Winnipeg Experts

First of all there is a new virus out that disables the ability to open the registry.

Go into the Local Computer Policy-User Configuration - System - Prevent access to the registry editing tools. Change this item to “Disable”. If you enable it it actually stops you from running the registry editor.

Once you get that done. Open start menu - Type “regedit”. HKey_Local_User - Control Pannel - International - sTimeFormat. Remove “Virus Alert!”.

if you search the registry for “Virus alert” one more time you will find the product info to be changed as well.

Hope this helps.

Ok. I’ve been dicked aroun by EA so many times I figured I’d help all those people with the same issue I was having. This works in Windows XP, Vista 32 & Vista 64.

I’ve got a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW Widescreen monitor. I wanted to play BF2 and BF2142 with wide screen custom settings. The highest non custom resolution you can get in game is in the 1290×960. To get both the 1680×1050 resolution and Widescreen setting you must follow these steps. I assume you’ve already installed the game and have the latest patch installed. These step work in both BF2 and BF2142.

• Create a Shortcut on say your desktop to your BF2.
• Edit the shortcut to look similar to this:
• “C:\games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe” +menu 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050
• *note* You only want to add the “+menu 1… ” part to the end of the shortcut.
• Go to your profile settings. It is in your:
• C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles (For Vista)
• C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles (XP)
• Edit Video.conf files with notepad in each profile. Each profile will look like 001,002 etc. You also want to edit the Default Video.con profile.
• Find the line in : “VideoSettings.setResolution 800×600@60Hz” or something similar in EACH the Video.con file I just mentioned. Put a “rem ” without quotes at the begining of the line. This removes the command from the config file.
• Go in the game. Do NOT…. Change the resolution in the game. You can however change setting like Terrain Detail = High etc if you need to.
• Download and install widescreenfixer from here:
• Once installed select Bf2 from within widescreenfixer
• Run game. Once you’ve loaded up a level in the game hit the “;” key to make the screen True widescreen. You can see the difference this program makes here near the bottom of the page:
• To verify that the game is runing in the right resolution download & install fraps.
• Run FRAPS program and run game. Hit F10 in the game to take a screen shot to the default FRAPS folder. Verify the picture is the propper resolution.

Well there have been four XP pc’s that I’ve upgraded that the Internet Explorer Icon goes missing. This is only after upgrading to version 7. To fix the Icon missing you must follow these steps:

Go to START - Run

type “regedit”

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\DefaultIcon

If your icon is missing the default icon properties will look like this:

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe,-7.

What it should be is…
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe,-32528

Reboot. Your icon will now be back.

 I’ve gotten so many requests on how to change the Windows XP Start button, I’m going to teach you how to hack it to pieces manually.