Erik

On behalf of all of us behind the scenes. There's more than just me that makes this place work, but thank you for the thoughts they are greatly appreciated. If anyone ever knew just what it took to keep this place moving, they'd be astonished. We hope you all enjoy and remain active in our community. The CombatACE Team

My team was the Indy all the way ... but I feared with the weather in Florida that Chi-town was going to be unbeatable on the ground. Manning proved them wrong and the Bears were just out classed on the field. In retro-spec I wish the game had been a better match up, but it was still a good close to the season. I wasn't impressed with Pepsi's half time show, but that Caddy they presented Peyton for MVP is a tight ride. Well here's looking at SB-XLII. As my friend Fates so aptly quoted the immortals ... there can be only one. Night all ...

I'd think something like DuPonts Teflon Multi-Use Lubricant or Teflon White Lithium Grease would work. I'd check your local Repco or auto parts store for a lubricant that will work. Just some thoughts.

Looks like you won't have to, it appears the site has finally caught up with your upgrades. Take care; Erik

restart your computer, then rename the folder, then do the clean install

The uninstall feature will remove default files and directories. If there are files in those directories that the installation didn't put there (read: mods, aircraft, terrain, etc) it leaves those files and their parent directory(s). I'd run the uninstall program > then find the directories that are left behind > rename them or move them to the desktop or my documents folder. Once complete you can run a clean install and all the old files you no longer want won't be there and you should be back to stock settings, files, directories. Of course someone more knowledgeable about the game platform can probably help on specifics, but in general this is how an installation / uninstall works. **Note I suggested renaming the directories or moving them, not deleting them. This way you always retain the data for re-use or to put back if needed. File management is always the owners responsibility.** Hope this helps.

Yes, in the third screen of the backup wizard there's an option that says "Let me choose what to backup", select that option and you'll get a directory listing of your machine, drill down to the directories you want and select them. This will allow you to preserve the directory structure as you want, but will not save any registry settings. You can opt to export your registry or just select keys however if you want to get that indepth depending on your needs. The "restore" tool offered in windows also handles registry which may be an option for you. I suppose it all depends on what you want to back up but there are many options OEM and after-market for your needs. I'd google some "making backups on winxp" and see what you come up with, there are many folks who are smarter than me out there. Hope that helps. Erik

Have you tried the back up tool in windows? Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup ... there's an option in the back-up tool to allow you to select what you want to backup. This backup feature also allows you to restore from the media you backup with.

... and because you earned the posting freak rank you in turn earned the elite member status which has a lot of benefits that regular members don't have. When we put these new features into affect a couple weeks ago everyone was essentially the same member type "member" (aka "new member" now) but we had "members" with pips for rank like "posting freak". Problem was we couldn't give features based on the rank achieved, as they would only function with member status, so we made the change. Your participation now means something more than just a few pips and a snazzy rank title. The confusing part is the actual promotion process the site automates. A status promotion takes a full 24 hours and requires one post per 24 hours. So since everyone started off at the first level "new member" for our "elite members" it would take 5 days with 1 post per day from them to get them promoted correctly to their new status like Nesher. Because there are many different variables tied to the new status changes it's best to let the site handle them so post a couple more days and you'll be all fixed up.

Fixed.

Please read my above post. You can change your display name in your My Controls area. The help section should help you do this. Thanks; Erik

Also you should be able to do this yourself in your "My Controls" area. Please read the help section here about changing personal information: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?act=H...DE=01&HID=4 Thanks; Erik

I respond to all the emails I get and did not get one from you David ... but yeah send it to Fates. LOL Erik

Just curious why you you're using Get Right?

I'd have them call their ISP and see if they can resolve the DNS issues locally. I've checked our end and routed back to the site through 43 third party routers from around the world and none of them fail, even the two in Sweden. Erik

Check your security settings in your virus scanner or firewall. Nortens and McAfee are notorius for being the culprit. Beyond that there's no explanation I can offer why your home machine doesn't work.

ANNOUNCEMENT January 12, 2007 New Download Requirements In an effort to help strengthen our community we are now requiring a minimum of 5 posts in our forums for members to gain download permission. We want everyone to be involved in our community and we can't think of a better way to get you involved. Members who contribute to our community are how we stay healthy, and we need your support to help us do what we do best, provide a great community and unlimited downloads. If you receive the following message, "You do not have enough posts to download files yet." this means you haven't met the 5 post requirement. Post, download and have fun, that's our goal.

