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October 4[edit]

Where's that picture of the Mac-laptop-filled auditorium-style classroom?[edit]

I remember this picture having a student with a non-Mac laptop, and that being the highlight of many modifications. Where can I find this picture? --156.34.83.223 (talk) 01:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HERE IS ALINK TO THE PICTURE http://losingcontext.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/look-at-them-apples.jpg

Ancient Computer...Ancient Games?[edit]

About a year and a half ago, my computer died, and my old man gave me his ancient Windows 98 to replace it. I was wondering if you guys could reccomend some good games for it (specifically First person shooters) that would work with a-get this-8mb VRAM vid card. I already have a few good games that I had on my old comp: Fallout and FO2, Red alert 2, roller coaster tycoon, GTA2, Counter Strike, stuff like that. All input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! P.S. I'm going into the military soon, so buying a new computer really isn't an option. --AtTheAbyss (talk) 03:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you liked Red Alert 2, you can legally download Red Alert for free from http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=62. As for first person shooters, there's Hidden & Dangerous, which has also been released as freeware, just google it to find a download link. --Silver Edge (talk) 04:12, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Get a web browser (which you obviously have) and flash. There are plenty of flash games online. I like to see what's new at http://www.funny-games.biz (I think they even have a first-person shooter or two). -- kainaw ™ 04:15, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Doom is a classic that should work if you have Windows 95 port, or the original floppy. The Star Wars: X-Wing series, while not strictly a FPS, is a fine series of games. You may also want to consider Delta Force, The House of the Dead 2, Battlezone (not strictly an FPS), Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Quake II, and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (not an FPS, but pretty darn fun). bibliomaniac 1 5 04:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All your computers are belong to us. Windows 98 is liable to be turned into a spambot if you start accessing the internet, especially for downloading freebies. Dmcq (talk) 11:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't spread this sort of nonsense around. Windows 98 is less vulnerable to being turned into a zombie than Windows XP because 1) unlike XP, it doesn't listen for network connections from other computers, and 2) it's too old for most of the current attack techniques to work. --Carnildo (talk) 20:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In a fit of nostalgia I recently installed "SimAnt" and "Outpost II" on my computer. Outpost II is about as I remember it. (Fun but with some interface weirdness.) but SimAnt was surprisingly easy. I don't recall it being so easy. APL (talk) 16:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Day of the Tentacle is, simply, perfect. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 17:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If your feeling adventurous you could throw Linux on it and actually run some semi-new games on it.:) ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 01:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Starsiege: Tribes is an old online FPS, still has a decent number of players, and is also available for free now. [1] has a copy with scripts, the anti-cheat software, and other goodies tossed in. 24.76.161.28 (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you could get your hands on Freedom Fighters (video game), I'd suggest that. Minimum requirements look good. Someone, please correct me if it does not run on Win98SE. Kushal (talk) 08:04, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Freedom Fighters requires 32mb VRAM, I have 8mb vram. --136.247.76.166 (talk) 01:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i had a d845 glly mobo w integrat3d graphics 8 mb vram, 128 mb ram

worked for me!12.169.180.158 (talk) 01:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget the original Half-Life series and related mods. bibliomaniac 1 5 01:31, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youtube access[edit]

I've noticed that I have problems accessing the regular YouTube URL, youtube.com, but are able to access the site again when I try using some other version of Youtube such as ca.youtube.com, the Canadian version. On websites linking to a Youtube video, I am unable to view it, which I speculated could be due to Flash issues. But if it were Flash-related, why am I able to access Canadian youtube? Why do I have problems accessing Youtube? Could it be my server or access to one? --Blue387 (talk) 07:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've been having the same problem. But Youtube.com takes me to Youtube.co.uk (and I'm in the states). Weird, eh? --70.167.58.6 (talk) 00:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GoogleTalk Error - The Handle is Invalid[edit]

Hi

Over the last few days in my office, certain people are obtaining errors saying that the "The handle is invalid" when they try to run GoogleTalk. It initially started with one or two people and its starting to spread...

Everyone has admin permissions, but we are using Symantic Endpoint, which is the only thing that is common among us all, with permissions set centrally.

Is it possible that Symantic is blocking it, or is it more likely that it is a virus? If Symantic is blocking it, how are we to find out? Its not possible to uninstall Endpoint without a password, which we do not have.

An extensive search on google revealed that onlthe error was extremely uncommon, and there were hardly any answers available.

We have also tried renaming the file, but that makes no difference.

This error, however, has only happened to people who have WindowsXP. It has not manifiested itself on machines with Vista

Thanks

123.238.1.240 (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)Alex[reply]

Uninstall[edit]

I tried to install a program for only 32-bit Vista in 64-bit, and obviously it didn't work. In fact, when it was installing and recognized the 64-bit environment, it began to uninstall what it had already installed and suddenly rebooted. Most of the installation still remained on my computer, and Windows Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel doesn't help, so I tried deleting everything in the program file. Then, one time when I rebooted my computer, it tried to install itself again, and remade the program file with everything in it. How can I get rid of it for good? Do I have to change something in the system registry? How do I do that? Thanks!--El aprendelenguas (talk) 18:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Depends... on what your trying to uninstall. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 02:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it security software? If it is, you can delete its driver (which is probably causing the problems) from C:\Windows\system32\drivers and uninstall it. --wj32 ^t/c 22:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If it's installing on a reboot, it may have placed itself in your registry. Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion, there are keys called "Run", "RunOnce", and "RunOnceEx". There would be a value inside these keys that points to the installer. You can also check the same path under HKEY_CURRENT_USER 76.175.71.98 (talk) 00:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]