Mar 052011
 

With Recent Flash upgrade to version 10.2, I faced a a strange issue with regarding to playing videos on youtube. all video I played on main site or yourtube video embedded in other sites like facebook were in red color, while the audio was playing just fine. something like in screenshot below:

Youtube showing red color video due to Flash

Youtube showing red color video due to Flash

It turns out that this is a bug in Adobe Flash Player 10.2 introduced because adobe enabled hardware acceleration to for all users, but in case hw accel does not work properly. video will appear in weird colors. while adbobe is working on the bugfix, the current workaround is to disable Hardware acceleration.

WorkAround:

  1. Goto http://www.youtube.com/swf_test.html Continue reading »
Feb 242011
 

Trying to upgrade or install Microsoft security essentials Version 2 an it fails with the following error

The instruction at 0x75ef3fbf referenced memory at 0x00xxxxx. The Memory could not be read

And the error dialogs looks similar to ones given below? Then Read on on how to fix this:

 

Microsoft Security Essentials Version 2 Upgrade Error dialog

Error While Upgrading to Version 2

Microsoft Security Essentials version 2 installation error dialog

Same error, when trying to install a fresh copy MSE v2

 

The Problem Explained

This issue may have been caused as some of Microsoft Security Essentials (Version 1) files would have got corrupted during the upgrade process on your computer or some for worse, some important system files need by windows have have been effected. In my case,   Continue reading »