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Lunaria

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Posted on 06-15-18 12:35:54 AM Link | Quote
This is more for random weird and or fun things. I feel we do more than enough complaining about the computing stuff we dislike, hehe.
Anyway, thread for stories where something weird happened in relation to computer stuff, could be anything!

So, I'll start!

A few years ago I tried to play the PC RPG PAOtRPoD3, but it just wouldn't start. It kept having some rather weird error message that I had to look around for quite some time on how to solve. Turns out that the game requires a very specific windows component to run that I had disabled: Windows Media Player. It was quite shocking to me, I mean I disabled that thing shortly after installing the OS because it wasn't anything I planned on using. I have never really heard of anything requiring it to run before either. So I always find it a bit funny looking back on it.

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RanAS
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Posted on 06-17-18 09:13:39 PM Link | Quote
My old Windows 7 installation used to have problems with japanese characters (hiragana, katakana and kanji). Most programs displayed them just fine, but Windows Explorer had some trouble with them, oftenly reverting them to "squares". Turns out, Explorer had a bug where if it wasn't the first application to display japanese characters on-screen, it wouldn't be able to display them at all until restarting.

Some people "fixed" it by placing a file with a single japanese character as its filename on the desktop, that way Explorer would always be the first to display it. Since I had Tagaini Jisho installed, I instead opted to a more organized approach: I renamed its shortcut to "互 Tagaini Jisho". And it worked!

Recently when I reinstalled Windows 7, I installed most optional updates rather than just the recommended ones (making sure to keep the telemetry ones away). It seems like one of those updates fixed the issue, so now it's just "Tagaini Jisho" again.

Out of all weird fixes I've done so far, this one was actually kinda cool.

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buphomet

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Posted on 07-14-19 01:38:14 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Lunaria


Turns out that the game requires a very specific windows component to run that I had disabled: Windows Media Player. It was quite shocking to me, I mean I disabled that thing shortly after installing the OS because it wasn't anything I planned on using.



Uuuhm, weird and shocking.

Originally posted by RanAS


Out of all weird fixes I've done so far, this one was actually kinda cool.



Cool, indeed.

Sorry to disappoint but with my PC use limited to about 10 years, my quirks may not sound as interesting.

Or, wait, does having a fully functional Linux installation count as quirk?
Jamie
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Posted on 07-14-19 07:31:27 PM Link | Quote
the Mr. Enigma registry key in XP that no one knew what was it for years
buphomet

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Posted on 07-21-19 07:54:40 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Jamie
the Mr. Enigma registry key in XP that no one knew what was it for years


Would you mind elaborating for non-Windows users?


Windows registry - The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry



A registry key should, presumably have to do with retrieving these database entries.

Okay, this got a bit too complicated while reading it off Wikipedia. Nevermind!
xdaniel
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Posted on 07-21-19 12:57:28 PM Link | Quote
Julbench3.1  94% full, 55K free, 824K in use
If I remember correctly, the original Windows XP release - the one that was widely pirated with the FCKGW product key - had some sort of weird visual glitch with folder paths in the Explorer.

I don't remember the specifics because it's been so long, but the path displayed in the Explorer address bar would glitch and turn into a string of garbage characters, i.e. your "C:\Windows\" or whatever turning into something akin to "ÿ^[´■³¯ä", if you did something slightly unusual. I can't remember what that something was, but it might've been as simple as, I dunno, pressing F5 to refresh the window while the path was highlighted or the address bar was focused.


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buphomet

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Posted on 07-22-19 06:26:35 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by xdaniel
If I remember correctly, the original Windows XP release - the one that was widely pirated with the FCKGW product key - had some sort of weird visual glitch with folder paths in the Explorer.

I don't remember the specifics because it's been so long, but the path displayed in the Explorer address bar would glitch and turn into a string of garbage characters, i.e. your "C:\Windows\" or whatever turning into something akin to "ÿ^[´■³¯ä", if you did something slightly unusual. I can't remember what that something was, but it might've been as simple as, I dunno, pressing F5 to refresh the window while the path was highlighted or the address bar was focused.


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Halian

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Posted on 07-22-19 06:28:47 AM (last edited by Halian at 07-08-20 07:00:07 PM) Link | Quote
maple post-o-matic 9.3
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xdaniel
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Posted on 07-22-19 08:40:31 AM Link | Quote
Julbench3.1  94% full, 55K free, 824K in use
Originally posted by buphomet
What is your footer all about ?

The layout's this in version 3.1, while the signature's just links, PC specs, anime references.


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