New SID tool

Sysinternals has removed the download for newsid.exe. This tool is still valuable and we recently had to use it (and it did the job). I had a hard time finding it so I wanted to put it up in case someone else needs it.
New_SID.exe (zip)

Pairing a Motorola HS810 bluetooth headset with Motorola Droid

On the Droid, go to Settings>Wireless & networks>Make sure bluetooth is turned on (green checkmark)>tap Bluetooth Settings

Now, with you HS810 headset closed, hold in the call button until the blue light comes on. Hit the Scan for Devices on the Droid. Open the arm on the headset. The Droid should discover the headset and prompt you to add it. Once it is added, it is paired and should be usable.

Motorola Droid Visual Voicemail too quiet

For me, this one was easy. Just hit the menu button to bring up the menu and toggle the speaker. My speaker was turned off. Once I did that, messages were louder and easy to hear.

Nvidia Video Driver for Toshiba x505-860

This is for the GTS 360M. I know it is not available yet through Nvidia. Here is a copy of the drivers. This is for 64-bit OS (Windows 7).

Download

I don't know how much the installer is tied to Toshiba. If you try to use these on something other than Toshiba, pay attention to where they extract to and maybe you can just point your video card driver update to the folder.

Vista hangs (reboot loop) installing update 3 of 3

I had this happen recently (10/20/09). I could not tell what the problem was, nor could I tell what update was failing. I tried safemode boot, last known good config, and repair, none worked.

To resolve this I booted off the Vista installation media, and selected repair. It tried to automatically repair startup configuration, and then came back saying it could not. One of the options was to go into advanced repair options. Chose that. Then chose command prompt. At command prompt:
>cd c:
>cd windows
>cd winsxs
>del pending.xml

Once the file was deleted, rebooted system. System went back to installing update 3 of 3 but this time it worked.

Clicking Citrix link bring up open or save dialog

With the user logged open a command prompt and change directory to C:\program files\Citrix\ICA Client

Run this command from that directory: wfica32 /setup

Momentarily after running the command there should be a citrix setup completed message.

When clicking to launch citrix apps it should now work.

Cannot play my DVR-MS movies on Zune HD

It's confusing that microsoft does not support their own proprietary file type on the Zune HD. I know you can play some dvr-ms files, like SD tv shows recorded on Media Center, but not movies that have been coverted to dvr-ms. I converted my whole collection to dvr-ms to get away from transcoding, to have better support on the extenders. It would have been nice for these movies to work on the Zune HD.

From reading it seems like the Cucusoft product is good for converting dvr-ms for Zune. Anybody else got any recommendations? I did do one by using VideoRedo to convert it from dvr-ms to mpg using QSF (so only took a couple of minutes) then I converted it to wmv using Windows Media Encoder. It took a long time and came out looking crappy.