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Your PC not acting well?Is your PC Making you pull out your hair? Do you want to learn more about computers? Well have no Fear! Welcome to the Offical, yes thats Right I said Offical Orion PC Help Desk! Ask any question you wish! Noo question will be ignored! No question is to "dumb." (trust me I've heard them all) If your having PC troubles ask away, please note I need as much info as possible to help diagonose or solve the issue. Want to learn some PC tips? Go and ask away! I will try to respond to your problems and questions as soon as possble. Sorry I cannot answer any Mac question I haven't touched a Mac in years.. Edit: I have now expanded into helping with programming issues too  (C++ stuff only though) (This has been a Paid Service Annoucment.) (Please Note any "dumb" question from Jello and Jacen Aratan will NOT be answered in a timley manner :p .) _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am. |
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Orion - Retired 
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Ok Here's a post with some usefull links. I will keep updating this as needed. If you don't know about this site and you are a Windows User you need to know about this. This site will patch your os with any of the bugs in any Windows OS. http://www.windowsupdate.com A good piece of software to have. This will scan your computer for any kind of spyware that any freeware or shareware program that you download and install. http://www.lavasoftusa.com or you can try spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html *NOTE* Don't have both installed or they will say each other is spyware. I like spybot better. A good free anti-virus program.. If you don't have a anti-virus I recommend you do. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php This site is good for information on ISP's(Internet Service Providers). It alos has a great little toolset for testing your internet connection and the forums are helpful for tweaking your pc to get the most out of your connection. http://www.broadbandreports.com Do you have windows XP or 2000 and a great video card? Seem to be stuck at about 60FPS, even though you say like com_maxfps 120? Simple fix http://www.ryanmh.com/files/reforce.zip is a fix for a Windows Bug that locks your frame rate at 60 fps when you can get higher. All you do is unzip that run it, click auto populate, hit Apply and reboot and boom FPS allover the place _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 25 2004 01:44am. |
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Gentleman Loser - Ex-Student 
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Ulic, If you still have the files, there may be an option for you to recover them. Like any encryption system, (other than one-time-pads, but thats another story), you CAN recover files that have been encrypted without the original key. Problem is, it usually takes quite some time to work out what key to use by brute force methods. Luckily there are some cool progz that can use all manner of clever stuff to shorten the length required to get your files back. Check out http://www.crackpassword.com/products/prs/otherms/efs/ It has a 30day trial, and costs $99 to buy outright, so give it a go and if it looks like it'll do the job, you can consider whether your lost files are worth the $99 recovery fee. PS. SaberWeildinKow , I put all my demo's in the : D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData\base\demos folder. The other thing to consider is what version of the game created the demo. 1.04 can only view demos created by 1.04. You can tell the difference by the file extensions used : .dm_16 is version 1.04 of the game, anything else isnt. Good luck all regards GL _______________ "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Bhagavad Gita & J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Darkwood - Student 
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I was gonna ask for something, but then I fixed it. w00t  great service anyway, fellow padawan _______________ -Darkwood- |
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Orion - Retired
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D@rth: Try getting some newer video drivers from either windows update or the manufactures website. Garaos: If your running XP/2k go to your Control Panel->Sound and Devices->Sounds tab and scroll down untill you see Start Windows or something to that effect. If you run 98/ME (not to sure about ME.) Still go to ur control panel but look for Sounds, and again Scroll down for Start Windows and choose your sound Saber: I have no clue I have never recorded a Demo, if there is anyone else who knows please reply Ulic: I had the same problem once too, and i have some bad news I did research and from what I found out there is no way to get those back, Every time you install XP it generates a encryption key that will be used system wide, and the only way I believe, to get them back is if you knew they key, and added it to some encryption list hidden deep in the OS. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 22 2003 06:45pm. |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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Well, here is my challenging question: In Windows XP Pro, you have the option of encrypting individual files. This is accessible in the file properties menu, and you must have NTFS file system. This turns the text label of the file green. You following me? Know how to encrypt the files? OK. Now for the problem. I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro in order to fix a problem. Obviously, I wanted to keep the files that I had encrypted (if you can't tell, it was important stuff). So I moved them to my second hard drive, reinstalled Windows, everything cool. Except...I get an "access is denied" for my encrypted files now, and cannot decrypt them. Any ideas how I gain back access to the files Windows encrypted for me? _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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SaberWeildinKow - Student 
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What am I doing wrong to view a demo? I have created the folder gamedata/academy/demo. put the demos in there. I have jamod... When I go to multiplayer there are no files in the play demo list  |
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Garos - Student 
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I can't remember where to look, to put a noise on startup. |
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Sniya - Student 
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easy for u to say!it took me months of beeging lasttime an broadband biggin this year means my beg quota\s gone _______________ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Bertrand Russell http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=970 |
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Rampage - Student 
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sniya, buy a new puter... |
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Brother Bean - Ex-Student 
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 When ever I try to start the game it just says "GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL Subsystem". Could you help me out??? Thanx! _______________ The Primary Edict- "It means only one thing, and everything: cut. Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. The lines are a portrayal of the dance. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don't allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit. It is the balance of life: death. It is the dance with death" -Richard Rahl Terry Goodkind's "Temple of the Winds" |
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Sniya - Student 
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a few of the jk3 levels are really dark with only 1 0r 2 textures working,my saber and model(dimly lit) oh some other people have had this prob _______________ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Bertrand Russell http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=970 This comment was edited by Sniya on Sep 20 2003 04:05pm. |