I'd take responsibility for the problems ... but it was more than likely the average of 50 - 60 Gigs of Downloads that are happening per day that is more likely the cause. Should be all fixed now ... sorry about the trouble. Erik

The Pats are my team to heck with the arguments, Fates got my back right? LOL It's going to be a good game either way.

January 21, 2007 Hi - I removed the 5 post minimum requirement so that all members can now download from our site even with zero posts. That happened last week as I posted about it earlier in this thread. Hopefully that will make things easier for everyone and clear some things up. Above I have placed a new poll into action. With the recent site move it would be helpful to get an idea of our performance. Your help would be greatly appreciated in letting me know how we're doing. Also there are some new benefits to members. I won't go into detail but they should make all of you quite happy. Access to your features will become apparent as you use this site. You will be automatically upgraded as you post during normal daily use of the boards. It may take a few posts to get all your upgrades in place as they're done one at a time, and some of you won't upgrade at all depending on your activity level. There may be more details to come but it will have to be when I'm not so completely exhausted. Enjoy the new stuff it's here for you. Tell your friends and lets make our home "the place to be". Oh yeah don't forget to vote in the above poll. Take care everyone; Erik Thompson CombatACE.com

That's a DNS Migration issue. A side affect of having moved the site and changing our IP address where the site resides. When this happens we actually request a repopulation of our IP through the name servers of the world. That process is spotty and strange at times especially with routers and gateways in the millions. For you specifically if your Internet Service Provider uses different machines to host name servers then one of them might not just be updated yet. Or you possibly have your browser set up to cache pages which are referring to our old site. Check your browser settings, clear your browser cache, and reboot. If the problem still exists it's because your ISP's name servers aren't all up to date. The good news is that they will update, as this process generally settles down in about 72 hours. Which for us will be tomorrow or possibly monday depending on when I actually submitted our name servers. It was late and I was tired I remember that much. If this problem continues past Monday be sure to let me know and I'll put in a trouble ticket to our upstream provider. Erik

Wouldn't care if the model had no wings. It's great to see contributions from the A-Team. Nice Job! ps - it has nice wings

NO, It does not mean that at all. Sounds like a browser and cookie setting issue to me. What browser are you using? Do you allow cookies from our site. I'd recommend FireFox and allowing us to set cookies, or you won't be able to stay logged in for more than one page without cookies. Regards; Erik

If you're trying to download a file why would you be clicking an "upload" button? I'm confused. Let me know.

Please read the following knowing that my intention and thoughts are always about the membership, the community, and its collective health. Also please understand my reluctance in responding to this thread further. A big THANK YOU to all the supporters and folks who can see that a community like this takes more than just people who join and call themselves members so they have access to free "everything". To all the others here are my closing thoughts. --- I've re-read all my posts and can't find anywhere I said anything about or eluded to money. I simply can't find those references. What I did say is: The site benefits from a member's activity. Each post that is made and is picked up by a search engine like google makes us stronger on the net. As our knowledge base grows from members questions and interaction so does the strength of our site. A community that interacts and plays together is stronger more vibrant and fluid. The more our site gains interest and popularity the more we're willing to support it through faster downloads, more downloads, more features. etc. Modders are more likely to interact and participate in a site that is active and shows professional support for their endeavors. We've begged folks to get involved with give-aways, contests, and the like with little activity to show for it. We ask for something from the membership and they complain, say it's stupid, and overall let us know we're foolish. When our membership asked for a better, faster, cleaner place I can't remember us calling them idiots. Members that participate in our community should be rewarded with access and features. Members that don't should be restricted from full use of our resources. It's a give and take relationship. There's much much more that goes along with the big picture than just the above. I'm also confident that each of you reading this can understand why I even care enough to be bothered with seeking support for such ideas. If you folks can't or won't see it because 5 posts is way too much to ask for, then you'll just have to live with the outcome. I've removed the 5 post minimum. Our next moderation won't be announced and you won't have a voice in the decision. Before today many of you never had a voice anyway so I'm sure it won't matter. If you're one of the "active" members in our community I applaud you and give you the green light ops go on all those that would otherwise take that away from you. I'm deeply saddened by the "use it loose it" view point shared in all this. I suppose it was a good learning experience and not a total loss. Here's wishing you all the best. Erik Thompson CombatACE.com