MS Announces Updated Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
Posted by Tom Warren on 14 October 2003 - 13:41 · 9 comments & 1903 views
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#1 Posted by memodude on 14 Oct 2003 - 14:27
- Everyone who has Plus! DME, download Boo Who? using the Dancer Download Utility. It is Clippy in his halloween costume!
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#2 Posted by figgy on 14 Oct 2003 - 14:31
- Yay! I upgraded to the new version.
Nice improvements! It works great!
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#3 Posted by creamhackered on 14 Oct 2003 - 14:33
- Lol Boo Woo is quality
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#4 Posted by memodude on 14 Oct 2003 - 14:37
- Seems kind of strange - they took off the Dancer Download Utility link from the Download More Dancers! page. It said "Stay tuned: Coming 12pm PST on 10/14". Maybe they'll release a new Dancer Download Utility at noon today. Meanwhile, I used the power of Google caching to get the above link.
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#4.1 Posted by creamhackered on 14 Oct 2003 - 14:41
- Yea I wondered where it had gone too, thanks for the link
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#5 Posted by figgy on 14 Oct 2003 - 16:41
- And for people who don't know what you are missing try it:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/Try.asp
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#6 Posted by beatlesdb on 14 Oct 2003 - 22:31
- Only Microsoft could say that Plus! Digital Media Edition is popular - the program is little but a Themes up-date - the new Photo Story 2 is very basic, and you can do far more with Windows Moviemaker 2 which is free. Some of the other enhancements are also basic and you can easily find free alternatives - as for the dancer - they quickly become irritating
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#7 Posted by memodude on 15 Oct 2003 - 04:47
- If the patch needs the MSI file that was put in your temp folder and got deleted later, try these things:
1. Use WinZip, WinRAR, or similar utility that can open self-extracting wextract.exe packages to extract all the files to a folder, then point the patch at the extracted MSI file. Be sure you extract all the files to the folder because I believe Windows Installer also needs access to the original installation files, not sure though. (this is the preferred way, also the way I did it so I know it works)
2. Start your original Plus! DME download package and cancel it. Then install the patch. (haven't tested, let me know if that doesn't work)
3. Start your original Plus! DME download package and don't cancel it. Then install the patch. Finally cancel the original installer. (haven't tested, let me know if that doesn't work)
4. Open a DOS box and CD to the folder with your original download page. Then run {"plusdme_full.exe" /C /T:the folder you want to extract to} (not including the curly brackets, including the double-quotes, replacing plusdme_full.exe with the name of the install package, replacing the folder you want to extract to with the folder you want to extract the files to). Then pick the MSI file when the patch asks.
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#8 Posted by CloLoD on 15 Oct 2003 - 07:20
- I followed memodude's #4 method... however...
I get an error 1328
... Some sort of patch error... because either the file that needs to be patched is not the right file or so... or it just hates my computer. 
It maybe because I have the update 2 installed... the version number is different (1.00.00.233
Any idea what's wrong?
Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate availability of an enhanced version of the popular Plus! Digital Media Edition, the ultimate photo, music and movie enhancement pack for Microsoft® Windows® XP. With enhancements based on customer requests, this new version available for the holidays adds exciting new features, including Plus! Photo Story 2, which enables digital camera owners to create Video CDs of their photo stories for playback in most consumer DVD players, and the addition of 10 new dancers to the already popular Plus! Dancer feature. In addition, Microsoft is releasing Plus! Photo Story LE and Plus! Dancer LE, free trial versions of two of the most popular Plus! Digital Media Edition features that enable customers to experience many of the capabilities for themselves before buying.
"Plus! Digital Media Edition is the perfect companion for digital camera owners who will love how Plus! Photo Story 2 gives them an entirely new way of experiencing, sharing and showing off their photos," said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft. "For consumers who want to try before they buy, the free trial versions of Photo Story 2 and Plus! Dancer give a taste of what the excitement of Plus! Digital Media Edition is all about."
Internet security firm Symantec said vulnerabilites have meant that attacks on IM and peer-to-peer sites have risen 400 per cent since 2002.
Using what are known as application programming interfaces (a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications), hackers have developed worms or Trojans that can capture a remote user's list of IM correspondents, or 'buddies'.
By grabbing a user's buddy list rather than scanning for vulnerable IP addresses, these worms have the potential to be more virulent than predecessors like Code Red, Slammer or Blaster, which spread over the internet rather than over IM networks, warned Neal Hindocha of Symantec Security Response.
Usually the victim is led to a website, either by a distributing link through IM or via an email with a link to the webpage, which then automatically downloads a worm or trojan.
One program, according to security bulletin BugTraq, hijacks an already running AOL IM (AIM) account, changes the password and sends a message to the buddies list with a link to a malicious web page.
Another attack on users of AIM is being accomplished by sending them to a website where a trojan downloads an automated dialler. Users accessing the internet via dial-up accounts are then switched to premium rate porn numbers.
A similar worm that spreads through the Microsoft MSN Messenger system, according to South Korean antivirus company, Global Hauri. This attempts to connect to a porn website and also sends itself to names in the victim's contact list.
At the time of going to press neither AOL nor Microsoft had returned calls for comment.