Hear ye, hear ye, gather around for the second technical sermon by The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, nowadays a.k.a. The Sublime TechMaster General of All Things concerning SecondLife.
So quoth the laird:
You've been in SecondLife a good while now and have most likely gone through loads of viewer updates or even changed viewers a couple of times. All the while you have been fiddling about and messing around with your viewer settings until you have completely forgotten what you did, where you did it or even why you did it.
You probably think - like I did - that every time you uninstall a viewer and install a new one it´s a virginal and completely fresh install. Well, the thing is it isn't a fresh installation at all because all your fiddling about and messing around with the previous viewers have been saved on your computer.
To get a fresh installation this is what you must do in Windows. All of those who belong to "The Holy Sect of Mac", sometimes also known as "The Latter Day Church of Job" must find your own way.
1. Uninstall your viewer (this is best done from the Control Panel - Uninstall a program).
2. Click on the Start-button in the lower left corner of your screen (see symbol). When you click the Start-button a menu appears with a search field at the bottom.
3. in the search field type %appdata%.
4. Press enter. After you have pressed enter a new menu appears over the Start-button which contains a folder named "Roaming"
5. Click on the Roaming folder. When you do that a box appears containing loads of different folders.
6 a. Look for and delete the folder named "Second Life" or the name of the viewer you were using.
6 b. While you are at it you might as well also look for and delete any folder with the name of any of the previous viewers you have used; Firestorm, Phoenix, Emerald, Viewer 2.0 or whatever they have been called.
6 c. Go to your [username]/AppData/Local folder and in that folder look for and delete the folder named "Second Life" or the name of the viewer you were using.
6 c. Go to your [username]/AppData/Local folder and in that folder look for and delete the folder named "Second Life" or the name of the viewer you were using.
Do not worry, none of your Inventory in SecondLife will be lost. That is all stored on the Linden Lab computers.
7. Empty your Trash.
8. Reboot Windows (which means restart your computer, Ars taught me that)
9. Download and install your new viewer
10 Congratulations, you now have a fresh start in SecondLife!
So endeth the second - and probably last - sermon of the Sublime TechMaster on All Things SecondLife. Please note, the TechMaster was taught this trick by the formidable Ewa Aska, owner of Vadstena Castle.
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I was too uninspired for anything else today, so I share my acquired knowledge instead.
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I was too uninspired for anything else today, so I share my acquired knowledge instead.
