Creative ZEN X-Fi Wireless MP3 Player

I recently purchased the Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 player because my Creative Zen Vision W was just too bulky to use as a go anywhere player.

The X-Fi is very sleek at 3.3" wide and 2.2" tall with a thickness of .5". I purchased the 32GB model with built in Wi-Fi capability. I have been very pleased with the X-Fi's sound quality it is unsurpassed by any other player I have listened to. The Creative software that comes with the X-Fi is very easy to use with drag and drop similar to iTunes. I did have problems trying to use Windows Media Player 11 to sync with the X-Fi, if I tried to remove too many files from the player through Media Player it would freeze up the player. This problem was not present when I would use either the Creative software or just browsing the device in windows explorer. The player has a built in FM Tuner and the ability to record FM Radio. It also plays MPG, WMV, and DiVX formatted video files, the software comes with a video converter that will convert any video to be compatible with your player.

I was able to attach to my home wireless network in seconds with the device and it does a search for Creative compatible Media Servers, and it just so happens that my Iomega StorageNAS where I store all my music is compatible and was recognized as a device I could browse and add music to the X-Fi from. You can also install Creatives Media Server software on any PC you want the X-Fi to recognize.

The only con that I can see with the device is that all the buttons do not light up so you have to be able to feel your way around the buttons in a low-light situation.

The X-Fi comes in 3 storage capacities; 8GB,16GB, and 32GB. The 16GB and 32GB are the only ones that the Wi-Fi is available on.

Digeste.dll is not a valid windows image

The inital complaint was that this message popped up when the machine booted into Windows XP, and once they clicked OK on the box the desktop was blank and they could only push the power button to shut off the computer.

When I fired up the PC I booted directly into Safe-Mode first and noticed that explorer.exe kept crashing and restarting, so I knew I was dealing with a virus. I booted to the desktop and saw the message about digeste.dll was actually in a window titled "dwwin.exe Bad Image". Explorer still kept crashing and eventually didn't restart itself. I could manually start it by opening task manger and starting it in a new task. But it would just start the crasing and restarting all over again. I opened a command prompt and did a regsvr32 /u digeste.dll in c:\windows\system32 - I then deleted digeste.dll. Upon reboot I was able to use Webroots SpySweeper that was already installed on the system to run a full system scan and remove all other infections. I then installed AVG anti-virus as the system did not have any anti-virus software installed. A scan of the registry and HiJack came back clean. Problem solved.