Windows 8 and 8.1 Missing Application Updates and Missing Applications

People with Skype (on a laptop OR computer) could be vulnerable.
you should check the "store" to see if theirs an update if your on windows 8 or 8.1

I know a lot of windows 8/8.1 users hate it, many don't even explore it, in fact most are fed up looking in "Control Panel" and "Settings" just to find stuff previous windows held in the same location for ease of use...

SO.. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that they also split updates and moved them to "Store"

I have barely messed with windows 8 or 8.1, however today i got a strange file type i didn't know, normally id google that like *extension, only windows 8.1 asked if ide like to look in the store (xbox users will be used to this interface)  anyways while looking in the store i noticed it said Updates!!

I'm thinking wtf is this, so i clicks it and hits update and down come some updates that windows update is NOT showing me... to get to this screen click start, or press your windows key (then top right corner search for the word store)  But keep reading my post.. it gets even more bizarre.
Note their was around 19 updates their before i hit the screen shot...

So while these updates are coming down (and im still shocked Skype is their rather than in windows update)   I decided to hit Account and then go into My Apps.. their i find what came with my OEM version of windows 8.1, to my shock i see games that where essentially awarded to my account simply due to my windows serial number (but remember what you see in the screen shot below is linked to my Hotmail)  suddenly i feel like i have an apple id for windows...
NOTE i never Purchased any of these, they must be OEM gifted..

But frankly i am disgusted that my operating system came pre-instaled with Skype which has sat needing updates for god knows how long while as a messenger application has put my system at risk..

Reverbnation Missing Rank

chart rank hyphen - reverbnation?

A while ago Audio Life that manages the  sales of reverbnation artists stopped accepting my Visa Debit Card and insisted that they have never accepted them and have only accepted Credit Cards
I have TWO invoices that Dispute that, but apparently no one cares because im wrong : /

To rub salt in the wound i woke today to find i am no longer within ANY chart

I Was Number 1 Liverpool
I Was Number 1 UK
I Was Number 1 Globally

My chart listing is now just a  - Sign/Symbol

(now if i hadn't noticed this i would of NOT been notified!!!!!!!!!)

i asked on their support forum and my post was closed and i received an email stating this

Thanks for the email. It appears that your account has been flagged by our system due to song plays or fan growth that it has deemed ‘suspicious’ (may have been created in an automated way or through a paid 3rd party site). Your account will not appear on any ReverbNation charts for 31 days following the most recent ‘suspicious’ activity. Stats found to be fraudulent may be removed during this time. Please note this suspension period from the charts does not hamper your daily use of ReverbNation or your ability to access and promote your music/content. Your account will return to the charts automatically without any action on your part should no violations regarding the terms and conditions of ReverbNation turn up. If you feel that this was done in error, please complete the appeals form via the link pasted below so that your appeal may be considered. If your appeal is accepted, your account will return to the charts sometime before the 31 days is up.

***PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT ABOUT THE STATUS OF YOUR APPEAL, AS THAT IS A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT. FOLLOWING UP WITH CUSTOMER SUPPORT AUTOMATICALLY NULLIFIES YOUR APPEAL, AND YOU MUST WAIT THE FULL 31 DAYS.***

Appeals form can be found here:

Firstly i never sent an Email..
Secondly i can't afford 3rd party services
Third... did they not realize that reaching number ONE in the world would Increase Traffic
(ive been featured on other blogs, ive promoted with a Music Give Away)
thats besides the fact my music is prity dam good considering my equipment....

Now.... if i am to understand this right, i need to STOP promoting my music, i need to DISABLE my widget, because clearly my .NET tutorial made my blog to popular and in turn my widget received to many song plays...

I need to beg all these RAP STARS to STOP ADDING ME TO THEIR FANS LIST
And although i WAS number 1 in the world i need to STOP getting fans...

I have roughly 6530 twitter followers
Scammers have 50,000+

I have roughly 1240 FB Page Likes
Scammers have 50,000+

I have roughly 29,000 YouTube Subscribers
Scammers have 400,000+

I have roughly 6000 mySpace Followers
Scammers have 50,000+

My stats are stable


So a lesson here i am seeing is if an artist stuck at number 2 has some funding
RATHER THAN RISK HIS OWN ACCOUNT
all's THEY have to do is spend a few dollars to buy you some fans on a site and BANG
their number 1... and your gone...

Interesting and clearly ANOTHER NAIL into my dealings with reverb nation

I have a meeting friday to talk about funding and possibly going self employed

being number ONE in my Home Town would of helped
being number ONE in my Home Country would of helped
being number ONE in the Whole World would of REALLY HELPED

and being their with BASIC STATS would of also been honest

but i have just learn't today that ANYONE can get you thrown out the charts for a mere $2.99 a month
(that's about £1.52 a month to keep your rivals at bay) by simply backing their rivals account instead of their own account

doesn't this also mean i can no longer work on my own blog because MY pc is accessing the blogs widget?

see when people start googling  "Reverbnation Missing Rank" or "Rank Now A Hyphen"
that will affect my reverb stats while you guys are reading this   to which WTF is the correct way to get publicity and stats besides by helping OTHERS,  rather than paying for fake ones    : /



JANUARY 2013

FEBRUARY 2013

Begs the question, if im number 1 in the world.. and actually miles ahead of anyone else
why ide actually need more fans.... to which this is how it looks now that i am essentially Invisible

To Which... MARCH 2013...

