Vista: New util: MC Menu Mender

[gaz_az]

Originally Posted by surge

I had a similar error.

Does this beta need an unmodified MC menu?

Mine is currently modified with your original program and I also modified my Menu text by modifying the mui file.

I changed "Pictures + Videos" to simply read "Pictures"

Mine is unmodded !

[surge]

Originally Posted by gaz_az

Mine is unmodded !

bummer, I was hoping that was the issue. it is a beta, so I'll have to wait.

[Advent]

Originally Posted by gaz_az

Advent - tried the program but couldn't get it to to run, it just gives a very long error message. Was able to set the permissions for the two files, and run as an administrator but no luck. Here is my log.txt...

gazaz

Sorry, my bad I was checking for file not found, but didn't think about directory not found. This is caused by a registry entry that was left behind after you uninstalled MyMovies. I'll upload a fix for this in the next few days, but in the meantime you can get it to start by creating the directory C:\Program Files\MCE\My Movies.

Surge, your problem may be similar - if it is, you can locate the directory that is missing by looking at the end of the first line in the log file.

[surge]

I checked my log file again and I thought it was a missing directory, but it's something else.. I've attached the log file and here's the first line of the error.

MCMenuMender.exe Warning: 0 : Could not find image set resource. Image set: Radio.FM.Preset Image ID: Default
DateTime=2008-04-08T00:57:39.9260000Z


thanks.

[Advent]

Originally Posted by surge

I checked my log file again and I thought it was a missing directory, but it's something else.. I've attached the log file and here's the first line of the error.

MCMenuMender.exe Warning: 0 : Could not find image set resource. Image set: Radio.FM.Preset Image ID: Default
DateTime=2008-04-08T00:57:39.9260000Z


thanks.

Cheers surge - that line is actually expected, but the next bit isn't! I'll look into it - thanks for the bug report.

[baturbo]

I did not adhere to the below rule:
"When moving built in links between strips, make sure the link's original strip is before the one you're moving it to in the list - otherwise VMC will crash on startup. This is to do with the way that VMC loads the menu - I'll try to resolve this in the future but it may not be possible."

Now I can not remember the order that everything should be in. Could somebody please post all strips and links in default order.

Thanks in advance.

[Advent]

Originally Posted by baturbo

I did not adhere to the below rule:
"When moving built in links between strips, make sure the link's original strip is before the one you're moving it to in the list - otherwise VMC will crash on startup. This is to do with the way that VMC loads the menu - I'll try to resolve this in the future but it may not be possible."

Now I can not remember the order that everything should be in. Could somebody please post all strips and links in default order.

Thanks in advance.

There should be a file ehres_backup.dll in your c:\windows\ehome directory. Overwrite ehres.dll with a copy of this file (make a copy, delete ehres.dll, rename the copy to ehres.dll) and you're back to the default configuration. Otherwise, try to make sure each link is back on the strip that it came from originally (the order of the strips doesn't matter if this is the case).

[gaz_az]

Originally Posted by Advent

Sorry, my bad I was checking for file not found, but didn't think about directory not found. This is caused by a registry entry that was left behind after you uninstalled MyMovies. I'll upload a fix for this in the next few days, but in the meantime you can get it to start by creating the directory C:\Program Files\MCE\My Movies.

Worked fine - Now I can get the program to run, but can't change anything ...

I disable ehtray in task manager.
Take control ehres.dll and ehres.dll.mui (take ownership and edit permissions)
Run the MC program as administrator.


Made a few changes, pressed save (which didn't give an error message), then ran VMC. No change at all in it, still the same. What I did notice was I can't seem to permanently take control of the ehres.dll and ehres.dll.mui. It appears to work ok at first, but after I checked them again following using MC it had reverted back again.

any ideas ??

[cjvs]

First of all, thanks for this brilliant piece of software. It worked out fine the first few times. However, after installing "Media Control" and ffdshow it started generating the attached error message including the same line as in this post:

Originally Posted by surge

I checked my log file again and I thought it was a missing directory, but it's something else.. I've attached the log file and here's the first line of the error.

MCMenuMender.exe Warning: 0 : Could not find image set resource. Image set: Radio.FM.Preset Image ID: Default
DateTime=2008-04-08T00:57:39.9260000Z


thanks.

My log starts with the following line, and this seems to be similar:

MCMenuMender.exe Warning: 0 : Could not find image set resource. Image set: Radio.FM.Preset Image ID: Default
DateTime=2008-04-08T18:36:32.8544127Z

Hope this helps in finding the error. Please let the wife know your work is highly appreciated! However, not being able to run it does not allow me to press the donate button yet...

[nigeltrevo]

Quick script for anyone to use, which takes ownership and gives you edit permissions on the necessary files (useful):

takeown /a /f %SYSTEMROOT%\ehome\ehres.dll
icacls %SYSTEMROOT%\ehome\ehres.dll /Grant Administrators:F

takeown /a /f %systemroot%\ehome\en-US\ehres.dll.mui
icacls %systemroot%\ehome\en-US\ehres.dll.mui /Grant Administrators:F

[gaz_az]

Originally Posted by nigeltrevo

Quick script for anyone to use, which takes ownership and gives you edit permissions on the necessary files (useful):

takeown /a /f %SYSTEMROOT%\ehome\ehres.dll
icacls %SYSTEMROOT%\ehome\ehres.dll /Grant Administrators:F

takeown /a /f %systemroot%\ehome\en-US\ehres.dll.mui
icacls %systemroot%\ehome\en-US\ehres.dll.mui /Grant Administrators:F

Thanks for the info, made a bat file and ran it, but still didn't work for my problem. Am I doing something wrong which is very basic ??

If I save from the MC programme, should that automatically save the changes to VMC ?? if so it just isn't doing anything for me..... Every time I go back to check the two dll files (after using the the MC program) under USERS, they have not saved the cahnges to the permissions.


Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...............

I recently upgraded to SP1, do you think that might have caused a problem ??

[Novalak]

ok here is a weird one

i get the error message

MCMenuMender.exe Warning: 0 : Could not find image set resource. Image set: Radio.FM.Preset Image ID: Default
DateTime=2008-04-08T18:36:32.8544127Z

now this only happens when i move DVD library out of TV (i wanted it under pictures and videos)

The only thing i can think of is i added the registry edit, so i could play DVD's off the HD - maybe there is a link or something which causes it to crash???

any ideas?