I just had a neighbour from a few houses up come over and ask for help. His daughter and wife had been spending hours trying to get windows media player working properly with a video projector for the daugher’s 21st birthday. Windows media player would come up with a black screen, and nothing would fix it. The video was of the the daugher’s life edited to music, and I did hear comments that the party would need to be cancelled if the issue could not be fixed 🙂

It literally took me about a minute to fix the problem. Pressing Function F5 a few times fixed the problem. I actually needed to bring the laptop screen so that it was black, and then things were fine. I suspect that if I had looked at the display properties, and checked if the VGA output was video output 2 or a clone of video output 1…

Dinner tonight was nachos… I forgot about the sour cream, but apart from that they were actually perfect. Some salsa with mince on top of diced lettice, cheese and tomato and corn chips was all that was needed. It was delicious…