WanderingAries

Sure, but you'll notice that the game will still end up redownloaded everything. Safest thing to do is to tell the launcher to install the game, go a way for a while (don't let it goto sleep/hybernate), and check back in an hour or so depending on your DL rate. Staged downloading tends to frustrate most people who attempt to play the game right away it seems.

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Heh, yeah...there's also this little write-up I did. :-p

Is the sword available already? I have all three tokens spent (last thing I did before losing VIP) so whatever was in them I got.

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So...it's still temperature related, but CoX is the only one that's pushing your hardware enough to reach them. I wonder if it's possible that different drivers may result in lower temps (optimization effect)?

The PC I worked on last year for someone had SO MUCH crap inside of it that I could have made a chia pet from scratch.

This is my first thought on any system nomatter the OS.

I'm with Forbin on this one as we had such discussions just prior to Freedom and that is the response I remember hearing. Likely because of the whole "never say never" thing in an evolving business.

Considering WHO controls the axe, that reference makes loads of sense. ;-)

Not to sound snarky, but please clarify. Do you mean that you uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled, did a cold boot OR you completely wiped the drive and reinstalled everything from scratch?

I'm pretty sure this is what I was recalling as well.

I "retired" from CoX back when I started my BS degree after taking a few years off post AS degree. That took me about 2yrs to get and I spent the last bit of leftover "good grades" money I got from the school to sub just prior to Freedom. Now had I lost any of my names in that short of time because of threads like this, even though I figured I'd never come back, then I'd have to personally come thwap the supporters in the heads.

People leave for different reasons and after a while can even forget about CoX, but then you find that email hiding in an old dusty inbox from your cancelled sub and find yourself searching for old friends. Wouldn't you like your room the way you left it if you came back?

Funny enough, they posted this on FB...which is funny in that they got locked out of THAT (and a few others) earlier this month didn't they?

Actually it's a little more sensative than that, BUT...it's way easier to fix than that sounds. Simply put, it involves a touchtone phone, patience to deal with an automated system (still easier than That sounds), and the ability to see and type. I've probably done that 2-3 times in the last year (ok, so I lost track of which laptop had which license...) and the whole double checking the verification numbers is what took the longest.

A thousand times THIS. I always create a baseline (OS + hardware drivers only) image of my windows installation and then I'll do a +Software image as well once I install my core software.

I'm sure that Acronis must be decent as it was mentioned, but something I found out the hard way was that Win7 uses a different version of NTFS than XP and my older cloning software couldn't see the drive to clone my mom's laptop when she got it. I had to deal with the builtin windows backup that worked, but when I had to use it to restore her system (I forget what the issue was, probably a bloody IE toolbar she DL) it resulted in losing the system's recovery partition (that 200mb partition Win7 creates on a fresh install).

For reference, I've been using Avanquest's Partition Commander and Perfect Image for a number of years now.

As for XP Mode, unless you're wanting to run something that requires 3D graphics, then you could also create a virtual machine separate from XPM so that you don't screw that up, but unless we know What you're wanting to preserve, then there's no way we can give you an absolute answer. IE: There's no way for me to run my circa Win95 games on anything beyond true XP and since I still love them, then that's a killjoy. That said, unless it's a laptop, then I could just nab a small drive to put XP on. Dual-boot works, but it can get annoying after a while and if you do it install the older OS first.

I generally avoid Home versions like the plague. As for version, I tend to stick to professional as the only reason to get Ultimate is if you're doing something that requires file encryption. If you're a student, then you can actually get Pro for free btw through the (previously known as) MSDNAA system.

Isn't there a "hide emblem" option? Granted, this is a per-toon method, but I thought I saw it.

More like one of the following:
1) Someone's a sloppy kisser;
2) had an O.S! moment in the car while applying it;
3) just got finished nomming on somebody...IE: that's not lipstick! ;-)