Twelve Years of Service
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RE: My colossal fuck-up! 07-21-2016, 07:14 PM
#16
I once tried deleting .dll files back in windows xp days to get space to play GTA vicecity. So after playing the game and restarting the PC next morning I was supprised
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Twelve Years of Service
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RE: My colossal fuck-up! 07-21-2016, 08:58 PM
#17
I used to make custom login screens for Windows XP a few years ago, and once I replaced msgina.dll with a corrupt version and locked myself out of my PC. Runtime error instead of the login screen. I could have fixed it by replacing msgina.dll with a stock copy, but I didn't know that at the time and just ended up reinstalling Windows. Another time, I used a Chinese XP UXTheme patcher and fucked the theme engine 6 ways from sunday because it wasn't designed for the English UXTheme...
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Thirteen Years of Service
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RE: My colossal fuck-up! 07-22-2016, 02:04 PM
#18
Haha. Glad I'm not the only one to make noob mistakes.
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Thirteen Years of Service
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RE: My colossal fuck-up! 07-22-2016, 02:37 PM
#19
Back 3 years ago when I first installed Linux, I DESTROYED my most important drive just by passing wrong parameters to the dd command, that moment was so depressing...
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