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Post by Sniffles on May 6, 2020 0:42:39 GMT
Dumb. dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
OKAY! Create D:Morrowind. No prob. Move all the contents of the Morrowind folder to D:\Morrowind then MKLINK /J "C:\Program Files (X86)\Bethseda Softworks\Morrowind" D:\Morrowind and start up the game. Works like a charm! No issues whatever! Yeay team!! . . . wtf? . . . . oh.
D: is the old overstuffed storage drive. E: is the second SSD.
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Post by jgf on May 6, 2020 0:59:55 GMT
Lol, that sounds like the kind of thing I would do. (Once spent an hour tearing down my computer to upgrade the CPU and add a fancy CPU cooler; got everything back together, fired up the system and it worked fine ....then I looked over and saw the new CPU still sitting in its box.)
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Post by Sniffles on May 6, 2020 1:48:49 GMT
Now I've got a problem. I can't delete Morrowind Launcher-> The file is open by a program. Close the program and try again. How do I find the program? Is it Nexus Mod Manager. I have no programs open.
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Post by jgf on May 6, 2020 2:57:48 GMT
Restart windows then delete the file; or right-click and take ownership then delete. If that doesn't work, try "Unlocker" - www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/ ; I've used this for years when windows wouldn't let me move, rename, or delete something ...it's like giving windows the finger.
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Post by Sniffles on May 6, 2020 8:42:05 GMT
Nope nope nope. C:\Program Files (x86) is locked. Security restricted. Access denied. I've tried everything I could find about this on the web. There are even several fixes from Microsoft about this problem, none of which work. It's something about the x86 files that 64 bit operating system restrict. My 64 bit Win 7 won't allow the security settings on the folders that the OS install created to be changed. Weird.
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Post by blockhead on May 6, 2020 12:25:41 GMT
Nope nope nope. C:\Program Files (x86) is locked. Security restricted. Access denied. I've tried everything I could find about this on the web. There are even several fixes from Microsoft about this problem, none of which work. It's something about the x86 files that 64 bit operating system restrict. My 64 bit Win 7 won't allow the security settings on the folders that the OS install created to be changed. Weird. There is a way around this but (a) it is a bit finicky & complicated and (b) really easy to make things worse than they already are. Oh, and (c) try to imagine complete destruction of all data on your hard drives and a machine that refuses to boot no way no how. We're talking nepalm in the jungle, nuclear war, yellowstone exploding, crossing the streams, all in your computer. Because of this I hesitate to mention it and I think would seek other methods before trying this one. That said: Get a Linux live CD. It will be an ISO file that you download and then burn to a CD.
Which one? There are many and the holy wars as to which distro is best are a nightmare to wade through. That said, System Rescue CD is one that I have used on occasion.
How do you burn an ISO in Windows? It's been so long that I had no idea. Like anything else in windows, it will be a fight and will involve trying to find, install, and run 3rd-party software.
Some live CDs can instead be put on a USB stick and you can boot off of that. Since come newer computers might not have a CD/DVD at all, you may have to do it this way.
Once booted in the Linux Live CD, mount the windows drive(s) in question and delete/move without restrictions. Which is the point of using the live CD: to get outside of windows to get around the stupid arbitrary restrictions of Windows.
However, file management in Linux is different than in windows. The commands are different. Easy to screw things up ... and of course, as is always in Linux, there are fifteen different ways to do it and if one were to ask which way ... holy war ensues.
Boot said live CD. Find the file or directory you wish to delete or move. Delete it or move it. Nothing will stop you.
If all has gone well (eep!) you tell the live CD (or USB stick) to shut down. Remove said stick. Turn your machine on. Boot into windows as usual. Put the live CD someplace safe for the next time you'll need it.
As stated before: you can do huge amounts of damage. Because you have never used Linux (or any other Unix?) before, this is your last resort.
p.s. Yes, I have left out details. this is less a how-to and more a yes-you-can-do-it-but-here-is-why-maybe-you-should-not-do-it.
