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Archive for the 'Vista' Category

That FFmpeg Problem on Vista

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Words cannot express how much I *loathe* Vista. Those of you who have followed my blogs back when must recall .
Anyway… this one is like a mosquito buzzing around your head. You try to ignore it, hoping it will go away. Then get annoyed and try to slap it but it fail. Finally, like today, [...]

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WoW – the Fix

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did.
In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, [...]

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WoW Woes

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch.
Now when I restarted it, the News page refused [...]

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BEFORE You Subscribe to WoW…

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Make sure you patch the game first.
I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching.
I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly not being [...]

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SD Card Reader Down

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!
While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:
Windows cannot load the device [...]

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Not a Day for Online Gaming

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited… and waited… half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look for my old Sacred Gold [...]

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Missing GB in Vista Recovered!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

When I first acquired my Lenovo v100, my 100GB went from 70GB free to 0.5GB free in a matter of weeks. This never happened on XP, 98SE, or any other system I had. Only with Vista.
Initially I thought the problem was just system restore. I’d managed to free 13GB by deleting all the old restore [...]

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Vista Adventures: Common XP Problems

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Yes, I’ve tons of complaints about Vista but XP has driven me up the wall before. It is always the case that when you have something new to complain about, the old gets forgotten. It is convenient I have forgotten the number of reformats I had had to do and the many restarts. This article [...]

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Vista Adventures: SP1

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

After much consideration, I decided my time is better spent not trying to downgrade to XP – I hate reformatting and all the work that it involves unless the computer isn’t mine. Instead, I should look towards SP1 with hope that it can solve the numerous problems Vista has inflicted me with.
Okay, I confess I [...]

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So I am online intermittently at night and have to tend to my baby when he cries. What I didn’t expect when I decided to run Windows Update was that it would, against my wishes when I stepped away from the computer to nurse baby, restart the computer after it finished installing the updates (this [...]

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