In the murky, wild world of Windows updates and retro gaming, few plot twists are as unexpected as a 20-year-old bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas suddenly rocketing a seaplane into galactic orbit, all thanks to the newly minted Windows 11 24H2 update.
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Just when you think you’ve seen every possible patch, update, and inexplicable Easter egg in the annals of gaming history, along comes Windows 11—specifically the freshly minted 24H2 update—to hurl a 20-year-old airplane, not just out of a game, but out of the galaxy. Not metaphorically, but...
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Just when you thought your only worry in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was surviving drive-bys and “all you had to do was follow the damn train,” a new nemesis emerges: the vanishing seaplane. It’s not a shadowy villain or a notorious bugbear from the depths of corrupted saved games, but the...
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You’d think that after two decades, the digital skies of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would hold no more surprises—but just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (or, rather, to try taking off from it), a bug as old as some Gen Zers themselves emerges, causing fans to wonder: are...
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The Classic Outlook Conundrum: Navigating CPU Spikes and Workarounds
Microsoft Outlook, a cornerstone of productivity for millions, has lately been the epicenter of a vexing technical dilemma. Users of the classic Outlook version have experienced troubling CPU spikes—sometimes soaring by as much...
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Ah, Internet Explorer. For those of us who remember its heyday, it's like running into an old friend from high school at a reunion—you’ve moved on, and so have they—or so you thought. Despite being officially retired in 2022 and completely removed from mainstream Windows operating systems in...
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We are calling a legacy VBA function in Access 2010 to try to read filed information about files saved to our SharePoint site. When this code is run in Access 2010 running on Windows XP the function identifies the file and indicates that the file...
The ARM version of Windows 8 might have just become the most desired version of Windows in our hearts and minds. After us talking about legacy code and backwards compatibility in Windows for years now, an Intel senior vice president, Renee James, has just stated that Windows 8 on ARM will not...