http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Brickshooter Egypt Help en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:19:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-56186 Wed, 06 May 2009 19:04:20 +0000 Buzz 56186@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That's why regular sys backups are vital. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-56141 Tue, 05 May 2009 12:55:52 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 56141@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thinngs always have way of turning around Aprilfool. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55893 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:27:28 +0000 midori 55893@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Lol, watcher13... I'm sure I would've done the same thing: look for a way to "fix" it before I thought of a system restore. But you did that part for me! Plus, I just got rid of a nasty download that insisted on sticking around by doing a restore, but I tried other things first. ;) Just hope it works for Aprilfool. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55892 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:33:24 +0000 watcher13 55892@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yeah, except I forgot the first step - the system restore. Fortunately, midori had her head on straight. Although, since you said you'd tried almost everything, I suspect you also tried that early on. My bad. Don't know what I was thinking (gives himself mock slap on forehead). In any case, sorry about your luck with the game. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55879 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:25:05 +0000 midori 55879@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Aprilfool... that's one of my favorite games of all time, so I can emphathize. Honestly, I've played it every single day for over a year as my "wake-up" game with a cup of tea.</p> <p>My suggestion is to do a System Restore back to the day before you lost it. On my computer (Dell XP), I go to Help and Support after clicking Start, and you'll see System Restore there. It'll open to a calendar of restore points, and you can pick the one before you lost your game. It won't let you lose anything else, if you've never done one before. I've done it to retrieve many a "lost" file, or after I've made a change I didn't want. Let me know if that works for you.<br /> midori </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55876 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:14:13 +0000 Aprilfool 55876@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Watcher13</p> <p>Thanks for all of the good advice. I had tried everything but the SFC and have now done that with no luck. :(<br /> Maybe I'll get lucky and they will give the game away again some day.</p> <p>Thanks again. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55691 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:07:37 +0000 watcher13 55691@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I sympathize, Aprilfool. Though I've played it online, I don't have it, so I don't know how much help I can be. I used the search function above to search your problem and I can't find anyone else here whose had that particular problem with BrickShooter, and a web search didn't find it either. Some general suggestions: you may be aware that the "Windows is searching for a solution to the problem" notice means that "Windows Problem Reports and Solutions" was activated by this error. For my money, it's practically worseless. Microsoft usually doesn't have a clue for most of these problems - my belief is that they've made Windows so complex there starting to lose what little handle they had on it in the first place. I think that's evidenced when a search on the Micoroft Knowledge Base doesn't show answers for dozens or even hundreds of problems Windows will notify you about. But it still may be worth checking out. If you haven't accessed Problem Reports and Solutions, it's in the Control Panel. It will give you all the error codes and sometimes identifies the at fault module. You might try the bucket ID code, which is supposed to get a search hit from MS, but rarely does. Sometimes Problem Report will dump information into a temporary error file or two, which the report will have a link to. Many of these are useless, but.... You might also try Event Viewer, which keeps track of practically all the Event Logs Windows generates. One way to access Event Viewer is under Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.</p> <p>Sounds like either something got corrupted or maybe something wormed it's way into your system overnight. Might be worth doing your virus/malware full scans. Also I'd run chkdsk and System File Checker to try and find and fix any corruption. If you haven't used SFC, it's a tool from Windows 98 that MS hid in the current versions but is still in there for the IT Pros. It checks the integrity of all your system files and replaces any bad one it finds, unless the files locked. Then it will notify that it couldn't fix everything. If you're running anything earlier than Vista, you may need your install disks because that's where the replacement files are stored. In Vista, all the files are already on your hard drive. If it was me, I'd run either chkdsk or the virus scans first. If it works one day and not the next, I'd suspect corrpution first, virus 2nd. Some people would also say clean your browser cache, but I don't see why there'd be any connection for an installed game, so that's a longshot at best.</p> <p>If you don't have any luck, Luke1000 posted this for someone else who had a different BrickShooter problem a couple weeks ago as a consolation:</p> <p>"JBrickShooter is a nice freeware version of this game. Although it isn't much graphics wise, its game play is still the same. Also check out its arcade mode with powerups.</p> <p>For Ubuntu: &lt; a href "http://www.getdeb.net/app/JBrickShooter"&gt;(If you don't know what Ubuntu is then you don't want this)<br /> For any Java compatible OS: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jbrickshooter/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/jbrickshooter/</a> "</p> <p>Hopefully somebody here will have specific experience with this problem, but I have a feeling you're on your own. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5226#post-55669 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:31:03 +0000 Aprilfool 55669@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>One of my favorite games that I have gotten from this site is Brickshooter Egypt. I have played it over and over and over again.</p> <p>I was playing it last night and had just started the last level. It was bedtime and so I exited the game and shut down my computer normally.</p> <p>Today I tried to open the game and all I get is "Brickshooter Egypt has stopped working" "Windows is checking for a solution to the problem."</p> <p>I have rebooted the computer and that did not help. I do not have the original install file and don't think it would work anyway since it would not let me activate now.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to fix this? I really hate to lose this game.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Shelley </p>