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How-to manually uninstall Left4Dead

Stijn — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:45:07 +0000

I’m quit happy about steam, but today I had some problems with the game Left4Dead. Actually to be honest I had the problem for a few days and hoped it just would disappear, but because it didn’t I stuck fixing the problem >_< . So here I a quick and easy how-to for manually uninstalling Left4Dead from your computer that doesn't include a hammer or other high destructive tools.

Lets start:

First close down steam. Right click in the taskbar icon and exit.
Go to steamapps folder of steam folder. In most cases you will find this in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps

or

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps
In this folder you will find 4 files: left 4 dead base.ncf, left 4 dead binaries.ncf, left 4 dead client binary.ncf and left 4 dead sound.ncf. Remove these files.
Next, go into the common folder, there you will find a left 4 dead folder. Again. remove it.
Start Steam and normally left4dead will be gone in your “installed” list and will be found in the “not installed” list.

Now that wasn’t so hard, probably the reason why I didn’t found any guides about it on the net. If you want to install the game again, just use the disk or download it.

How not to use a keyboard

Stijn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:03:38 +0000

So here is a nice picture of a keyboard I just received on my work.
I sometimes make jokes about computer problems that can be solved by just plugging in the cables. But after looking at this, it sometimes better they call the helpdesk. ;-)

Download (rip) flash movie from deredactie.be (update 22 nov ’10)

Stijn — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:49:34 +0000

Deredactie.be is the Flemish (Belgium) government news site and in my opinion one of the best news sites of Belgium. Most of there programmes can be viewed afterwards and the articles sometimes have small clips and those clips don’t stay online forever and there isn’t an “download” button. Luckily they don’t secure there links really hard and it’s real easy to download a clip in flash format.
Note: I updated the script (22 nov 2010)

1, 2, 3 -tutorial

All you need to do is go to the source code of the page ands search (ctrl+f) for ‘v_videoUrl’ the link after that is the download link. Copy paste in your browser and done.

Another and easier way is to copy-past the permalink into the next textbox and hit “Give me the download link”.

Note about piracy: It’s really complicate, if you download, print or save something from deredactie.be you need to keep in mind that all materials are copyrighted. However, there is a grey area in the Belgium law that allows you to use it for personal use and (if I’m correct) for studying. Let me put it this way:

May you show it to your friends? Yes
May you place it on facebook (or other website)? No
May you use it for a school project in class? Yes
May you use it for a school project outside class or in front of strangers? No