Minecraft mod installation

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This outlines just one way to mod minecraft as there are other ways as I am aware, this way worked for me and importantly applied the mod to all current game saves.

To install a mod for minecraft you need to have 3 things, minecraft installed on your machine, forge installed on your machine, and the downloaded mod file AND importantly all of these things have to be for the correct version of minecraft.

Minecraft game download here: https://minecraft.net/

Forge Download here: http://files.minecraftforge.net/ (please exercise caution here as there are many ways to download spyware if you are not careful)

Forge mods here: http://www.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/category/forge

So here is how I did it

  1. Went and found the desired mod first and worked out what version of minecraft (1.7.10, 1.8.1 etc) it was made to work with....and downloaded it.....took a note of the version.
  2. Installed the latest version of minecraft and then once logged in opened the launcher and clicked edit profile (bottom left corner) and changed the version of minecraft to the appropriate version that matched the mod.....and then started minecraft and then closed it.
  3. Installed Forge by double clicking the jar file.
  4. Ran minecraft again this time changing the profile (bottom left) for Forge....then closed minecraft.
  5. Moved mod jar file into the minecraft mods folder (in roaming %AppData% folder called .minecraft) 
  6. Ran minecraft under forge profile and the once in went to mods and checked that it was active.

This did the trick for me, however I had a few mod files that did not seem to work and a few false starts with the version of forge not being the right one.

One IMPORTANT point I will make is please make a copy of the users .minecraft folder in %AppData% before doing any of this as people are not going to be happy if you delete all of their saved games.

I hope that helps

 

 

iMac running slow

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I ran into a late model IMac running extremely slowly and discovered what was causing it....

Opened the activity monitor and sorted by memory use and found a program called installerT running that was using over 5gb of memory....force quit it but each time on startup it came back again.....

Showed info on the file and found its location and moved it to the trash and immediately eset recognised it as malware....

Recommendation on any machine like this.....start in safe mode (hold down shift when pushing power button) install eset, restart in normal mode and then find file associated with installerT and move to trash.

Post by email

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Atheros wireless adapters.

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If you are having a problem with one of these, check this site for the latest drivers and give it a go.  Report success or failure here please!

Qualcomm ATHEROS Wireless drivers for Windows

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Qualcomm ATHEROS WiFi and Wireless drivers for Microsoft Windows and AR1111 AR2427 AR5001A AR5001X AR5001X+ AR5002G AR5002X AR5004G AR5004X AR5005G AR5005GS AR5005UG AR5005UX AR5006 AR5006EG AR5006EGS 

Thunderbird IMAP

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I have had two different problems in the past couple of days trying to make this work.  Seems like there is a problem with this combination.

I know from personal experience that our method of setting up Yahoo users for IMAP works fine in most cases.  I use it on multiple platforms and, apart from the occasional glitch sending, it has worked OK for quite a while.

However, we set up a customer and had to use TBird as an IMAP client because there was different issue with WL Mail (which I would normally recommend) and it turned into a disaster.  I had to save the day by switching to POP which happened to be OK for this customer.

Next day I tried to change an Xtra mail customer who was already using TBird with POP to using IMAP so it would “sync” with her iPad.  It just did not work correctly - it looked fine at first but when I tried to demo deleting messages it went weird and deleted the wrong message!

So unless we find out what is going on here (and it would take some experimenting with an Xtra email account, TBird client and deleting messages) I want us to avoid using this combination at all costs.

I usually try to stick with standard MS products on any Windows platform as I believe they “should” work better….

Cheers