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Post by Sniffles on May 6, 2020 13:20:35 GMT
Nope nope nope. C:\Program Files (x86) is locked. Security restricted. Access denied. I've tried everything I could find about this on the web. There are even several fixes from Microsoft about this problem, none of which work. It's something about the x86 files that 64 bit operating system restrict. My 64 bit Win 7 won't allow the security settings on the folders that the OS install created to be changed. Weird. There is a way around this but (a) it is a bit finicky & complicated and (b) really easy to make things worse than they already are. Oh, and (c) try to imagine complete destruction of all data on your hard drives and a machine that refuses to boot no way no how. We're talking nepalm in the jungle, nuclear war, yellowstone exploding, crossing the streams, all in your computer. That was an option with warnings I read about an hour ago. Also something Techy warned me about several times long ago.
I think the best possible move is to uninstall Morrowind without deleting the extra files, then reinstall it in it's own folder that I have permissions for. And never ever install anything ever again in those locked system installed folders. Easy way to tell which folders they are by just left mouse click on them and see if Rename is one of the options.
I've also written Techy and asked him WTF is going on with those forbidden folders. And I just got his reply: "Certain folders and settings are coupled to registry entries which in turn are part of the Windows hard code. Abandon all hope, ye who trespass those hallowed halls. Do a search in regedit for program files (x86) or any of the other locked folders. You will find hundreds of instances. Alter a folder improperly and you just blew up the registry."
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Post by jgf on May 6, 2020 15:06:24 GMT
FWIW, a program like ImgBurn will properly burn a disc from an ISO file.
And this conversation is perfect proof of why never to install in the default Program Files locations; though 64 bit OS complicates this.
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Post by Aatrnasyn on May 6, 2020 16:12:07 GMT
Sniffles, you wrote "43°25'02.7"N 109°15'17.2"W <- Find her truck!". I tried my best, no luck! This gives Where's Waldo a run for his money, for sure.
Why do you need to delete Morrowind launcher?
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Post by Sniffles on May 6, 2020 22:53:59 GMT
FWIW, a program like ImgBurn will properly burn a disc from an ISO file. And this conversation is perfect proof of why never to install in the default Program Files locations; though 64 bit OS complicates this.
@aatrnasyn "Sniffles, you wrote "43°25'02.7"N 109°15'17.2"W <- Find her truck!". I tried my best, no luck! This gives Where's Waldo a run for his money, for sure. Why do you need to delete Morrowind launcher?"
Launcher. Honestly, I've forgotten why.
I'm sorry, Google map screw up. Correct location is 43°36'01.2"N 109°15'08.8"W It's right at 2.5 miles NNE of Crow Mtn. on Buck Creek road/loop. Watch out for our neighbors. They run a drug factory and tend to shoot at visitors.
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Post by Aatrnasyn on May 7, 2020 11:43:56 GMT
Did you knock down all those trees during your wild ride?
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Post by Sniffles on May 7, 2020 21:57:13 GMT
Did you knock down all those trees during your wild ride? It's another world, isn't it? What you are seeing is the natural world encroached upon by a road and satellite pictures but otherwise what was there 100 years ago, 500, 1000 and beyond. Natural habitat, our mother, wičháhuŋku. Scientifically, up at 7000 feet and extremely low humidity where we get more snow than rain the soil has less than 1% of the bio-activity of a tropical rain forest. Some of those trees have been there around 300 years or more. Old age, windfalls, lightning strikes whatever, they belong only to wičháhuŋku and are sacred.
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Post by blockhead on May 8, 2020 12:58:35 GMT
I googled (well, duckduckgo) the coordinates. Zoomed out and saw the great lakes? Is that right or are my web search skills bad?
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Post by Aatrnasyn on May 8, 2020 13:07:15 GMT
Your right only if the Great Lakes have migrated to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming
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Post by blockhead on May 8, 2020 13:15:56 GMT
Your right only if the Great Lakes have migrated to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming Guess I zoomed out a bit much. For some reason I was expecting Thailand because I though Sniffles & Squishy lived there?
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