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The first question you may be saying to yourself is, “I thought the Microsoft download page for Messenger 5.1 said Vista wasn’t a supported OS”. Well, it isn’t, at least not officially, but it does work (sort of). The answer to the question above that you don’t want to hear is, “You can’t”. Windows Vista [...]
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I know this is off-topic, but it has been a frustration of mine since I reinstalled Windows and I just resolved it. I reinstalled Windows only to find out that Steam and Team Fortress 2 did not like my Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum and my mic set as Line 2 instead of microphone. Initially I set [...]
I know this has been covered on other sites but I thought I would post it here for the benefit of our readers. Why would you want to do this? Well, because Notepad that comes with Windows is, well, if you’ve used it then you know what it’s like and have probably moved on to something [...]
Now first thing’s first…why would you want to do this? Well if any of you have booted to VistaPE or Vista you will have noticed the tastefully bland boot screen that is mostly empty except for a wonderful leprechaun green status bar that doesn’t even really show a status at all (as if a bar [...]
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I know this post isn’t relevant, but since today is “Talk like a pirate day” I thought I’d post one of my favorite pirate jokes for everyone to enjoy. So here goes…
Where does a pirate go for lunch? Arrrrrrrrrby’s!
Ok, ok… here’s another. Why couldn’t the 11 year old get into the movie? It was rated [...]
