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oleaut32.dll and crashing some services and explorer on Windows 7

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:49:18 +0000

For whatever reason my oleaut32.dll got broken on my Windows 7 installation. The final fix (after approx. 4h investigation) is

sfc /scannow

Three Mobile Broadband in UK (England) without using the Dongle/Modem on Windows 7 with Dell built-in HSDPA Modem

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:16:33 +0000

APN: three.co.uk
Username: guest
Password: guest

Get the voucher at one of their stores - you can pay with a non-uk credit card.

Windows 7 on Dell XPS Gen2

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:25:37 +0000

For SigmaTel C-Major Audio driver use this driver (found here)

For the graphic card (Geforce 6800 Ultra in my case), I open the device manager and just chose it from the list. Afterwards Windows Update asked me to download the update.

For the touch pad I used this

Latitude XT2 and Windows 7

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:44:41 +0000

Based on the release of the manual the most interesting question is: will the multi touch features work in Windows 7?

Update: Thanks to a comment I found the beta package over at n-trig.

BUT it doesn't support 64bit and no pen support (=no Math Input Panel!!!)