[How To] A guide to fixing vista issues.

This isn't a bad guide to have =)

One problem that I am currently experiencing on my Vista Laptop is pretty serious. Out of nowhere (*cough* randomly) MapleStory's graphics will l4g behind slightly, meaning anything I do for input happens on the game about .2 seconds later. The FPS also goes down a little bit. Identifying when this glitch happens can be anywhere between subtle to "in your face". Anyways, roughly 10-30 seconds later my computer will completely seize up and freeze indefinitely until I either do a hard reset or cut the power somehow. Not fun.
EDIT: this glitch is GMS v.65. It has never appeared before.

As of currently playing MS in windows mode vastly reduces the probability that the glitch will strike. I know of another player, a friend-because-of-class, who has this same issue. And Kasuhitomi has admitted to having this problem also.

My drivers are up to date, I've done defrags and whatnot, disabled Toshiba Flash Cards (lolwut duz dat du), and pretty much anything else I could think of.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF JEBUS THIS ISN'T FROM OVERHEATING!!!!!

Oh yeah, just in case you want the specs, my Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527. Pretty standard, not really meant for games and stuff xD

 Something else for shouri

When I was typing up my LOLPALLY guide for the guide-writing event, I saw how huge it was and thought to myself "What if sp.net went down the tanker?" I didn't believe I would re-write the whole entire thing after all the extraordinary effort and zeal I put into the guide. FFS, it takes 3 posts to display the whole guide, not including the massive abuse of BBC tags I've written (which caused the server to produce fatal errors when it was downgraded xD). Just for extra safety, I even saved all of the images and "pirated" other images that I've found over the internet, so even those were backed up onto my hard drives.

And look what happened to the sp.net database. I was so friggin' happy I saved all those images. It was literally hundreds of images.

So basically if something takes a long time to produce, write, compile, make, w/e, save a backup of it if you can! Never know when the unexpected will strike.