In preparation for future Vista Media Center updates (which may or may not be available to some users) - the downloadable setup packages (.MSI) for the Big Screen Products (Weather v2, Headlines v2 and Photos v2) were updated on the bigscreenglobal.com website. Although the changes are 'theoretical' (in lieu of actually having a new version to test) - these updated installers relax some of the pre-install checks previously made (which specifically checked for the RTM release of Vista Media Center only) - plus fix some cosmetic elements of the program library entries (ie. updated install/launch icons).
You'll (probably) only need to worry about these updated installers if you are installing the Big Screen products on a 'new' version of Vista Media Center (post RTM). If you have previously installed the desired Big Screen product successfully - and you have updated your Vista Media Center afterwards (via some form of update package) - then the products should continue to work as before.
As such - please note that the actual products have not been updated (and remain the same as the previous releases - and have same revision numbers) - as changes were made to the install scripts only.
One exception to this is that the Weather v2 installer now includes the updated data file (see
Big Screen Weather 2 Update Patch for Australian Radars for more details and a download link).
Please visit the existing download pages for these products to get the new installers. (as before - you'll need to be registered on
http://bigscreenglobal.com in order to download these products and obtain serial numbers).
Please let me know if anyone has problems with the updated installers!
cheers
Niall Ginsbourg / bigscreenglobal.com
Big Screen Installers Updated (for 'future' Vista Media Center Releases)
