Broken Visual Studio 2008/2010 Wizards?

On multiple computers at various times I have run into this INSANELY frustrating issue where creating a new project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 will fail when the created project type brings up one of those Application Wizard screens.  The symptom is that instead of the Wizard showing its content a File Download window pops up asking if you want to save, open, or cancel the download of Default.htm.  Microsoft is surprisingly quiet on the issue, but its gone on a for a long time, since the IE7 days and VS2005, judging from the forums. I searched for "Visual Studio Wizard Navigation to this webpage cancelled" and every variant I could think of and tried multiple solutions until I found this: Microsoft Forum that at the very bottom linked to this: Registry Keys to Fix the Problem in which you can find the ".htm" fixer.  The registry keys that it defines are extensive, and I haven't gone through all of the file to see what exactly it does, but it does work.  Disclaimer is that I've only used this on Windows 7 32-bit.

Here is a listing of the registry keys from the second link, for posterity:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]"PerceivedType"="text"@="htmlfile""Content Type"="text/html"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\notepad.exe]@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\PersistentHandler]@="{eec97550-47a9-11cf-b952-00aa0051fe20}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile]"AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"@="HTML Document""FriendlyTypeName"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-912"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\CLSID]@="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\DefaultIcon]@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\  00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,20,00,\  45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,69,00,65,00,78,00,70,\  00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,37,00,\  00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\ScriptHostEncode]@="{0CF774D0-F077-11D1-B1BC-00C04F86C324}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell]@="opennew"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open]@="Open in S&ame Window""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5732"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" -nohome"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURL"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew]@="&Open""MUIVerb"="@C:\\Windows\\System32\\ieframe.dll,-5731"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec]@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,""NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Application]@="IExplore"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\IfExec]@="*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\ddeexec\Topic]@="WWW_OpenURLNewWindow"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\print\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\  00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\  73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\  00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\  4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\printto\command]@=hex(2):72,00,75,00,6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,\  00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\  73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,68,00,74,00,6d,00,6c,\  00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,48,00,54,00,\  4d,00,4c,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,32,00,22,00,20,\  00,22,00,25,00,33,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,34,00,22,00,00,00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed]@="HTML Plugin Document""AppUserModelID"="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile_FullWindowEmbed\CLSID]@="{25336921-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm]"PerceivedType"="document"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.htm\ShellEx\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]@="{f8b8412b-dea3-4130-b36c-5e8be73106ac}"
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithProgids]"htmlfile"=hex(0):

Apple USB-Ethernet Adapter Drivers for Windows 7 64-bit [UPDATED x2]

Through a series of incredibly unbelievable events I ended up needing to use an Apple USB-Ethernet adapter on this fully loaded Alienware M17X laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. The rest of you will probably be approaching this from the much more believable but equally incredible event of installing Boot Camp on your new MacBook Air. Congratulations.

[UPDATE 1/9/2013]
The driver link below has been updated now that MobileMe is dead!

[UPDATE 9/14/2011]
The proper driver is now included in Boot Camp 4.0 from Apple.  At the time of this writing the only way to get 4.0 is to download it from your Mac by running Boot Camp assistant and asking it to download Windows support files.
[/UPDATE]

Originally posted 8/10/2011...

Anyway, why these drivers are so hard to find is beyond me. Here’s the link to them on my iDisk. When iDisk becomes iCloud I will have to update this link, remind me if necessary. Apple USB-Ethernet Win7 64-bit Drivers

The .ini files were modified as taught by: YouGottaBeKiddingYou