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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerI give up. I can’t figure out the 2nd or 3rd keys. Frustration has beaten me.
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerIf I remember right the battery is up inside the leg of the chair. Its dark so look carefully. I think it was on the right side of the chair. To read the note just click the X at the lower right of it in your items. This will open it up and then you can click on the actual note to open it and read it. I’m still stuck trying to open the 2nd key up. Translating the die to a 9 key pad is something I just cant seem to figure out. HELP!!! LOL
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerHow do you open the Swiss Army knife? I have it, but I can’t get the corkscrew out or get it to interact with any other object.
Just click the X in the circle on the bottom right of the knife icon at the bottom of the screen. That opens it in a window where you can click on it to change the blades.
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WSkixfan
AskWoody Lounger2 things:
I love suduko, but these puzzles (which remind me of Pajama sam and Myst) are totally open ended and I just get on the web to see how it all goes together. Is there a way to describe that type of mindset – working within a set of rules (suduko) is great, but click on this, grab that ’cause you might need it later, etc. just frustrates the hell out of me ?
and keeping that in mind, I got the steps to solve this from the 1st page of this thread. Thanks! But… how do you look behind the briefcase for the key!? I click on it, click and drag, etc. click above it to look down on it, etc. and can’t get it to do anything.
thank you!
I just clicked around it and it changed the view to a side view so I could see behind it.
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerI just can’t figure out key 2. How do I get a color code from the die when I can only see 3 sides? Am I missing something?? I got the numbers off the 3 sides I can see.
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerI found that page too. I have tried all the options except the final solution. I guess that’s my next step. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Thanks
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerCouldn’t get back into safe mode so tried to put xp on a different partition. It went well until it tried to reboot then it couldn’t load windows because it was missing a file called Hal.dll. How do I get that file back?
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerI’ll try that and report the BSOD error message here.
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WSkixfan
AskWoody LoungerI would recommend Truecrypt for this as well. If you explain the reason for needing it to your IT department they may just let you install it. After using it your data will appear as a generic file. Without the password you used to set it up it cannot be opened by anyone. I use it at home to hide stuff like tax returns and bank info from prying eyes. Hope this works out for you.
Dennis
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