Well, I technically only own 3 systems, PC, xbox 360 and dreamcast. Dreamcast always hurts my wrists, and my PC's xbox S cter is overall good in flying games and esp in dcuo...but it bruises your thumbs esp your bottom thumb. xbox 360 seems to be the winner, even if my hands are kind of small, and at times aiming is difficult. I have had no problems with my hands on this particular brand of controller. However the vibration without a rechargable battery pack that lasts long (hi ps4, ps3)....I think they are called corded...I yearn for the dreamcast in vibrational functionality, dreamcast's sega jump pack infact has the right vibrational gimick. Xbox 360 is = to it, but a little lesspowerful on most games. Personally, I think I shot this targeted review pointblank range so it does not come back. But in the end, they are all the same. Xb cter S works great for wt via xpadder. Check out my youtube channel dcshooters to dl the drivers.
Consoles vs PC games
This weeks rant includes a small rant about computers being hefty, ie firefox cant have too many bookmarks on the menu bar or some sort of syncing problem will occur or c++ 2013 needs to be installed not 2012! However, I did some tests, and Firefox works fluidly with the menu bar off and bookmarks on. Sometimes you want to just play the game instead of syphon through the registry, delete remnances and then reinstall...which if you do inaccurately, the dashboard will still not be installed. Consoles bypass maintenance completly, and are good for that...and usually empty servers. I still play my PC though, like really...crossplatform for all games where are you? If you like social media, games, google earth, adobe ps yes go with PC...oh wait. But consoles usually do the games better, and more effectively and I've seen games like gta v being perfered on Xbox 360 against all competiting consoles. I don't really know. The interface and access to social media on consoles can be faster. The graphics ie i argued about this before, witcher 2 on xbox 360, can be more appealing. The way the graphics turn out can be better ie dreamcast's tony hawk 2 is more fun then the xbox 360's newer version imho. The graphics just flow well with the gameplay. Textures and lighting on certain graphics cards are also unique, hence PC can't do effects that ps4's driveclub can do. IF you ignore the maintenance issues and unstable bootup problems that PCs can't get rid of...and possibly a certain age group. Hence I can do this right now, turn off my pc during a boot process for an 8 hour repair job. Yes, I hav to research the boot screen's intro, I need another harddrive, I EVEN need windows xp (working) with that hard drive. Then I need a list of updates I 'like'...PCs suck in that way, and will always suck compared to market friendly consoles. A large portion of your audience is children, and that is something they DO NOT use. YET I can buy a nice 2013 PC at the same price of a new Ps4. YET AGAIN there is always maintenance issues. Just yesterday, I restumbled upon my app folder under user name (yes its invisible), and the junk on it is deplorable. From firefox, to netflix to idk wat...didnt need to be there. Nice is 8gb ram, radeon 5700hd, 100gb harddrive, icore3 quadcore processor. That will play any game. Its a tie. Go figure.
Anyways the process for casual maintenance on a PC is easy:
A Very short tutorial, annotations required. Anyways if your dashboard crashes often, or web browser seems slower, you have malware.
Complete malware removal below:
1.) Go to internet options in control panel, uncheck revocations, also there is an autoclean option for windows 7 atleast. Log onto safemode for sfc /scannow.
2.) Go to your user profile, type appdata...clean everything in that folder, back it up if you liek. Use unlocker for this. Limit Icon building on your desktop for memory.
3.) Use Spywareblaster to change your IE homepage, delete anything affected by malware ie videocard drivers may not work.
4.) Uninstall firefox ie delete profile in roaming, make sure only virus scanner for malware is installed. Backup bookmarks. Reinstall with no toolbars, check firefox settings, maybe uncheck ocsp. Check/ change security.msc on automated settings with your user logon ex network service is changed to local service. Leave local profile in firefox deleted (also in system32).
5.) Use adware cleaner to remove the infected homepage. Then jnk remover &rkill then boot with virus scan. Disable task scheduler functions incase of blue screen eg 3 dif scan bots may cause problems. If irq error still occurs uninstall PCI bus in device manager to have windows 7 reinstall all drivers& uninst/reinstall virus scanner.
6.) Make sure to use your weekly casual maintenance, you know like toolbar removal, cleaning programs, defrags and scans. Maybe check startup entries on CCleaner. If need be recheck for malware with adware cleaner, jrt removal etc.
7.) Windows 8&10 have permanent signature disable mode. Windows 7 doesnt. Disable Iobit uninstaller in msconfig, it contains spyware yet still can be used disabled. Start Windows 7 in signature disable mode to run virus affected programs. Disable Windows Search in services.
8.) Say the problem persists and ure trojan is a deadly vbs malware that curropts o/s files such as ntuser.dat or log2. Log on to admin, just manually delete anything your virus scanner finds. It will still work where as xp would not becuase user apps are located in 3 different places in 7. One place is under system32/config. Use hib if left off for a week, standby mode can get unstable.
