View Thread : %^$^%$ Microgaming and ^%$^% Microsoft


GrandMaster
I have just wasted a couple of hours of my life thanks to MG and MS. I tried to boot my computer into XP and it failed with the error message about insufficient system resources, it would not even boot into safe mode. I booted into Linux and it worked fine, so I knew it was not a hardware problem, and searched for the error message. I found that one of the possible reasons is low disk space, so I looked and I found that my c: drive was full and the culprit was Microgaming, with a 2.5GB cache folder. This is where the fun began, I needed to find a way to delete it, as my c: drive is NTFS, which is not supported by Linux by default. I tried booting with various Linux live CDs because I remembered that I used one of them successfully to delete some files that Windows refused to delete. No such like this time, and I ended up recompiling the Linux kernel to include NTFS support, deleted all the crud in the MG cache folder and the casinos. After this I was able to boot into XP and to reinstall the casinos, and everything is fine, but somebody without Linux could have ended up with reinstalling the whole OS from scratch.

I am very annoyed at MG for filling up my disk with files for slots I will never play, and for MS for selling an operating system that lets MG do this instead of telling it "Stop it buddy, I need that space for booting up".

eek
boot to DOS.

You can wipe out ANYTHING with dos.

It's also great for opening files in text mode, it doesn't ever ask you why you want to open an executable or a .dll as a text file.

bam, and its open/deleted.

GrandMaster
2 problems: starting with Windows2000, Windows operating systems are not built on top of DOS, and DOS will only handle FAT file systems by defualt. You can buy an extension to DOS that will handle NTFS.