Getting “/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error” error with Virtualbox?

1. The fix, re-install Guest Additions.

You need to download 3 DLLs click the links below to download and save them in a place you will remember and have easy access to for example your Desktop or Documents folder.

MSVCI70.dll

msvcp71.dll

msvcr71.dll

1. Once the files have been downloaded extract them.
2. Right click the files and select Copy
3. Open My Computer
4. Click on C:
5. Click on Windows
6. Go into the System32 folder
7. Right click and left click Paste
8. Select Yes to overwrite any files.
9. Launch Battle Tanks

Note: Tested on Windows 7, Windows Vista

Getting a green line at the top of each Youtube video? It has recently be caused by a recent Adobe Update, follow the guide below to repair:

1. Right click the Youtube video
2. Click Flash Player Settings
3. Make sure you are in the General settings tab (left most tab)
4. Uncheck “Use Hardware Acceleration”
5. Restart your browser

1. First you need to head to “Slingshot“
2. On the right hand side, Login to Your Account.
3. Click My Internet
4. Click Internet Cache Settings
5. You will see “You currently have caching ON” and below that you will “If you’d like to change your settings, Click here”
6. Click it to turn Slingshot’s Internet Caching off
7. Give it about one minute, then restart your Broadband modem.

Trying to install Microsoft Security Essentials and it is complaining about not having genuine Windows? Attempting to run the Windows Genuine Advantage validation and you are ending up with a blank screen? This is usually caused when your Time/Date is out.

1. Double left click on the Time/Date (Lower right of your screen)
2. Make  any adjustments, make sure that Year/Month and Day is correct
3. Click Ok
4. Run the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) validation again.