Application problems

[Tollund]

Originally Posted by Edi

Tollund, stop trolling. You gain nothing by being abusive and it is not going to do anyone else on the forum any good either.

Well, it will drive customers away from Shrapnel, and that's certainly a good thing as demonstrated by the fact that they still have the sexist Dom3 adds up.

[thejeff]

Edi, I'm not one to tell you how to do your job, but he hadn't posted on this in more than a day and half an hour after you told him to stop trolling he's back.

Telling trolls to stop trolling doesn't work. Not feeding them does.

[Edi]

So does banning them.

Since Tollund has seen fit to try to actively sabotage the forums and attempt to drive away other users through obnoxious behavior, there is no compelling interest for Shrapnel or anyone else to keep him here.

It does not help his case that he chooses to flame me both here and by PM for doing my job as a moderator of this forum.

[Maerlande]

Thanks Edi.

Torin asked for help. It would be horrific if folks asking for help got that kind of abuse regularly. Everyone has noobish problems.

[Ink]

Originally Posted by lch

One of the most popular methods of gaining access to a corporate network by hackers is to drop USB sticks labelled with "Documents" or "Private photos" on the company's parking area in the early morning. Some curious person WILL pick those up and plug it into the corporate working station to have a look what's on it. AutoPlay FTW.

this is why flash drives do not work on ANY government computer.

[nordlys]

Originally Posted by Tollund

Preferring to use a third-party program over integrated support is pathologically stupid.

And since when did Windows acquire integrated support of .rar or .7z?

[Loren]

Originally Posted by Torin

nordlys, you certainly know much.
I just had to change my drivers for another game but maybe it was not the graphics.
Whatever the reason i dont know because i chaged my hard drive and installed xp again.
Now i have dominions going again.
Be careful when windows asks to check for errors on hard disk when the computer is starting.
Things that used to work probably will be broken.
I wont let it do that again.

No. If you get prompted you want to let it check. Windows won't prompt for an error check unless something happened to make it suspicious--and whatever that event was is what messed your system up. If you don't check it you can end up with more damage in the future.

You're playing shoot-the-messenger.

[Torin]

Ok. Ill explain better.

The disk its broken phisically. Software wont fix it no matter the good intentions.
I was not getting another disk because:
laziness/lack of money/whatever

Think this example:

You go to a room, sit on a chair and read a book sitting.
Whats wrong with the room? i can use it.
But windows went there and saw the bed was broken. Then closed the whole room with a sign "broken room".
So i cant use the app "read a book on the chair" despite if windows didnt check the room i could still do that.

Same with files, an app use multiple files. If 1 file is broken but the app isnt using it. You can still use that app.

Dont check anyting. i know the disk is bad.

[Edi]

If the disk is bad, then there is no fix. You won't get it working again unless you replace the HD, and if you don't, you stand to lose all of your data unless you have it backed up. Because sooner or later, that disk WILL fail.

[Torin]

i replaced it