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Orion - Retired
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well if she cant get the thing to ask if she wants to save the download thats an easy fix: Before you download, make sure that the "Confirm open after download" option is selected. To verify this: 1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 2. Double-click Folder Options. 3. Click the File Types tab. 4. Scroll down to and click the .zip extension. 5. Click Advanced. 6. Verify that "Confirm open after download" is selected. You can also try Click the Restore Defaults in Internet Explorer. Tools->Internet Options->Advanced Tab->Restore Defaults button. Tell her that she can try to delete that Temp folder of all its contents, she can also go up to Start->Program Files->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Cleanup and run that it will clean the storage cached files on the system that are not important. That might help _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 20 2003 07:31am. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Yeah its a problem with any file she tries to download. She gets the error message immediately, no choice to open or save to disk. She's on a laptop running windows xp. I could have sworn that someone else had a similar problem a long time ago about downloading skins and maps here. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. This comment was edited by Buzz on Sep 20 2003 07:18am. |
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Orion - Retired
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hhmm ive never heard of that, is it any file, like zips, exes images? Does she try to save it to some other place like her desktop? _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Buzz - Student
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I've got a friend having a problem with downloading. This is what she told me: "c:\DOCUME~1\JENNIF~1\LOCALS~1\TEMP\coz7tb3d.exe could not be saved because the source file could not be read .. I get that every time i try to download something" Any clue on what she can do to fix that? _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Orion - Retired
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I would probably go for the RAM upgrade right now. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Thanx Orion for the tip! And C1.4 too .My question actually was, out of the two (upgrade memory or vid card) which would you recommend? Money is a BIG issue, so I can only upgrade one or the other. So, which one? Adding another 256MB of RDRAM would run me about $150 and adding the Radeon would cost me over $300. I still also need to pick up my copy of JK:JA too! I'm kinda leaning towards upping the memory, only bcuz of the $$$ issue.Thanx again! _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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Orion - Retired
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Are they complaining of things you have downloaded? or things that you are trying to zip/rar? _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Nero - Student 
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my zipping/rarring etc. programmes are sometimes acting weird. They are talking about corruption and stuff and I don't get why. i hope you know what it means -Nero _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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Orion - Retired
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woo cool thanks c1 _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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I agree that this can be a very helpful thread. will keep permanant if others dont mind _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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Orion - Retired
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OK. Time for a long post to answer questions: First: Sniya: You can try to take apart the keyboard but, I would use that as a last resort. You can possibly get some compressed air to get some stuff out. But a really good tip is to take ur keyboard turn it upside down and hit a corner on a flat surface to get any of loose dust, hair or food crumbs out from under it. Hope that helps; Next: SaberWeildingKow: Try http://www.broadbandreports.com there forums have a section for broadband tweaking. I believe its under the software section but you should be able to find it. They are really good and can probably give out links for windows 2k tweaking guides. Next: Hector: haha  Next: underhill: good idea i'll talk to DJ about it. Next: Smily: YAY U RULE!!!!!!! Gentleman Loser: Cool thanks _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Sauron-the-rasta-mon - Student 
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LOL HECTOR *ahem* that one was wheezy *cough* _______________ Ω Allehelgens Død Helveds Rike Ω This comment was edited by Sauron-the-rasta-mon on Sep 18 2003 01:51am. |
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Gentleman Loser - Ex-Student
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Oh yes, forgot to add, Props to orion for helping so many ppl with this thread!! I say good idea to make it permenant too! _______________ "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Bhagavad Gita & J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Gentleman Loser - Ex-Student 
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Hi SaberWeildinKow, Hope Orion doesnt mind me helping out with your query, but cable networks are kind of my speciality. The prob with lag is it can be caused by about a billion things, the trick is ruling out what isnt causing the prob 1st. 1) If you are running any kind of peer to peer/file sharing software (kazaa/morpheus etc), then either make sure you disable sharing with others, or close it down and make sure it doesnt load again on windows bootup. The cable modem upstream can become quickly saturated which will cripple your connection. 2) Windows 2k and XP are essentially auto-tuning when it comes to TCP/IP. Unless you have manually changed any tcp/ip settings in the past. Head over to www.dslreports.com and run the tweak tester they have there. IT'll test ur connection and let u know what, if anything could be tuned. 3) How are your download speeds ? Are they much slower than they should be ? What kind of ping times are you getting to local servers? (try going to a command prompt and pinging your ISP's homepage.) 4) If probs persist and your pings are poor, try running some traceroutes. Again u need to goto a command prmpt, then type: tracert ww.yourisp.com > C:\test.txt This will send your trace results to a file called trace.txt on your C: drive's root directory. Copy and paste the contents of that file, and post it up here. From that I can usually tell where any network problems lie. If you need any help with the above stuff, let us know! Regards GL PS Sniya, if it really is a load of hair in your keyboard, then you can try using a vacuum cleaner with the upholstry cleaning attachment to remove the hair. If that doesnt work, you'll need to gently prise off some of the keys to get at the stuff underneath. Just make sure you cup a hand over the key you're prising off as some keyboards have springs under the keys that tend to fly off when the key is removed. On the other hand, if it's just general muck under the keys, then take the keyboard to the bathroom/kitchen sink, and use an antistatic foaming cleanser (e.g Noboclean) to clean it. Dont be shy about soaking the keyboard, just make sure you dont use anything with water in it. And make very sure you let the keyboard dry overnight in a warm place before using it again. GL _______________ "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Bhagavad Gita & J. Robert Oppenheimer This comment was edited by Gentleman Loser on Sep 18 2003 01:20am. |
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Smilykrazy - Retired 
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ORION RULES!!!!!!!!! _______________ RIP MOM 06/29/58-07/31/08 Married to Koyi Donita 4/30/11 |
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