I’ll get straight to the point.  I’ve been playing Team Fortress 2 with no significant issues since the beta was published via Steam…until recently.  For some reason I was randomly getting crashes when the map changed on a server.  The specific error is as given in the title of this post.  I could not for the [...]

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Ever had a bunch of music files in iTunes that you decided to move to somewhere else and you end up with the ! in front of the filename since iTunes can’t find it?  Well here’s an easier way to delete them than manually selecting each one and deleting it.  Maybe someday the software engineers who develop iTunes [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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