I currently have the Logitech Z5500 speakers. When I got my Windows 7, I noticed sound only came out from the Subwoofer and the 2 front side speakers. I updated my drivers but it still didn’t solve my problem.

Apparently you have to tell Windows 7 what type of speaker set up you have. You have to manually set it to a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker set up.

After doing those steps you should be getting some sound from all speakers. Don’t expect the quality to be as good as Windows XP because it is not. When playing games I like it loud so I use the 6 Channel Direct Effect for my Logitech Z5500 but on Windows 7, it’s just such a disappointment.

Sometimes when publishing a blog entry through Windows Live Writer you may experience an error message that says

“The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the blog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server”

Sometimes the blog post is published even though you get that error. Most of the time the blog post isn’t published. There are a few things you could do when you get the error. Some steps might work for some bloggers, and some might not work. So try out the solutions below and see which works for you.

Before trying any of the solutions below please do not forget to back up your files in case you make a mistake and need to restore your original files.

1. Save the blog post as a local draft, closing WLW then open it and try publishing again.

2. For older versions of WordPress, include the line below in your xmlrpc.php file:

if ( !isset( $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA ) ) {     $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents( ‘php://input’ ); }

For newer versions of WordPress that line is already included by default. This is caused by a bug in PHP < 5.2.2 makes $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not set by default.

3. Another solution by Alpash Nakers is to add the following lines in your .htaccess file:

<Files xmlrpc.php> SecFilterInheritance Off </Files>

4. There might be some conflicting plugins. Try disabling some plugins and enabling them again.

5. This a solution I used when I experienced this problem on my blogs. I’m not sure if this only affects Unix/Linux type servers as this is something to do with capital and lowercase letters. The solution is to try and change the caps for class-IXR.php file that is found in your wp-includes. Either change it to class-ixr.php or class-IXR.php. This solution is further explained at seo-scientist.com.

If you are still experiencing this error and none of the solutions work for you, you can paste your WLW log here and we will try and help you out. To get your WLW log file go to Help, About and click on the Show Log File link.

I use Windows Live Writer to blog because it is simple and it supports plugins. Plugins make blogging really easy as well as enhances your posts. One of the plugins I use is Insert Video v3.13. It’s for inserting YouTube videos into my posts. However there seems to be a minor problem when installing on Windows 7.

When I tried to install Insert Video on my Windows 7 it would not install properly and the function won’t appear on Windows Live Writer like it should. This is because it’s installed in the wrong directory. On Windows 7 the Insert Video plugin would install itself in C:\Program Files (x86)\ScottIsAFool.

To use the plugin just copy the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\ScottIsAFool\Insert Video and paste the plugin file named InsertVideo.dll into your Windows Live Writer plugins folder. By default it should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Writer\Plugins.

Insert Video v3.13 can be downloaded from here.

Scott is the creator of Insert Video v3.13.

If you are experiencing “Unable to located WordPress Content directory (wp-content). That may be because of wrong settings.

In the beginning I set up my FTP address as the hostname and it worked for sometime. Then later it just stopped working completely. To fix this problem simply change hostname to localhost.

Because WordPress will be upgrading the plugin automatically from the localhost so the hostname should be set as localhost or 127.0.0.1. Also please note that the username and password used has to be your webhosting FTP username and password. It will not work with your WordPress username and password.

It might take some time for the plugin to download and reactivated. If it was successful you will get that message as shown above.