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Ideas Man
10-28-2007
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3:17am
Disable UAC? What a pathetic excuse to fix a program that doesn't need, nor should require administrative rights in the first place.
While I can't comment on the key click during full screen games and the like, I found a solution to the dialog about the WhatPulse.wpw file being generated by a different version. This sometimes happens on Windows XP too, and the simple solution is to delete the file and let WhatPulse recreate it, but the problem with Vista is, nobody understands why this doesn't work.
The reason is, WhatPulse is writing the file to the Program Files directory (A BIG no no on any version of Windows for various reasons). When you go to delete this file from the Program Files folder, it doesn't fix it. This occurs because in Windows Vista, virtualisation is used to redirect write requests to the Program Files folder to stop programs from crashing.
Therefore, the real location of your corrupt WhatPulse.wpw file is actually:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\WhatPulse\WhatPulse.wpw
Delete that file and run WhatPulse again, you'll find it now works.
I'm running windows vista, and i've had no problems. However, i've disabled UAC. I disabled it the day i got it. It's terrible.
Anyways, heres how to do it.
-Click on the windows icon in the bottem right, formally the start button.
-Type in, and run, "run".
-Type in "msconfig" in run.
-Click on the "tools" tab.
-On the list, find "Disable UAC" and hit "Launch"
-Restart your computer.
All done! :D
Hope this helped people.
Alex
Stephen
11-18-2007
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10:39pm
no problems found
I installed WhatPulse 1.5 on my gf's new computer and it's a Vista, and we have had no issues with it.
Disabling UAC as a solution to this problem is crap, frankly. The solution posted by Ideas Man works perfectly, for the record.
Actually UAC is pathetic. So is Vista.
If this is confirmed by someone then I shall consider adding it to the article.
the suggestion by ideas man...
to delete the .wpw file and then restart What Pulse seems to be working well!
but the disable of UAC did not!
use ideas man's directions!
THANK YOU!
Zakul
4-18-2008
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10:29am
Ideas Man's directions do, in fact, work perfectly.
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10-28-2007 at 3:17am
While I can't comment on the key click during full screen games and the like, I found a solution to the dialog about the WhatPulse.wpw file being generated by a different version. This sometimes happens on Windows XP too, and the simple solution is to delete the file and let WhatPulse recreate it, but the problem with Vista is, nobody understands why this doesn't work.
The reason is, WhatPulse is writing the file to the Program Files directory (A BIG no no on any version of Windows for various reasons). When you go to delete this file from the Program Files folder, it doesn't fix it. This occurs because in Windows Vista, virtualisation is used to redirect write requests to the Program Files folder to stop programs from crashing.
Therefore, the real location of your corrupt WhatPulse.wpw file is actually:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\WhatPulse\WhatPulse.wpw
Delete that file and run WhatPulse again, you'll find it now works.
11-9-2007 at 5:05am
Fix
Anyways, heres how to do it.
-Click on the windows icon in the bottem right, formally the start button.
-Type in, and run, "run".
-Type in "msconfig" in run.
-Click on the "tools" tab.
-On the list, find "Disable UAC" and hit "Launch"
-Restart your computer.
All done! :D
Hope this helped people.
Alex
11-18-2007 at 10:39pm
no problems found
2-8-2008 at 7:43pm
That's pathetic
2-9-2008 at 10:39pm
If this is confirmed by someone then I shall consider adding it to the article.
4-10-2008 at 5:23am
dixiekin
to delete the .wpw file and then restart What Pulse seems to be working well!
but the disable of UAC did not!
use ideas man's directions!
THANK YOU!
4-18-2008 at 10:29am