The Generic Windows 7 hints, tips, and info thread

It's new, it's different, and we might as well share useful info we come across - replacements for programs that no longer work under Win7, hints, tips, etc.

Here's my first contribution: A list of tutorials for Win7
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/257-w...rial-index.html

My early favorite: How to get the Aurora screensaver back in Win7. (It's a fairly nice representation of the aurora borealis.)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7221-...er-restore.html

To set up Exact Audio Copy (EAC) under Win7, and Win7 64-bit, there are still a few rough edges/compatibility issues.

First, EAC will crash if you use a non-existent directory, or one you have insufficient privileges for. To fix this, go thru the setup dialogs and manually enter a known good drive path. You won't be surfing around the dialogs and decoding files to this and that dir until they get it fixed. In the meantime, set your dirs manually, let them default, and copy your mp3's where you want them after the fact.

The above solved an issue I was having. More info in the link below:
http://www.digital-inn.de/exact-audio-copy...bug-report.html

Now I can rip CD's to MP3's using EAC, but I still can't get wav's to convert to MP3's. 🙁 Can't get that to work yet, as EAC just quits/crashes when I drag the .wav file to the EAC window. I ran as Administrator, and it doesn't crash, but neither does it work. I tried putting the .wav file in the EAC directory, and in the directory to which it saves ripped MP3's successfully, but it didn't help.


There is also an issue with EAX and Adobe Drive, which is installed with Adobe CS4, and maybe some other Adobe products. Here is the fix for that:
http://www.digital-inn.de/exact-audio-copy...-vista-x64.html

Getting FLAC FRONTEND to run in Windows 7 (WIN7)
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm

If you get the following error:
"Component 'MSCOMCTL.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly
registered: a file is missing or invalid."

You can download mscomctl.ocx here:
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/download/MSCOMCTL.ZIP

copy mscomctl.ocx to your Windows/syswow64 directory

Open an elevated command prompt:
Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
Right-click on Command Prompt, and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

Then type the following

cd ..
cd syswow64
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx

If it worked, you should get a pop-up notification say that it SUCCEEDED.


Or you could replace FRAC FRONTEND with this program - Trader's Little Helper:
http://tlh.easytree.org/

Wish I'd thought of that before spending 2 hours solving this. . .

Thanks for the EAC info. I actually didn't even try because I figured it wouldn't work.