Older Stats

Here is a random reason why stats get elevated all on their own...

When you watch "most" of my music videos, you'll notice im normaly Featured in YELLOW at the top with TWO of my other  music videos...
using google spider to enhance your Coverage is bog standard marketing....
I don't pay anyone to get featured...


IMPORTANT UPDATED INFO ABOUT PROBLEMS ON REVERBNATION

HERE:
Reverb Stat System Failure

Reverbnation Missing Rank

The Horror Collection Release Details

On this album is everything you need to make your own little Spooky Horror movie. Music, Drones even Sound Effects. In fact the only thing it lacks is bog standard doors, keys and stuff you can get anywhere. I made that choice because most effects like that you can make or download already, so i concentrated on the more unusual effects and making the most of the space on the album for Music and Ambiance Drones.

Well worth a listen...

Official Release Date 21st November 2012

Track Listing:
01 - Untouched After Years Yet You Are Not Alone
02 - Sheriffs In On it.. warn dad.. Ooo Nooo Dads In On It To
03 - It Happened Right In This Very Room
04 - Most The Towns Dead What Are We Gona Do
05 - I Know Your In Here
06 - Exploring The Crystal Cavern
07 - Hey That Looked Like Old Man.. Whatzisface... Where Was His Face
08 - Across The Table The Child Has A Knife Do You Go Left or Right
09 - Don't Make A Sound
10 - Finding The Diary Carved By Fingernails In The Floorboards
11 - We Should Be Ok Down Here.. What Is This Place
12 - What Is That
13 - The Old Woman Who Lived Here Was Nice, Her Husband However
14 - Dumb Zombie Bait Zombie Ambush
15 - The Body Was Right Their
16 - I Think Its This Way
17 - Once They Leave The Morgue We Go In Through The Basement
18 - Keep Down and Don't Move
19 - Look Daylight This Is The Way Out
20 - Farewell To The Rogue Warrior (ez-250i)
21 - Silent Night Horror Edition
22 - I Looked Back And I Saw Her Die
23 - Majestic Ambiance 002
24 - My Halo Is Slipping (Stuttered)
25 - My Halo Is Slipping (Rig5)
26 - Farewell To The Rogue Warrior (inc drums & ambiance)
27 - Its Finally Over
28 - Majestic Ambiance 003
29 - The Nightmare (Windy Weird)

Bonus Tracks:
30 - DRONE - Bass Elements 001
31 - DRONE - Guitar Element (What Did You Just Their Say Boi) 001
32 - DRONE - Majestic Encounter 001
33 - DRONE - Massive Temperature Drop Its Here 001
34 - DRONE - Mood Setter 001 (Loop or Stretch)
35 - DRONE - Plec Madness 001
36 - DRONE - Noise 001
37 - DRONE - Plinky Plink Delay 001
38 - DRONE - Thats Not My Reflection 001
39 - DRONE - The Laughing Guitar
40 - DRONE - Cartoonish 001
41 - DRONE - Bb  - FM7 (Bottom)
42 - DRONE - C  - FM7 (Middle)
43 - DRONE - D  - FM7 (Top)
44 - Just Looking Around
45 - Im So Sick Of Running From This Thing
46 - Chased On The Stairs
47 - DRONE - Random Suspense 001
48 - An Intro Of Sorts
49 - Ambient Tapping (Bottom)
50 - Ambient Tapping (Middle)
51 - Ambient Tapping (Top)
52 - SFX - Crazy Man Laugh 001
53 - SFX - Crazy Man Laugh 002
54 - SFX - Chruch Bells & Wind
55 - SFX - Zombie 01 (Echo)
56 - SFX - Zombie 01 (NO Echo)
57 - SFX - Water or Heavy Rain 001
58 - SFX - Wind & Creaky Door
59 - SFX - Wind from 10th floor Chestnut House Bootle
60 - SFX - Wind Internal Electric Hum 001

Approx Running Time: 1 Hour 16 Mins

 INLAY FOLDED OUT (sample)

CD Box Back (sample)

 

MP3 Sale Links:
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BandCamp Store Here £7.00  UPC: 840080141794
Amazon UK Store Here £7.45     ASIN: B00G17D7HE
Amazon USA Store Here $7.99   ASIN: B00G18A3WA
iTunes UK Store Here £7.99       UPC: 840080141794
iTunes USA Store Here $9.99     UPC: 840080141794
GooglePlay Android Here £7.99 UPC: 840080141794 
Spotify Here

Bandcamp album sale includes Bonus Extras

CD Sale Links: None at the moment
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Compact Disc With Box Art Sold Via N/A Hard Copy Sales

IMPORTANT NOTE TO AVOID CONFUSION
The company i use to get onto iTunes, Amazon and spotify
have a 50 Track Limit  (bandcamp and googleplay don't)
SO this means if you download OFF google or bandcamp you get 60 Individual tracks
If you buy it off Amazon, iTunes OR Spotify
(You DO still get ALL 60 pieces of Audio BUT some are merged into ONE track)

IE
These Tracks Are Combined As Track 49
These Tracks Are Combined As Track 50
(they have a small gap between playback)

IF you make a video and you have used the music from "This Album"
then feel free to post it in the comments
WARNING:  Posting Irrelevant videos WILL get you Banned....

