I’ve released Embroidery Reader 2.2.5 to fix the color index out of bounds error. Special thanks to Jean White and Rick Richter for sharing files that were causing the crash! Without those files, I wouldn’t have been able to figure out what was wrong.
The version also checks the PEC format a little closer, and should hopefully provide debug messages when it finds something out of place.
You can download the latest version at the Embroidery Reader page.
I’ve released Embroidery Reader version 2.2.4 to try to fix some long standing and difficult to reproduce bugs and crashes.
Visit the Embroidery Reader page to download the latest version.
My HP Spectre x360 13 inch from late 2017 has an annoying problem where it shows a popup message when connected to a non-HP power adapter. The message says “HP recommends using an original power adapter from HP”. After searching around the web, it seems I’m not alone. I read the thread about disabling USB-C popups completely here, however I wanted to continue to get the popup box for the other messages such as “For full performance, connect a higher power adapter” and “The AC adapter is not compatible with this system”.
I did some digging with procmon and found that HPMSGSVC.exe looks at a registry key to see what application it should run for each event. It appears that the annoying message is caused by the “2304” event. As a quick fix, you can simply tell it to use a program that doesn’t exist for the “2304” event. See the instructions below for a simple way to do just that.
I’ve experimented with changing the ApplicationKey path to another program of my choice and it seems to work. I even wrote some applications to popup my own message for each event, and I’ve been experimenting with displaying the messages through Windows 10 native notifications. If there’s interest, I’ll post the source code on Github.