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I was sent a weird exe file, it was a kind of a creepy pasta, and it says you can play once and only once.. Well I knew that it has to do something with the register.. So.. I played the exe.. when it was over I replayed it, it didn't played liek the first time.. so I cleaned the registry with ccleaner, played it again.. and no luck.. Well.. I don't really like having unuseful keys on my registry.. so.. how can i remove it? 190.84.182.165 ( talk) 00:59, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm in Windows XP and trying to create a backup on a DVD. I get "Unable to create new folder" and "file system error 16389". Tried Microsoft fix it Center and Astroburn lite to no avail. I was able to do it just using Norton backup before but don't have that any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.185.58 ( talk) 14:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I went to that site and didn't find anything even remotely related to my problem. Can you think of something else? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.196.167 ( talk) 21:21, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
That's a good idea. I happen to have a blank USB flash drive. I'll go try that and let you know how it turns out.
Hiya,
My mate's been having trouble with his computer, and i'm trying to fix it but am very confused lol, and thought you lovely, lovely people may be able to help me. Basically every time he opens a full screen game the game's cursor is offset from where the click happens: everything else works perfectly fine and i think its probably just Dell weirdness combined with Vista weirdness, but i'm stumped. Best solution i can think of is preventing the cursor from being changed from the default, as I'm pretty sure its the cursor itself that is the problem, though i am very open to suggestions lol. so yeah, is there a way in Vista to prevent programs from changing the cursor?
Thanks much, Dan Hartas ( talk) 18:02, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I was told by one site I was on that I needed to enable cookies, and was given a set of instructions to do so, which changed nothing and the site still refused to work, however, on getting bored of all the little pop up messages asking about these cookie things, I reset to the default settings again, and since then it seems they have been permenantly disabled. Sites no longer record any information about what I have done on them, in particular links I have been to stay the same colour as they were before, and now I can't access my emails either. I have tried every set of settings I can in the cookie options page, and none of them make the slightest bit of difference. I was told by my email page that I have to turn them on, so I go, exactly as it instrusts, to the control panel, open up the internet options, go to advanced, and check the allow boxes on both sides. Nothing. I tested it with the session cookies option both on and off, neither made the slightest bit of difference.
So, what do I really do to get this fixed? is there a box I can check or a button to push that actually makes a difference?
Oh, and if it helps, I'm running windows 7 on IE9 here.
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 18:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, so where's this internet cache and javascript to be found? 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 20:05, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Fixed now, downloaded google chrome (which doesn't recognise google as a word, silly spellchecker) and it's all gone back to how it should be, thanks to smraedis and yunas for the ideas. (yep, wikipedia was beaten by a bunch of furries, even with a substantial head start. guess I know where to go for computer help now) 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 22:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I did already try a whole bunch of other settings changes as I went, changing the browser is the only thing that has worked, and I'm assured it has a lot of other advantages as well, without losing any of the benefits of IE9, this is something I've been putting off for a while anyway, it took something like this to give me the incentive to ask, what alternative would be best for me. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 09:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for a download helper or utility for Firefox that would let me customize it by filetype. For example, if I download an mp3 file, it would default to putting it in my Music folder; if it was a jpg, it would go to my Pictures folder; and so on. Does anyone know of anything out there with that functionality? 24.247.162.139 ( talk) 22:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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I was sent a weird exe file, it was a kind of a creepy pasta, and it says you can play once and only once.. Well I knew that it has to do something with the register.. So.. I played the exe.. when it was over I replayed it, it didn't played liek the first time.. so I cleaned the registry with ccleaner, played it again.. and no luck.. Well.. I don't really like having unuseful keys on my registry.. so.. how can i remove it? 190.84.182.165 ( talk) 00:59, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm in Windows XP and trying to create a backup on a DVD. I get "Unable to create new folder" and "file system error 16389". Tried Microsoft fix it Center and Astroburn lite to no avail. I was able to do it just using Norton backup before but don't have that any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.185.58 ( talk) 14:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I went to that site and didn't find anything even remotely related to my problem. Can you think of something else? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.196.167 ( talk) 21:21, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
That's a good idea. I happen to have a blank USB flash drive. I'll go try that and let you know how it turns out.
Hiya,
My mate's been having trouble with his computer, and i'm trying to fix it but am very confused lol, and thought you lovely, lovely people may be able to help me. Basically every time he opens a full screen game the game's cursor is offset from where the click happens: everything else works perfectly fine and i think its probably just Dell weirdness combined with Vista weirdness, but i'm stumped. Best solution i can think of is preventing the cursor from being changed from the default, as I'm pretty sure its the cursor itself that is the problem, though i am very open to suggestions lol. so yeah, is there a way in Vista to prevent programs from changing the cursor?
Thanks much, Dan Hartas ( talk) 18:02, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I was told by one site I was on that I needed to enable cookies, and was given a set of instructions to do so, which changed nothing and the site still refused to work, however, on getting bored of all the little pop up messages asking about these cookie things, I reset to the default settings again, and since then it seems they have been permenantly disabled. Sites no longer record any information about what I have done on them, in particular links I have been to stay the same colour as they were before, and now I can't access my emails either. I have tried every set of settings I can in the cookie options page, and none of them make the slightest bit of difference. I was told by my email page that I have to turn them on, so I go, exactly as it instrusts, to the control panel, open up the internet options, go to advanced, and check the allow boxes on both sides. Nothing. I tested it with the session cookies option both on and off, neither made the slightest bit of difference.
So, what do I really do to get this fixed? is there a box I can check or a button to push that actually makes a difference?
Oh, and if it helps, I'm running windows 7 on IE9 here.
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 18:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, so where's this internet cache and javascript to be found? 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 20:05, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Fixed now, downloaded google chrome (which doesn't recognise google as a word, silly spellchecker) and it's all gone back to how it should be, thanks to smraedis and yunas for the ideas. (yep, wikipedia was beaten by a bunch of furries, even with a substantial head start. guess I know where to go for computer help now) 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 22:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I did already try a whole bunch of other settings changes as I went, changing the browser is the only thing that has worked, and I'm assured it has a lot of other advantages as well, without losing any of the benefits of IE9, this is something I've been putting off for a while anyway, it took something like this to give me the incentive to ask, what alternative would be best for me. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 09:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for a download helper or utility for Firefox that would let me customize it by filetype. For example, if I download an mp3 file, it would default to putting it in my Music folder; if it was a jpg, it would go to my Pictures folder; and so on. Does anyone know of anything out there with that functionality? 24.247.162.139 ( talk) 22:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)