Showbox loading videos in default android player, not in VLC / MX player (android) FIX

Showbox, you may prefer to play the content in the VLC player app but Showbox sometimes loads the content in the android video player. 

You can always use a different player such as MX player.

To fix this issue, take the following steps:

NOTE: The steps provided below are for Android v6.0.1 (marshmallow). Other versions will have settings located in slightly different places. Please Google your android version for aid in locating certain settings mentioned.

Step1) Clear APP defaults:

On your android device go to Settings > Apps.

In here for each APP listed below, click on the APP, scroll down and click on "Open by default", then click on "clear defaults":

a. Gallery
b. Showbox
c. VLC player
d. Any other player you may have (such as MX player)

Step 2) Reboot your device after these settings

Step 3) Open Showbox, select the content you wish to play. On the quality selection popup (e.g. 360, 480, 720), click on the "3 dotted vertical line" (options) and make sure that the player selected is "OTHER PLAYER...". Server and subtitles can be set at your discretion.

Step 4) Play the content by selecting the quality as mentioned above (e.g. 360/480/720) and click on "Watch Now". When prompted with "Open with", select your player (in my case VLC) followed by "ALWAYS" in the bottom right of this popup window.

SUCCESS! All your content for Showbox should now play in your selected player.

Note: You may have to select the VLC > ALWAYS on more than one occasion. Annoying but at least it plays in my preferred player :)

ETS2 Recruitment Agency Locations List

My mate was asking me about a Euro Truck Sim 2 (ETS2) Recruitment Agency locations list and I couldn't find one; so here is a list from version 1.17 including Going East DLC only!

AUSTRIA

• Graz
• Innsbruck
• Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
• Linz
• Vienna
• Wien

BELGIUM / LUXEMBOURG / NETHERLANDS

• Brussels
• Groningen
• Luxembourg

CZECH REPUBLIC / SLOVAKIA

• Brno
• Kosice
• Ostrava
• Praha

ITALY

• Venezia

HUNGARY

• Budapest
• Debrecen

SWITZERLAND

• Geneva
• Zurich

FRANCE

• Calais
• Liege
• Lyon
• Metz
• Paris
• Reims

GERMANY

• Berlin
• Bremen
• Cologne
• Dortmund
• Dresden
• Frankfurt
• Hamburg
• Hannover
• Kassel
• Koln
• Leipzig
• Mannheim
• Munchen
• Stuttgart

POLAND

• Bialystok
• Gdansk
• Krakow
• Lodz
• Poznan
• Szczecin
• Warszawa

GREAT BRITAIN

• Aberdeen
• Birmingham
• Dover
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Liverpool
• London
• Manchester
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Plymouth
• Sheffield
• Southampton
• Swansea

Realtek ALC 1200 up to date driver (Any ALC HD Audio card)

Those of you looking for an up to date driver for your Realtek HD Audio card have come to the right place!

For some reason Realtek don't seem to list all the HD ALC Audio cards supported by their HD Driver that is released. For example I have the Asus P6T motherboard which has the Realtek ALC1200. Upon reading the latest HD Driver Readme file this is not listed as a supported driver; when in actual fact any Realtek ALC HD Audio cards are supported by their HD Driver!

So; if you have a ALC1200 (or other HD Audio card) then visit the link below for the latest Realtek HD Audio Driver:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

"unable to authenticate original disk within the time limit" SOLUTION Windows 7 x64 bit (PMDG 747 for FS9)

Today I was installing the PMDG 747 for FS9/FS2004, but I got the error "unable to authenticate original disk within the time limit".

SOLUTION

Do you have any other applications open that are possibly accessing the optical drive that your disk is in?

I bet you have.

In my case I was watching a DVD using Classic Media Player but I also had open Windows Explorer which was accessing the optical drive to show me files.

After closing both applications and clicking on "Try Again", the installation
continued and loaded fine. After starting I was able to resume the other applications and use them as normal.

So click on "Try Again" or by re-running the setup.exe (or autostart.exe) from the disk.

Hope this helped you as it had me confused for an hour.

Start Menu for Windows 8 and 8.1 (for those who miss the windows start menu)

For those who miss the old classic windows start menu here is a solution worth a download.

I recently was round at a friends house and saw that they had a start menu for windows 8!

If you hate the new Windows 8 start menu and miss the old classic start menu then here is a solution which is certainly worth downloading and installing!

http://www.classicshell.net/

Visit the link above to learn more.

A couple of alternates are ...

Start Menu 8 by IOBIT (the same people who developed the excellent smart defrag).

Pokki.