Error Installing .NET KB2698023 KB2742597 Fix

So you get an error when you try windows update
and it comes up failed when you run KB2698023  or  KB2742597

and it keeps on bugging you that you need that update....

I guess maybe you even tried downloading  "netfx.msi"  as advised on OTHER places ROFL

And its told you A Resource within  netfx1.cab was is unavailable?

well it would... as you don't have it like (as u only downloaded the msi)


Here is what you do....

FIRST...  (and DON'T JUMP THE GUN)

Download THIS (the update with the issue)  NDP1.1sp1-KB2698023-X86.exe
  OR This one 
Download THIS (the update with the issue) NDP1.1sp1-KB2742597-X86.exe
OR This one
Download THIS (the update with the issue) NDP1.1sp1-KB2833941-X86.exe
(you only need 1, and then maybe the other, use the one your update failed on)

Both Files Come Direct From Microsoft    (DO NOT INSTALL IT  YET)


Now... Download THIS...

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package

From Microsoft HERE   (DON'T INSTALL IT)


RIGHT CLICK ON    dotnetfx.exe

and select   EXTRACT   TO    dotnetfx  
(this will give you 5 files, you need these for 5 mins)
No extract option?  install winZip or 7zip  (their both free) or extract with WinRAR

now with those files extracted,,,  RUN   EITHER
NDP1.1sp1-KB2698023-X86.exe

OR

 NDP1.1sp1-KB2742597-X86.exe

and Install it...

when Asked for "netfx.msi"
Browse to it (where YOU extracted the other one) & the installation should accept it and finalize

simply because I am smart and Microsoft are not..... cant believe they fkd this up with a replacement

DON'T just Google  dotnetfx.exe
if the MS link changes.....
GO TO  http://download.microsoft.com
and search for it their and MAKE SURE you get .NET 1.1 version of dotnetfx.exe (not the 1.0)

Oooo and yes.... it works for them ALL....

And i can't believe some of the sites ive seen telling people to uninstall ALL .NET and start installing them all from scrtatch.... wtf do u do next time MS do this... uninstall it all again?  wtf people
oddly replaces the last update yet causes the same problem
good old Microsoft.. BAH...



USEFUL INFO FOR THE TECHS:

Because it keeps doing this on certain systems with certain Updates ive started creating a folder HERE on the computer Like This
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DOTNET.1.1SorceMSI
That way its their for future problems with the files ready for me

Just an Example, You CAN Put your Folder Anywhere

 



Microsoft.net is also really messy
After your told to reboot & the pc comes back on,  .net is still installing stuff
and sometimes even after a 2nd reboot, its still installing stuff & making system changes

so before attempting another update test
its best to open "Task Manager"  and keep an eye out for

2 EXE files that appear & then disappear, make sure their both done & gone
(don't try to close them, let them work)
these are the files that are normally going after 2/3 reboots

they will stay their (until i reboot again)
and they maybe back again after the reboot
its hard to tell if their modifying .net 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or v4
but until their gone, .net isn't fully updated

yet have you ever seen windows update tell you to reboot your pc 5 times in a row after updates?,  ive not seen that, yet that's what it takes.... so it could be 5 days after actually updating that all the fixes are applied.. depending on how often you boot & shut down the pc...  that's kinda bad...

NOTE:
sometimes only the mscoresvw.exe is visible
but a reboots needed till it goes away


FINAL NOTE:
if it fails,  Re-Extract the dotnetfx.exe
Don't really no why, but i think the installer modifies the MSI from the last time you did it  ;)

Easy Work Around?
well theirs a way around this, but its slow
what you do is only install the ,NEt 1.1 updates  (and reboot twice)
then install the ,NET 2 updates & reboot twice
then the 3 and then the 3.5 and then the 4

this way is slow, but appears to work

also you could make a bat file that installs .net & updates
then reboots the pc and checks for one of the Specific KB UPDATE folders in the win dir
and if its seen it skips to installing .net 3.5, then reboots checks for 1,2 or 3 and then does v4
then its just a case of adding each update to a folder & the bat
you could also mark the bat out with  #DOT_NET_1.1   and  DOT_NET_1.1_Updates
and manually evoke the bat from a menu bat to skip to install OR just update
I have a windows Update BAT Script concept, that's available coming soon on my PC Repair blog Here   :)


GOOGLE METADATA
KB2742597 error
KB2698023 error
KB2836939 error
KB2836940 error
KB2836941 error
KB2835393 error
KB2833941 error
KB2833940 error
KB2832411 error
KB2832407 error
KB2840628 error
KB2840629 error
KB2844285 error
KB2840628 error
KB2844285 error