are going a little overboard. But this *is* a move by MS that smacks of a desperation to steal a few points in Search market share from Google.

I daresay only a very small percentage of users would say yes if asked flat out, "Would you like a Bing search bar in the middle of your desktop?". Basically, the same percentage of users already using Bing instead of Google for search. I.e., not many.

As a knowledgeable and not-at-all anti-MS user, I was able to avoid this update without any trouble. But I don't appreciate feeling like I have to carefully police my updates just to avoid unnecessary crap.

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you! For years I have just been restarting my computer when this happened!!

Thank you ... pulling my hair out with win 8, several functions not working, at least I can now remote desktop into my office computer.

"This mutation was beneficial because it better protected the body from ultra-violent radiation (previously our hair protected us against it), and alas it spread throughout the population."

Unfortunate use of the word alas here. Meriam Webster defines alas as an interjection "used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern." I doubt you think that humans developing dark skin is something to be woeful about, perhaps you can change your wording?

Otherwise, I just found your website, and so far I've enjoyed reading your stuff.

Maybe, there was some way back when astrology that actually held some accuracy. But, after looking up my moon sign info (online mind you) I am OFFENDED by how off the description is. I went looking for a birth certificate, time and date of birth, and really thought I was going to get some great intuition about myself and instead I come across pure bullcrap. I am not exaggerating when I say that nearly each quality of "moon in scorpio" assessment was a pure and utter contradiction to my actual personality, lifestyle, and so on. The only thing that was accurate was that I love a hot bath...Well, who doesn't? I saw more of myself in other moon signs that are not mine (virgo, libra) than the one I supposedly belong to. If you'd asked me before what signs I knew weren't mine just based on my life and traits, voila, those would have been scorpio and sagg. Modern astrology is a big disappointment and in my case it is utter crap as well- either that or my birth certificate is wrong and fraudulent. Whatever the case, I'm still disappointed.

I HAVE A Sound Blaster Audigy platinum sound card now I had to change my OS to win7 I need all the drives for abilitaded all fucions of that again but here please help me to work on it at win 7 please.

Creationists are either dumb delusional or misled. Explain dinosaurs. Yep you can't. Dragons? where the heck are the wings? How in the world is that T-rex gonna fly, even with wings? And how the heck is the world is the wold population gonna start from only two people? That's a lot of inbreeding, and how come we don't have 3 legs or 20 toes by now?

Astigmatism (eye)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism_%28eye%29

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3688271/Main/3683595

Ha, of course I am here because I am having that horrible experience of adding music to the flapple ipod kerfuffle that my wife was given as a promo gift and my daughter uses. Every *time* I forget that you can't do the normal thing which is to just dump files on the drive that you can see mounted on your PC. Why? Please someone provide a sensible and practical reason for this. Suddenly having to learn another way of moving an electronic file from one drive to another is just wrong.
I have to say that really though it isn't just Apple, it's also the whole strange way that media files are managed generally. I just don't see why it suddenly all goes weird just because it is music.

I can prove that rods can be paranormal I have videos of them appearing from nothing but a light source and they make noises like jets flying around. Please check out my YouTube site at www.youtube.com/lunaticn2006. I have evidence on there of anything from ghost to demons to orbs and rods and aliens to heaven and hell.