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Cannot restore Tweetdeck on Windows 7
I’m seeing an issue where the Tweetdeck window stays minimised all the time under Windows 7 RC. Restarting Tweetdeck does not force it to appear, it seems to be permanently minimised. Right-click Pin to Taskbar has no effect.
I can see the Tweetdeck application appear on Alt-Tab (and Win-Tab). When the Tweetdeck button is selected in the Task Bar the button appears to react normally – displaying selected colour, other application windows lose focus correctly etc.
To test Air I’ve installed Twhirl, which appears to be working normally. However, one difference between Twhirl and Tweetdeck is that Twhirl is minimising to the System Tray only. It does not show a Task Bar item, nor does it appear in the Alt-Tab list.
Other info: I’m running Windows 7 RC1 (build 7100) with a dual monitor configuration.
Anyone know of a fix for this? Please leave a comment below! Update: some helpful suggestions:
@martharotter: See a triangle image in the taskbar next to the time/date? Click to expand & click on TD icon from there. That worked for me
@EvertB: I have Tweetdeck running on Windows 7 without any problems. Maybe you should select “install as XP” option on the setup file?
@swhelband: Agree, Love win 7 but I’m finding the taskbar has real issues so far with dual monitor support
Update #1: Working – by complete fluke.
Missing my multi-column Twitter goodness, I installed Seesmic Desktop (it’s a more than capable replacement).
Then, after reading the suggestions above, I decided to give some of them a try. However, Tweetdeck was visible when I loaded it. So, did installing Seesmic Desktop force an update of Adobe Air?
Update #2: Hide and Seek
Ok, the above is not a permanent fix, it’s now failing randomly (playing hide and seek) for me. Here’s when it seems to happen and when it fails:
- First install of Tweetdeck (from memory): appears correctly
- Next run of Tweetdeck: minimised, does not unhide.
- Next run of Tweetdeck: minimised, does not unhide.
- [Install and Run of Seesmic Desktop (which is an Adobe AIR app)]
- Next run of Tweetdeck: appears correctly
- Next run of Tweetdeck: minimised, does not unhide.
- [Run then quit Seesmic Desktop (does it reset AIR?)]
- Next run of Tweetdeck: appears correctly
- Next run of Tweetdeck: minimised, does not unhide.
- Run then don’t quit Seesmic Desktop (does it reset AIR?)
- Next run of Tweetdeck: appears correctly
My conclusion is that Tweetdeck is messing up AIR status and Seesmic is resetting it to a good state.
Other info:
- Dual monitors (2)
- nVidea 8800GTX Windows 7 build 7100.
- I’m not currently running Ultramon (it doesn’t properly support Win7 yet), wonder if that would improve the situation.
Please leave a comment with your thoughts or suggestions!
Solution for Media Player Classic: Can’t create shockwave control
Quick fix: if you recently reinstalled like I just did, you might encounter this error when trying to play SWF or FLV files with Media Player Classic:
“Can’t create shockwave control”
The answer to fix this is fairly simple – thanks to nameless over on the neowin forums:
If you have this problem, you need to install the Flash plugin for Internet Explorer. You need to do that because Media Player Classic uses the Internet Explorer Flash plugin to render SWF files.
Simple enough! I find the quickest way to get it is open youtube.com (or any other site guaranteed to have Flash content) in an IE window and click on the link to install Flash.
Hey, let me know if this helped you out by posting a quick note in the Comments!
Update from Ren in the comments for folks using Win7 x64 MPC:
Under Windows 7, using the x64 version of Media Player Classic, you’ll have trouble playing flash stuff in MPC. This is due to the fact that a 64-bit program can not load a 32-bit active X control.
The only work-around as far as I can see is to use the 32-bit version for your flash until Adobe updates to 64-bit.
You can download the activeX controls at labs.adobe.com