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Inker
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05-05-2009, 7:00 PM
In my case, it was the Logitech Process Monitor that was causing the problem; the LPM is a stupid little program that comes with some Logitech webcams and tries to inject itself into nearly every process it finds so that it can do silly effects on the picture (warps, filters, and other pointless sparkly things) if the process tries to use the ...
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Inker
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04-19-2009, 6:38 PM
Disabling the irritating Logitech "Process Monitor" service got WPI to go a little farther, but it's still dying on SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express. Or PowerShell. Or both. It's hard to tell from the error messages.
The funny thing is that PowerShell is installed and works just fine; WPI seems to be ...
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Inker
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04-02-2009, 5:21 PM
For what it's worth, you have alternatives to IIS available.
First, for small single pages, you can just open them in IE directly. If you're just learning HTML, that may be the best way to do it.
If you really need a full-blown web server, and IIS isn't a viable option, you could consider xampp ( ...
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Inker
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04-02-2009, 4:37 PM
I've sent you full copies of the logs involved.
It looks like for some bizarre reason the SQL Express installer is trying to install itself on the wrong drive: It somehow found an old unused beta copy of Vista (beta2, I think; it's ancient) sitting in a partition that is long overdue for being reformatted, and it seems to think ...
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Inker
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04-02-2009, 3:37 PM
Found 'em. Here are the two logfiles from the most recent reboot:
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Starting install sequence
ThreadId=3
DateTime=2009-04-02T19:06:49.1562500Z
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Starting IIS 5.1/6.0 component install
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Inker
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04-02-2009, 2:30 PM
For the record, the "%localappdata%/Microsoft/Web Platform Installer" directory contains only a "webpi.preferences" file --- there are no logs explaining why this is just rebooting over and over (and yes, "show hidden and system files" is always enabled on my computers).
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Inker
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04-02-2009, 2:15 PM
So today I decided to try the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta, and I told it to install everything. I didn't have any of the web platform stuff installed before this; we've been an exclusively Linux shop, and I was trying to broaden my horizons a little.
The computer in question runs WinXP SP3, is fully patched, is regularly tested ...