Adding New Blog to Windows Live Writer
July 13, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I thought for sure I had posted about this error I was receiving when trying to use Windows Live Writer, but I couldn’t find anything in my previous posts. If I’ve overlooked it, I apologize, but as it’s still bothering me and I’d like a solution I’ll write about it again anyway.
Is anyone else seeing this error?
What you can’t read that? I know, for some reason the error box is huge and I had to shrink it to fit it in the layout of the page, so the text of the error is below:
Unexpected Error Occurred
An unexpected error occurred while attempting to detect weblog settings:
Unable to cast COM object of type ‘mshtml.HTMLMetaElementClass’ to interface type ‘mshtml.IHTMLElement’. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID ‘{3050F1FF-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B}’ failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).
OK
I really enjoy using Windows Live Writer, but it kind of defeats the purpose since I can’t add a few of my other blogs to it because I’m getting this error.
- Is there a limit to the number of sites I can write with WLW?
- Is it a server side issue? Or a local issue?
I don’t think it would be local since other blogs are working fine locally.
Some other piece of software has corrupted your IE component registration. The easiest way to fix this is to reinstall IE7.
LMK if that doesn’t fix it!
JOE! You’re my new favorite reader! That worked. Took awhile for the installer to uninstall my existing copy of IE7 and reinstall things, but when it was finished I was able to add my two other important blogs to Windows Live Writer. AND! My IE Developer Toolbar is working now too and it wasn’t before. Thanks so much!
I got exactly the same error, immediately after installing WLW and attempting to get it to link to my WordPress-based blog. I haven’t tried re-installing IE7 as I don’t want to mess up any bookmarks, cookies, etc.
I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t lose those settings. I didn’t lose any of them when I reinstalled. You could back them up just in case though.