9.) manually delete C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache & C:\Users\ga\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache and task schedule an appcleanup.bat file with forfiles /p "C:\Users\USERNAME\Appdata\etc" /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -0 & for other appdata folder files.
forfiles /p "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Tmp" /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -0
save as .bat, schedule a task.
*change videocache location ie temp variables to tmp or !?! folder to delete via advanced settings under env variables del old tmp. Lock new folder in security via folder properties /security /edit permissions uncheck include inheritant objects. Lock appdata folders in sys32&user using this method.
-Make sure to put tasks on idle. It prevents malware to go through userapps.
PS if you do delete everything in appdata (not roaming, just local, localow) make sure youre familiar with changing the memorydump size to 256k. You will know its working if your PC boots much faster. Malware is well known to hide itself greatly in these folders. Hence this tutorial was made for testing spyware by downloading & executing viruses or going to virus prone webpages.
certutil -URLcache * delete Deletes Crypturlcache, crypto folders, signatures.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3r9yc864gd0j/cmd.exe
-Crypturl cache is why library computers work so well. Because either with smartcards or logins, they can control data flow. They don't use signatures. Also malware such as AVscanner is not detected by virus scans. Make an exe shortcut or DL the exe, because standby mode and restarts reintegrate the signatures in your browser over time. Sigs validate the site you want to 'call' they will reply whether it be for ads or other. Use task schedule to activate the DL file.
*ASC is data intrusion, it contains spyware or conflicts with virus scanners. For Web plugins and safe web browsers use virus scanner. Don't use gamebooster, it hijacks ur systemprofile. Disable all non-game rules in fw.
8gb Pae tool works well without gpu rendering on browsers, windows tweaking.com contains malware, i do a repair twice ie 2nd time with virus scan to catch it. This can avoid bootdisc repair.
DONT DELETE ANYTHING IN MICROSOFT ROAMING, Delete everything in local, roaming and localow. Your process manager should look like this http://bit.ly/2oipgCg with 1 taskhost process. Notice your pc will run much faster.
Malware gets bank accounts, desktop, emails, views, user accounts. It even gets info on your private life. Third party PC Apps ARE malware or slow ur pc. Ever get your res disabled? Wonder why the mouse cursor is broken? Its even in hardware malfunction.
Its tricky but your games that are dashboard compatible should work well...if youd really like to screw up, turn off your pc during bootup processes (all the updates that DO NOT avoid pae tool are found in this blog somewhere, Yep I SURE LIKE MY 8GB WIN32 x86)...or DO NOTHING, GET BOOTED FROM GAMES< GET CRASHES< SLOWED DOWN BROWSERS, REINSTALL BROKEN DASHBOARDS AND MORE FAKE HARDWARE FUNCTIONS. IDK...buy a console, turn it on, and play!
No really, if you do delete everything in Roaming, appdata etc. make sure youre familiar with changing the memorydump size to 256k. You will know its working if your PC boots at 56 seconds instead of like 2 minutes ie https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/204214-dump-file-change-default-location.html. Malware is well known to hide itself greatly in these folders, and this might cause instability if you delete it all. No really the problem is a dashboard from a videogame you buy is infact like using internet explorer, or firefox...its its own webpage, and they can add any app! To even exe malware, hello...2005 ati video card drivers. Fairly unsafe.
Unsafe fonts just require you to show folders in organization tool, then to rename and reset the computer. Easy. This is a tactic that IOBIT the company uses or even WINDOWS UPDATE, they change your profile's iconbuild.db file (appdata>local a file called iconcache can be changed deleted, but uhoh its invisible, so u got to make it visible) so you won't be able to use your desktop to save files. This disables your desktop. If not iobit then spyware in general.
My Xbox cter Battery died again?!?
PS to recharge batteries on your cter (with a power meter), you can just use a standard milamp charger from a cellphone or foreign device, maybe an old sega genesis. The pos goes to the pos of an AA battery, the neg goes to a neg. Just sit and wait. However, I do use an MA fan for that because my amp charger is rated at 6 amps. It resulfates my larger 12 volt cells I use to a few mopeds I own (larger 12v cells take 48 hrs to recharge). A fan is always useful (+ goes to +terminal of aa, neg to like the 12 volt or grid's neg). It might also prevent the battery from exploding if you leave it on the grid. The powermeter of course tells you which is neg and pos. Lead acid batteries generally last 3-5 years, if they last a few months you are using them incorrectly even if its for an all-electric powered device.
Actually minor update, you need a 6amp 9 volt charger to serial connect with an 9volt ma charger. You just need a step up transformer so that the battery doesnt get hot while charging...but the higher the voltage, as long as your serial connected 9volt+9volt low ma charger can handle it, the better. Batteries cant get hot when charging. A 9volt battery alone won't work. Put twine it with a higher 6amp charger.
....as for the NAT servers, i think they don't effect most games. Maybe GTA V maybe not. Its rec to have them configured on your console.
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