#windows tutorials

[hackeocafe]

Secrets of Windows Notepad

There's a lot you probably didn't know about Notepad 🤔

[never-obsolete]

Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

[niidsch]

Barbie and the Three Musketeers ♥ 2009

[mysweetpianospace]

How I make gif stamps in GIMP!

Hi! So I thought I would make a tutorial on how I personally make my animated stamps in GIMP! With images to help!

Firstly, have your stamp base, I use old stamp templates I found or from my own stamps. Then you want to add your gif as a layer.

Once you've opened it as a layer, all the gif layers will appear! You want to first resize the background layer by scaling the layer.

This stamp has an interior width and height of 95x50 pixels, so I make sure to scale the layer to fit. Make sure width and height aren't linked because not all gifs will fit that size naturally.

Then it is very important to merge the background layer with the stamp template layer, this way when you make the gif it looks like a stamp!

Once that's done scale all your other layers to the same width and height so that they too will fit in the stamp! Then what you want to do once that is finished is to open filter > animation > optimise (for gif).

Then once you've done that you can click playback to see if the gif is all right!

Once that's done it is time to export it by going export as, now I always have to change my file to a .gif type in order for it to work. Once you've done that hit export.

Then it will show a pop up window, it is very important you hit check on animation! Otherwise it won't work!

Once that is done, you can now hit the final export and your gif stamp will be made! See my final product below!

[belladovah]

A Complete Guide on how to Fix & Optimize The Sims 2 on Windows 10/11

I've made a video tutorial and written guide on everything you need to know on how to Fix & Optimize The Sims 2 on Windows 10/11, with Performance, Stability, and Graphics Enhancements.

Watch the Video Tutorial on YouTube:

Read the Written Guide on my Website

[felidae-sims]

Game Fuckery Help and Linux List [Update].

I'm avoiding re-installing this shit again, so in the meantime I'm sorting some stuff into lists. For Linux research purposes.

Edit: Standby Memory Allocation on Windows 10: New info coming in: That's not the issue. However, what i wrote below about TM is my own experience and has worked for me (without doing what Jessa was saying in the SB memory part, I remembered, hope I didn't waste anybody's time). Does it make sense? idk, but it's harmless, and if it's actually a thing and not just a freak coincidence, and can help anybody else then why not. I do remember trying it with and without cleaning cache :/ [for fuck sake the nerve on EA to put out for sale a new edition without improving it to 64bit]. As discussed by Jessa below, it's an OS problem. What worked for me, for some bizarre reason was to keep Task Manager on before and while playing the game. without it my game was crashing often, on my main non gaming computer. What solved it was fixing windows... for anyone's interested, the gory details are at the bottom of the post under the cut.

+ That combined with clearing cache often.

Jessa's video (Memory Allocation and 4GB Patch Repair). Edit: Turns out this video was pulled back, so basically just make sure the patch is applied?

1. Secound opinion on the whole matter by BrandiNotBroke [the whole #pink flash diaries tag is interesting]:

2. Leefish forum - Sims2 Graphic Cards:

3. @celebkiriedhel's Post (Texture Memory):

Linux:

@teaaddictyt & @niamh-sims About Linux.

2. @nonsensical-pixels about Linux.

3. @brandinotbroke, first Linux supporter I've encountered here. A comprehensive post:

4. @grilledcheese-aspiration, Transferring software and such from Windows to Linuxs:

Texture Memory Fuckery (Pink Soup, among other things):

Kiri's post linked at the beginning, first an foremost.

Original Post by @fireflowersims, plus; re-blog by @ovytia. Both of their tags, and comment:

2. A recap on Pink Soup/Texture Sizes by @rockethorse in the comments:

That's it for now. Any more information or good links will be welcome.

Task Manager thing briefly, for the curious (as if it interests anyone else but me, but in the interest of keeping track).

So the game was crashing often. That thing was easy to spot because the laptop would make loud airplane noises when I'd load the game. It got stuck or something, so I went to end it by force with task manager and noticed that all the resources where used to the max - right up until I'd open TM, and then everything would cool down. Like it was playing hide and seek with me. So I figured I'd get smart with it right back, and just leave TM open the whole time. Low and behold, the game stopped crashing. That combined with clearing cache often. Does it make sense? idk, but the computer works in mysterious ways.

[magpie-trinkets]

How do you "bookmark" posts on Tumblr?

Bookmark as in, saving a post in a place that you can easily access later in case you want/need to look at it. Posts like resources, references, links, tutorials (to name a few)... Anything you might want to save for later.

I am curious! I personally reblog them into the Drafts but I'm aware people do it differently.

