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Windows Live Movie Maker won’t open; error like “Faulting module name: aticfx32.dll”

March 27th, 2011

I was having problems with Windows Live Movie Maker not opening lately. No error, just nothing happening when I would run it. I tried repairing and uninstalling/reinstalling but nothing helped.

After looking in the event log, I saw the above DLL in the error which made me think ‘Video Card’. So, first thing I tried to do was disable Crossfire and try and run off of one video card.

Worked like a charm!

Apparently, Windows Live Movie Maker isn’t compatible with Crossfire, and I’d hazard a guess it may have issues with SLI, too. If you’re having this problem and running two cards, knock one off and see if it helps.

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Small Apps on the Nexus 10

January 7th, 2013

I think I found a little workaround for tiny apps on the Nexus 10.

I was surprised to see that, with a screen so large, there was no way to stretch your apps full screen.

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Go into the settings and click on Accessability.

 

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Open Magnification gestures and turn it on

 

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When you get into an app where everything is tiny…

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Triple tap on the screen, then pinch-zoom until it looks good.

 

This is not a guaranteed fix, mind you. For example, Audiotools Sketch stretches okay for the main tools:

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But, you have to scroll to see the top right corner where the tool switching resides:

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I guess it’s better than nothing, though.

 

 

 

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