hai con gà studios » Windows http://www.haicongastudios.net/wordpress This blog is about me. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:23:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 It’s a new alien life form http://www.haicongastudios.net/wordpress/2009/05/its-a-new-alien-life-form/ http://www.haicongastudios.net/wordpress/2009/05/its-a-new-alien-life-form/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 09:56:54 +0000 tido http://www.haicongastudios.net/wordpress/?p=96 Checked out EA Store last weekend and bought Dead Space for pretty cheap. Downloaded it, and guess what: I wouldn’t launch. Instead, an error message popped up telling me that it couldn’t connect to the authorization server. Who the fuck cares? I bought my game and I want to play it. After a few failed attempts, my patience ran out and I downloaded a crack.

Again, thank you for making life that much easier for us gamers.

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I have been neglecting a lot of my friends lately, not that I have so many in the first place. Note to self: Call friends.

Been satisfying my materialistic desires:
- Apple Keyboard (the one with anodized aluminum, cabled)
- Fallout 3 (yes, it is awesome)
- new monitor (full HD with component and HDMI, sweet!!)

Windows 7 (though beta) is awesome (so far).

The new Seagate 7200.12 hard drives are THIN (even the sales dude was awesomized).

Mother’s day this week. Got gift last week. Well prepared.

Valentine’s day next week. Need gift. May prove too difficult to handle.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 was, well, not much of a huge difference. Except from the fact that I no longer have to download tons of updates after a reformat, there aren’t that much to see on the surface. They STILL don’t have AHCI drivers included, so you will have to force-install those post-setup. Apart from that, I guess it’s just Windows XP refreshed.

On a totally unrelated note, these are the registry tweaks I use on my Windows Vista laptop. I’ve uploaded it here not for you, but for me. Feel free to use it though.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  1.  
  2. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
  3. "ScreenSaveActive"="0"
  4.  
  5. [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
  6. [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
  7.  
  8. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
  9. "FolderType"="NotSpecified"
  10.  
  11. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
  12. "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
  13.  
  14. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
  15. "DisableShutdownNamedPipe"=dword:00000001
  16. "HideFastUserSwitching"=dword:00000001
  17. "VerboseStatus"=dword:00000001
  18.  
  19. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows]
  20. "TurnOffWinCal"=dword:00000001
  21.  
  22. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows\Sidebar]
  23. "TurnOffSidebar"=dword:00000001
  24.  
  25. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
  26. "DisallowFlip3d"=dword:00000001
  27.  
  28. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\SideShow]
  29. "Disabled"=dword:00000001
  30.  
  31. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Collaboration]
  32. "TurnOffWindowsCollaboration"=dword:00000001
  33.  
  34. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting]
  35. "LoggingDisabled"=dword:00000001
  36.  
  37. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Mail]
  38. "ManualLaunchAllowed"=dword:00000000
  39.  
  40. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\IIS]
  41. "PreventIISInstall"=dword:00000001
  42.  
  43. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaCenter]
  44. "MediaCenter"=dword:00000001
  45.  
  46. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer]
  47. "PreventLibrarySharing"=dword:00000001
  48.  
  49. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMovieMaker]
  50. "MovieMaker"=dword:00000001
  51.  
  52. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
  53. "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
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