XXHighEnd

Dear all,

after longer absence from my favourite hobby for business reasons, I had reserved some time during summer break to set up my music system with a new HDD to setup Win8 and see how it performs.

But I am already struggling to get XXHighend properly activated.

I have tried it now various times, following precisely the procedure as given in the activation email, but I dontget the title bar in orange. This was always a sign that something still is wrong. I do have access to the core appointment scheme slider, so no more undemo message there, butno orange title bar.

Any idea where to look after?

It should work even without the Win7 Shell thing, right?

Here I am facing the problem that my computer had a preinstalled Win7 system and I do not have the original CD/DVD. I bought an upgrade for Win8 in January, and I made a clean install of Win8 with that on top of the Win7 system (format drive). I still have another computer with Win 7 running (or could put the old HDD back in) to manually access the files that the Win7 shell is looking for (explorer.exe, explorer.exe.mui, others?) but I am having a hard time really figuring  that out. (I get a black screen with just the cursor on it, meaning that the .mui file was not properly place /loaded?)

Is there another way to get this done?

Oh man, I thought I could enjoy some music still in summer, but I fear I am running out of time...

Any help very, very much appreciated

Best Carsten

Hi Carsten

I had similar situation (titlebar text not red) untill I activated CoverArt functions (Show Wallpaper, At Attended etc.)
At next XXHE start (& play) all was OK, wallpaper got red top & bottom stripes, titlebar reading turned red.

I went same way, purchased W8 upgrade licence. XXHE does not 'need' W7 Shell however sound is better with it (no 'Metro Apps' active)
but you need W7 installation media/disk.

Hth

George

Thanks for the help, George, but I have re-tried it now several times, also with the coverArt settings as you pointed out, and I am not getting to get the titlebar of the program window turning into orange. I am following exactly the steps as given in the activation email.

I cannot judge the wallpaper since Win8 is not showing wallpaper, right?


Thanks Carsten

Hi Carsten, wallpaper should be shown normally while in Attended mode. There's problem showing it in Unattended mode.
Actually it is there but appears for a few milliseconds only after issuing Alt-X command :)

I'm using Win7 Shell on my 'work machine' - right now while I'm typing this message and have wallpaper shown.
Unregistered XXHE, cream border stripes of course.

hmm, strange, thanks for the hintt, I don´t see coverart even in attended mode, only when minimizing the program to the icon attached to the start bar, I can see a little window with the cover art picture and the title structure, otherwise it stays the XXHighend program on display... and when closing XX, the screen is black and the original background is gone...

Carsten

OK, I have made some progress here...

Win7 shell is activated now, that´s good. So I am getting closer...

Just the activation thing still bugs me. Now with Win 7 shell, I can see the coverart in attended mode, but onlythe one of the first music ever played. As soon as I stop that track and switch to a different one, it will always just show the coverart of the first album played... And, of course, not in red bars, but in that yellow-greyish coulor...

getting desperate, but keep trying! Any help appreciated!

Cheers Carsten

Hi Carsten,

did you order a new activation code for Windows 8? The Windows 7 activation code does not work ...

Georg

Sometimes I had to do similar things as George. Then I did some actions with the XXHE configuration settings, entered the activation code again and shut down / restart the system.

Georg

Dear Carsten,

First off, don't use the Wallpaper from W8 to judge. Indeed it will show the old first used one in some circumstances. But in your XX folder there will be some .jpg named wallpaper.jpg I think, and you can delete that. Also assign a Wallpaper through the Windows functions yourself. I recall that helps.
Otherwise use the Titlebar.

The best right now would be to install xxhe again to a fresh new folder and at the question whether you have an existing xxdata folder somewhere, answer no. Or better, delete that folder first. Then go through the paypal procedure again. It just should work.
I have been offline for several days to refund the money, but from now on I can again and will do so.
My response will still be more slow than usual because I am travelling.

You should get it done ...
Regards,
Peter

Peter, thanx for the help,

I got it all done, finally, but then something strange happened (and it happened twice!):

I deleted the program and the XXdata folder, got it all newly extracted, got a new activation key and after following precisely the activation procedure, finally the title bar of XXHE went orange! Yes, I got it all done, I thought. But then I copied my presets files to the XXdata folder (because the program seems to not let me load it from another folder butXXdata?!), and then the title bar went back to blue (and so did I...). And it happened twice, exaxtly the same way. Strange?

Thanks Carsten

Hi Carsten,

No, not strange, because I would call that "mangling" (although of course not on purpose) and mangling is the first reason to lose your activation. Sorry !

Regards,
Peter


PS: I have to add that a more legal way for this would also fail Activation ... I think. So that would be a bug ...
:15a:

Ok, understood.

I got everything activated now and can start listening seriously to some music. Looking forward to reporting on Win8 experiences one day,

best and thanks to all

Carsten

The solution for this problem was not clear for me but was already here. After activation the border of the wallpaper is still yellow because the wallpaper is not refreshed in time. At playing the second song the wallpaper gets refreshed and will be red if properly activated. :yahoo: