Left 4 Dead SKIDROW Uninstall Font ****up

After trying to uninstall Left 4 Dead SKIDROW, there was a font mess-up where everything appeared to be bold. Some minutes of research later it appears that the installer changes the default location of fonts in the registry for example from:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Fonts/Arial (TrueType) "arial.ttf" to
"%your install dir%\Left 4 Dead\platform\vgui\fonts\arial.ttf"

In order to correct the situation go to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Fonts/ and start scrolling down to find all the fonts that had their values changed and change them back to the original path by deleting everything BUT the font filename for example "arial.ttf"

do create a restore point before editing registry values, and do not attempt this if the above don't make complete sense to you.

Wii game prompts for update even though the System menu is newer than the one on the disc

I softmodded a friend's wii, and went from 3.3 to 4.1 using this guide. I tried inserting Mario Kart Wii (original), which wouldn't run unless I ran the updater on the disc. It worked with the old 3.3, why would it do this with 4.1?

Apparently the game checks a whole lot of IOS that it needs in order to run, and if even one of them is missing, it prompts for an update (which will probably damage the wii, since it "updates" to an older System menu). I found many lists of games, along with which IOS they need in order to run; but I checked and all of the needed IOS were installed.

I tried Mario Kart Wii on my wii, and it was fine (I had followed the same procedure to upgrade/softmod mine), thus I ran AnyTitle deleter and compared the IOS installed on both wiis. The culprit was IOS14, it was present on my wii but missing from my friend's (but none of the lists I found online mentioned that IOS14 is needed for Mario Kart). I installed it with the help of Dop-IOS MOD. It worked, the update prompt disappeared and Mario Kart Wii was launched.

I know this is quite a specific problem; unlikely to happen to someone in the same way. I'm hoping that this post will help other people figure out why they're getting an update prompt even though their System menu is newer than the one on the game's disc.

"An error occurred while attempting to format the drive." error with WBFS Manager

Just close the program, right click its shortcut/exe and "Run as administrator" :)

Sansa clip+ not appearing in My Computer

Just navigate to
  Settings -> System Settings -> USB mode

and set it to "Auto"



If you happen to know what MTP/MSC are, then I guess you shouldn't be reading this post!

Chromium OS login error: "Network not connected and offline login failed"

Try using:

Username: Facepunch
without password

or
Username: chronos
without password

or
Username: chronos
Password: chronos

Internet explorer/Messenger don't connect while other browsers do

1. Close messenger

2. Go to the task manager (ctrl+shift+esc) / processes, and "end process" msnmsgr.exe

3. Reset IE (don't do this if you use IE as your browser, I don't thus didn't mind resetting everything) IE->Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->Reset

4. Re-open messenger.

Might not work for you. It did for me! If it doesn't, unchecking the "Automatically detect settings" box from Tools->Internet Options->Connections->Lan settings, might do the trick.

Cant detect network computers in Win 7 (maybe vista)

I did a Win 7 fresh installation on two machines and both had the same problem of detecting other pc's on the lan. So i disabled the IPv6 protocol in the properties of the network adapter and presto all the network pc's were automatically detected.