Vista doesn’t suck!
So soon everyone forgets that when Windows XP came out, for years everyone complained about it and told everyone to stay away and use Windows 2000? Now those same people are telling others to use XP instead of Vista, when there isn’t any major issues with it. The only problems I’ve had was ONE driver issue, which I solved. If you’re getting a new system, Vista should work fine on it. However I have no experience with upgrading older systems to Vista and probably not recommend it. That sounds like a bad thing, but hey – Vista wasn’t meant for old computers!
Call of Duty 4 has the ability to turn respawns off!
I’ve been waiting for it since Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, a game that actually has the option to turn respawning off! This makes dying SUCK instead of a minor inconvenience and makes everyone play more carefully, rather than running around and clicking at random shit.
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Don’t expect an XP repair install to work!
Try restoring the system to an earlier state with the recovery console in safe mode, or in safe mode with command prompt first! If you do a repair install it clears all restore points, so if the repair install doesn’t work, you’re screwed and have to format!
Windows XP black screen on bootup with only mouse working
Problems:
- Can’t load Windows XP GUI, all I get is my mouse on a black screen.
- Can’t load “Safe mode with command prompt”
- Can’t do a repair install or use the repair console to fix the problem.
What happened:
It wasn’t my computer and I wasn’t there when it broke down, but apparently someone was playing World of Warcraft and they got a message box (probably outside of the game) asking them a question, to which they responded “yes” (or whatever positive answer there was) which led to a blue screen and wouldn’t allow the PC to boot into windows. There was an error message that said something roughly like “cannot load windows”. I got an explanation of what went wrong from people who don’t know much about computers so it’s hard to explain in detail. They did a repair install without me and that led to the problem this post is based on.
Solution:
- Backup data using another PC and format.
Important Tip:
- When you have a catastrophic failure, don’t do a repair install of windows until you’ve tried the recovery console via “Safe Mode with Command Prompt”. Repair installs sometimes won’t work! When you do a repair install, it immediately deletes all restore points so you have no hope but to reformat if the repair install doesn’t work.
Windows XP Resuming Setup Loop
The problem: I have a computer that died from what I think is a virus, but after doing a repair install, it just starts up the XP setup every time it boots instead of windows. It crashes somewhere during the “installing devices” part.
The solution: I booted from the CD and started the repair install again from scratch and it stopped the loop.
The reason: The repair install was started at someone else’s house, with different equipment connected
