252 posts tagged with "Windows"

Having problems where your monitor rotation is wrong, such as the start menu ending up upside down at the top of the screen? Follow the instructions below to repair.

Common fix for those using an Intel graphics driver, try the following Key combination:

1. On the keyboard, press and hold the: CTRL+ALT key then hold down the UP-ARROW button, to switch the screen rotation, keep pressing the UP-ARROW till you get your desired rotation.

If the step above didn’t work, try this:

1. Look for the Time on the Start Bar
2. Around the time will be small little icons, now position your mouse you might have to put it sideways and click to reveal any hidden icons on the small arrow.
3. Look for the Graphics driver tray icon, it might be nVidia (which is a green icon) or ATI (which is a red icon) and right click it.
4. Left click Rotation
5. Choose Normal
6. Press Ok (within 15 seconds) on the dialog Window that opens to accept the changes if your rotation is now the right way.

To repair this issue you need to have a Windows XP CD.

1. First you need to boot from the Windows CD
2. Once at the first “welcome” screen, press R to enter the Recovery Console
3. Press the number of the Windows install you would like to repair (ie 1)
4. Type in your Administrator password if there is one, if not press Enter.
5. Now we need to copy two files from the Windows CD to your Windows install folders, type in the commands below:
6. copy d:I386ntldr C: (Press Enter)
7. copy d:I386ntdetect.com C: (Press Enter)
8. Type: exit

Your computer will now restart, remove the Windows CD and you should now have a bootable Windows installation.

In order to remove the Ads on the sidebar, we need to block them using an inbuilt list called the HOST file.

1. Go to a machine with Handycafe installed
2. Click on My Computer/Computer
3. Goto: C:WindowsSystem32drivers
4. Find the “hosts” file
5. Right click the host file and left click Properties
6. Uncheck Use Read Only and left click Apply
7. Right click the hosts file and left click Open With
8. Select Notepad
9. Ignoring everything listed in the file, go to the bottom of the file and enter in the following:
10. 127.0.0.1 ad.handycafe.com
11. 127.0.0.1 search.handycafe.com
12. Click File
13. Click Save
14. Restart the machine and the Ads should now vanish, do the same procedure on all your Café machines.

Note: Using a local firewall on the machine you could also block the Domains as another method of blocking them.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type: fonts
4. Press Enter
5. The font dialog box will open. All you need to do now is just drag the font files you want to install into the folder.

Alternatively you can doing the following:

1. Click File
2. Select Install New Font
3. Browse and locate the font
4. Press ok.

The fonts directory is located at C:WINDOWSFonts

Getting the “Faulting application name: SimCitySocieties.exe, version: 1.0.4.243” and cannot play your game? Try the fix below.

Usually caused by the Tradmark characters in a folder name “™” which Windows does not support.

1. Uninstall SimCity Societies
2. Reinstall the game and make sure the install path is C:Program FilesElectronic ArtsSimCity Societies

Note: If the above does not work, then you need to edit the registry to change the games install path: “Install Dir” in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREElectronic ArtsSimCity Societies”