Well, I used to make most of my posts with a Desktop Client “Windows Live Writer”. Something (still not sure what), perhaps a Windows update, a change of domain caused Windows Live Writer to stop working on my server (which is in Hyper-V and used as a development client) 2008 machine. I scoured the web looking for ideas, but found very little. I uninstalled, re-installed, blew away all the local directories I could find, but no love…
Finally, out of desperation, I uninstalled all the Windows Live junk apps and used Registrar Registry Manager Lite (the free one) to do a search for all the “Windows Live” keys in my registry – then deleted them all. Rebooted, reinstalled and WHAMMOOO it works totally fine now. Registrar Registry Manager from Resplendence is a very useful tool, it saved my bacon on-site at a hospital troubleshooting issues with 3rd party applications installed on our hardware, and it worked great for doing a batch search/remove in the registry.
Here is Registrar Registry Manager’s web site [ LINK ]
As an aside, having been forced to review a few other Desktop blogging tools, here are the ones I used:
Looks pretty nice, and was my favorite of the ones I tried. Its easy to use, handles inserting images very well (resizes for thumbnails like Live Writer), just pretty intuitive.
Well, I can’t say much about it, I wan’t able to get it to install on Server 2008, so I can’t really make much of a comment.
ISSUES:
What I noticed right away, was I wanted the follwoing:
1. A Desktop client
2. To be able to save drafts locally
3. Insert images easily and not have to deal with creating thumbnails and resizing etc.
4. Integration with WordPress (and other blogging platforms ideally able to post the same post to multiple blogging platforms)
5. Ability to edit WordPress pages, not just blog entries
6. WYSISYG editing with the ability to see the source in a separate view.
# 5 is where the other blog clients seemed to miss out. Granted I only tired a couple, but reading through features, none seemed to mention the ability to edit pages on the blog. When I tested BlogDesk, I couldn’t get the wordpress pages like I was used to in Windows Live Writer. So, I figured I would give Windows Live Writer another shot, and I am back in business!
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