I bought a Nintendo Wii, a Japanese Wii, also bought a a few games, one of them Wild Earth, African Safari. I don’t understand japanese, so when i played Wild Earth, i didn’t know the game installed installed firmware from its disc. Wild Earth is an US Version game. I didn’t know the installation cause conflict later on. A few days later, i explored Wii and found my Wii number, hit a wrong button (REGISTER) on screen, an Opera error appeared. I thought it was connection problem. I went to Wii Settings, and saw an Opera error as well. Fortunate for me, the error was Semi-Brick. I can play games, other Wii functions still work.
What is Wii Semi-Brick?. Guys from hackmii.com explain it, the result of installing updated System Menus from discs that came from other regions. Semi-brick displays an Opera error message, allows you to boot the system to the main menu, and play games, etc. However, you can’t get into the Settings menu (to enable WiFi, update the software, etc), because when you do, you are presented an Opera error message. You can read their explanation here
Hackmii find a way to fix Wii Semi-brick, launch their hack. The fix is simple. Download the latest version of the system menu for your Wii Region. Mine is a Japanese Wii, i just downloaded JAP (number 1 file). Extract file, it’s a RAR file. You’ll see ISO (an image file). Prepare DVD-R disc. I use GT-PRO DVD-R disc. Burn an image file to DVD Disc using Nero Express (Most people on Hackmii suggested imgburn), Speed 4x.
Insert DVD-R disc into Wii, hit Disc Menu on screen (top left) then follow the instructions.
My Wii settings is back !
I want to thank you to Hackmii for fixing my Wii Semi-Brick!
I use Scheduled Tasks to Shutdown Windows XP after download files from the internet. Yeah, i must leave my computer on to finish my download sometimes, but i also want to shutdown the computer after download.
Windows XP is using shutdown.exe, an external command availabel in Windows XP. The command enables a user to shutdown a Windows XP computer from the command line as well as perform additional features that are not available through Windows.
I’ll give you shutdown.exe syntax, you can use these syntax later on Scheduled Task
Usage shutdown.exe [-i | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-t xx] [-c "comment"]
-i = Display GUI Interface, mut be the first option
-s = Shutdown the computer
-r = Shutdown and restart the computer
-a = Abort a system shutdown
-t xx = Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c “comment” = Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f = Forces running applications to close without warning
Note : Shutdown Windows XP using Scheduled Tasks works on Windows XP Professional SP2 and SP3
STEPS
- Click Start, then click Control Panel
- Click Performance and Maintenance, the click Scheduled Tasks
- Double Click Add Scheduled Task. The Scheduled Task Wizard starts
- Click Next
- Under Click the program you want Windows to run, click Browse
- In the Select Program to Schedule dialog box, locate your Windows directory (%SystemRoot) \ System32 folder, locate and click the Shutdown.exe file, then click Open
- Under Perform this task, specify a name for the task and how frequently you want this task to run, then click Next
- Under Select the time and day you want this task to start, specify a start time and date for the task, then click Next
- Type the user name and password to run this task under, then click Next
- Click to select the Open advanced propertoes for this task when I click Finish check box, then click Finish
- Click the Task tab
- In the Run box, specify any additional paramaters that you want to use with Shutdown.exe (look for the Syntax above)
- Click OK
Lorelle wrote down an article on how to access banned WordPress.com with various ways, client side proxy software, online web proxy bypass sites, a peer to peer CDN, TOR. I think we can use resources in the article to access other banned sites as well
One of the readers gave me a comment about style problem on Windows XP SP.
I got that problem too :-). Style is missing from display > appearance.
The problem come from UX Theme. You need to get new version of UX Theme, which is compatible with Service Pack 3 to fix the problem.
Download new version of UX Theme from this page. Run the update after you updates Windows XP (which is already have Apple Style) . Follow the instruction here. I suggest you to download and use Replacer.
Replacer help you replace or delete a system file with ease.
What if i have Windows XP SP3 and want to style my desktop from scratch?
Download new version of UX theme from above link, then follow instruction in A Guide to Style A Windows XP Desktop look-alike Mac OS X Leopard.
