Windows 7 – Windows Experience Index could not be computed

by ambuj on November 16, 2009

in Fixes

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate N and installation went very smoothly and I got up and running within minutes.  After playing around around with it for a few minutes, I noticed that the Aero features were not working – so I headed straight to the Control Panel to get my Windows Experience Index computed.   But everytime I clicked on the compute button, I kept getting this error message:

“The windows experience index for your system could not be computed.
Cannot complete the requested assesment. This system does not have the necessary multi-media support to run the requested assessment.”

After spending sometime Googling, I found out that Windows 7 Ultimate N doesn’t come with Windows Media Player pre-installed.  I headed straight to the link below, downloaded and installed Windows Media Player and computed Windows Experience Index again and now I have a rather impressive score of 4.7!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=31017ed3-166a-4c75-b90c-a6cef9b414c4&displaylang=en

Windows Experience Index

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Vista & SD card woes

by ambuj on October 15, 2009

in Fixes

I was struggling this evening to get my new SanDisk 2GB SD card working on my Sony Vaio VGN-FZ31S running Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

After spending a lot of time Googling, I found the link below.  A quick download & install and everything seems to be working OK now!

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=ob-70996-1

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ASP.NET File Upload in an UpdatePanel Progress indicator Please wait screen

by ambuj on September 16, 2009

in ASP.NET

If you’ve ever tried to use a FileUpload control inside an ASP.NET UpdatePanel, you probably already know that you can’t do that. Using the FileUpload control allows you to use the UpdateProgress control to show some sort of indicator that the page is busy. But since we can’t use an UpdatePanel with a FileUpload control, here’s an alternative solution using jQuery and jQuery’s BlockUI extension to display a message while the file is being uploaded. In fact you can use this solution on any page which involves a long running process.

Download: Click here to download the code
Demo: Click here to view the demo

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