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Post by Gamesoul Master on Oct 20, 2006 4:03:14 GMT -5
I know it's supposed to create the .ini file itself, but with how "informative" johnmiller is being, I figured I'd skip past all the crap and just provide a solution that is guaranteed to succeed, as long as he's not doing something really stupid that he shouldn't be doing (like killing it from the task manager). With a ready-made psx.ini file that isn't read-only, only sheer stupidity can inhibit the resolution of his current problems. And if he still has this saving to memory card problem after using the psx.ini file that I provided, then the only possibly explanation is that the whole folder (and the contents within) are set to "Read-only", which we've already fully explained how to get rid of.
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Post by Ultima on Oct 20, 2006 11:59:34 GMT -5
Well I'd assume the "notepad file for configuration for psx" he was talking about was already the INI file... my guess is that he has extensions hidden.
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Oct 20, 2006 13:33:25 GMT -5
I think he was talking about the readme file. By default, an .ini file is not a Notepad file, even though it opens with Notepad. It has neither a Notepad icon nor a description mentioning anything about Notepad or even "text document". So for him to know it's a Notepad file, it'd either have to say so, or he'd have to open it, in which case he would know that he has a .ini file. Besides, despite how he's typed so far, I don't think he'd contradict himself so badly as to say that he doesn't have the file, and then he has the file.
But I'm sure he does have extensions hidden, as you have to change it yourself to show file extensions.
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Post by apocalypse on Oct 21, 2006 21:06:06 GMT -5
Thanks gamesoulmaster. All my problems were solved. I made a lot of "thank you" because you help me and I can now play and continue my favorite games.I felt very happy.... thank you,,,
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Post by patrickp on Oct 23, 2006 0:39:15 GMT -5
It would be nice, johnmiller, to let us know how your problem was solved: firstly, other people with the same problem might read this thread, and secondly, it's useful for the people who contributed to this thread to know just what it was - I'd guess it was that you had the folder/files set as read-only.
Incidentally, with reference to Gamesoul Master's comments on having file extensions hidden, it is most definitely worth deselecting that option so that you _can_ see file extensions. What Microsoft were thinking of when they included such a dumb option in all their operating systems, let alone having it set by default, I can't imagine - it's potentially dangerous.
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Oct 23, 2006 3:20:18 GMT -5
patrickp: Yeah, I agree strongly with disabling the hiding of file extensions. But Microsoft had the right idea by having them hidden by default. The idea is that when you click on a filename twice, the first thing that happens is all the text is selected. And people who don't even know that extensions can be shown are the kind of people who would probably rename a file without realizing that they *have* to re-add the extension at the end. Basically, it was done so that low-level users could easily rename their files without them having to know anything about the extension (and risk removing or changing it). Most people who know enough about file extensions knows how to make them be displayed. Yeah, I was sort-of wondering all of what was fixed, and what exactly fixed it. Just to know what of my advice was good, and what wasn't. And of course, for any others who end up here looking for an answer to a similar problem they may have.
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Post by patrickp on Oct 23, 2006 11:16:48 GMT -5
The problem, as I see it, GM, is that hiding file extensions makes it too easy to slip nasties in: suppose you whip up some unpleasant bit of malware, call it clickme.jpg.exe, and send it to someone who has commonly used file extensions hidden - they're just going to see clickme.jpg and...
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Oct 23, 2006 14:20:30 GMT -5
And... they're gonna be suspicious. Because it'll probably be the first time they've actually seen a file extension in Windows Explorer. So they'll be afraid to click it because it says "clickme" and it has something at the end that doesn't look right. And if they know anything about .jpg files (enough to know it's a picture), then they've observed by now that (at least in XP, which is what almost everybody uses who knows nothing about computers, else they have an older OS and they've had years to figure it out) by clicking it once, they'll see a thumbnail at the left side of the screen. When they don't see that thumbnail, they'll be even more suspicious.
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Post by getnuts on Oct 23, 2006 14:34:03 GMT -5
The problem, as I see it, GM, is that hiding file extensions makes it too easy to slip nasties in: suppose you whip up some unpleasant bit of malware, call it clickme.jpg.exe, and send it to someone who has commonly used file extensions hidden - they're just going to see clickme.jpg and... Exactly how my girlfriend got VBS Loveletter except it was an mp3 instead of jpg.
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Post by patrickp on Oct 23, 2006 22:43:55 GMT -5
See, GM?
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Oct 24, 2006 1:53:54 GMT -5
Well... I'm not gonna say what I think about her then... because if you have a collection (even a *small* collection) of songs, and none of them have ".mp3" after them, but then you come across *one* "song" that has it... and you actually double-click it... then you deserve what you get. "Hmm... all my songs just have the name, but *this* one that I downloaded from some unknown source on my downloading program has ".mp3" after it... I think I'll open it and find out why it's different than my whole song collection!" <-- (What you have to be thinking to do something like that) getnuts: Please teach your girlfriend computer basics and common sense, so that she may avoid such problems in the future. Edit: You see, patrickp, there is only a certain group of people who would actually fall for that. It's the same group of people who would pay Microsoft or some computer place outrageous money to fix their problem.
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Post by patrickp on Oct 24, 2006 10:12:38 GMT -5
It's also the same very large (a fair proportion of Windows users) group of people who have compromised machines and are (not knowingly) responsible for the proliferation of malware.
I can't help feeling that if M$ were a little less concerned about making their software into what they think is attractive to IT illiterates and a little more concerned with accepting their responsibilities as the major provider of operating systems and software around the world, we wouldn't have the deluge of malware and the congested internet we are lumbered with.
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Post by getnuts on Oct 24, 2006 12:21:30 GMT -5
This was like 6 years ago with her first computer so its kind of understandable. She's a bit more competent now though (ie. rips her own cd's to flac, can install internal hardware, etc). Makes life easier ;D
On M$, I agree completely. I've used windows since 3.1 and its really obvious they are of the position that the OS literally has to operate every aspect of average Joe's system because he is not pc savy. The automation is one of the reasons that people don't learn how to protect themselves. They assume Windows is built to do that for you when it actually provides all the essentials anyone could ever need to compromise security.
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Post by apocalypse on Oct 28, 2006 18:18:59 GMT -5
Was the" extension" you talking about is also the format of that file? (e.g. mp3, jpg, exe....) Can you tell to me what is the meaning of each extension and what was their function? I want to have a broadmind on computer/internet, sorry for being asker...
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Post by Ultima on Oct 28, 2006 18:56:04 GMT -5
filext.com has a pretty good list of filetype extensions and what applications use them.
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