[roseofmaygreece]

Four more squares left and my wall tapestry is finished!! The pattern is Stained Glass Pentagram Granny Square

[lemons-pears]

run number i don't even know of dead rails.

that's actually so puny, uhm so basically...

i thought i drove far away enough from the werewolves to disembark the train to loot the sheriff. i had an elephant rifle and a shotgun. and $145. rip bozo. anyways silly run highlights under the cut because there's a lot-

saw this thing. went "ooo- imma loot it :]"

walked up to it all ":DDD yippee new structure and it's at like... 10km? 20km? yippeeeee" [dio's holy diver starts playing. or like... megadeth's black swan... idk my metal bands but oh my days.]

h. literally it started playing like 80s heavy metal out of nowhere and these fellas started coming out. turret boys dealt with them. and every time one group got gunned down i went back to the prison with my stolen rifle all :DDDD and proceed to get chased down again like some scooby doo sequence. decided against going in. because this was wayy too early in the run for me to deal with. and what if it's like a random boss battle in there that i don't know about.

afterwards i found the same goth horse as last run with my friends! kinda crispy looking. looks like a smore - i don't think i can give father dead rails a goth horse but this feels like the type of goth horse that would give him sunburns. AND IT WASN'T DEAD IN FIVE MINUTES AFTER I PLUNDERED IT! who are naming these guys cos they should come with their own music like damnn

also made my enemies kinda crispy. scarily edible. but my human body shields were kinda done for.

i was doing this run listening to chris chan: a comprehensive history. so i was kinda camping out at one of the safe zones for a bit. LOOK AT THAT INVENTORY IT WAS STACKEDDD.

what a run with no metal sheets does to someone: ANYWAYS I THINK I NEED TO LOOK UP LIKE GOOD WAYS TO SET UP THIS TRAIN BECAUSE I'VE BEEN STACKING TRASH ON IT AND IT WORKS 7/10 TIMES. and then kills me in a werewolf encounter because i can't do the little parkour jumping accurate enough and i topple off the side like some silent film character.

[definitelynotshouting]

girls (gender neutral) when they decide to get a little sillay with texturing

[riftclaw]

Do you have any tips for postybirb? I downloaded it hoping to use it for tumblr and bsky but the tutorials they have aren’t up to date for the latest version so I don’t know how to post my art. Thanks!

hey, sorry this is late--i just moved into a new place, and the last week or so has been very hectic!

to get started with postybirb (i'm on 3.1.60) the first thing you want to do is click "accounts" and start logging into the accounts you want to use. some will just be logins, using postybirb as a browser, while others will ask for app access tokens (dA i think is one of the latter). once those accounts are logged in, the headers will turn green and they'll be moved to the bottom of the list.

some logins will time out periodically, and you'll need to re-login occasionally. not too difficult

when it's time to post a submission, click "Submissions" > "File" and either double click to open the browser or just drag your image in. this will add the image to a list below the upload box

The red ! symbol is letting you know you need to add some information before it can be posted to one of your sites. Click on Edit in this list to open the submission proper.

Now you fill in your information--title, rating, tags, description. Same as you would posting to tumblr or dA normally. Rating is necessary, and so is a website to post to (haha).

click on the Websites box beneath the description, and a list of all your currently active accounts will pop up. click on the boxes to enable them

Once you've done this, the account will be added to a list below the Websites box. Postybirb will warn you if you need to change any information on a site by site basis. For tumblr and dA, you shouldn't need to change anything.

Once everything's set up, you can click "Post" to send it live right away, or "Save and Close" to save the post to post later.

Save and Close is the option you want to use if you want to queue posts, much like the tumblr scheduling option.

Click on the text that says "unscheduled" and pick a date and time, save it, then the "Schedule" option will become clickable and you can add the piece to your queue.

And i think that might be all the basics you need to know to start using the program! let me know if you have any other questions

[never-obsolete]

Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

[lordcrumps]

Mini-tutorial - Window Wall Masks Made Easy

I could not send this to someone's DMs, so I thought I would post here!

This is purely to show how easy wall masks can be made! It assumes that you know how to do basic editing in a photo editor, I prefer to use paint.net as its simple!

[godofthestupid]

I tried out something new with the backround!

it's still somewhat shitty 'cus I wanted to get this out fast and just test out the idea,but I like it quite a lot and will try it more often

[fruitiermetrostation]

How To Add Programs To Your Startup On Windows Vista, 7 & 8

[trashedpolar]

im already overthinking stuff in that deltarune trailer. that "string" minigame thingy had pink and yellow. is anyone listening. hello.