Kasey On Tech

Recently after a bit of registry cleaning, my desktop stopped launching games from Steam. I tried to troubleshoot this, and ended up spending HOURS chasing something that seems rather popular but nobody seem to have a proper solution. The symptoms are simple: all of the shortcuts on the desktop turned into the blank "white page" icons. When you right click it, it doesn't say what app to open it with. Its type is "Internet Shortcut (url).  Deleting it and recreating it from within Steam (gear icon // Create Desktop Shortcut) doesn't help. It seems the .URL handler is completely f-ed up. I tried reinstalling Steam, and Steam actually did delete all the old files and reinstalled its own files. No change.   So I go look for a registry fix... Except...  .url is NO LONGER A SUPPORTED file type in Windows 11. It's kept in as a backward compatibility setting only. So you have to search Win10 fixes.  So I found this fix via WinhelpOnline . Download the reg zip, unzip,...

Everybody is talking about AI. ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney...  (By the way, if you ran out of credits on Midjourney, Blue Willow will let you generate UNLIMITED amount of art. Maybe there will be more invites... ) And someone made something that can run on your home gaming PC... Provided you have a good (read: gaming) video card... Called Invoke.ai. It's so good, they're going commercial .  So why am I talking about this? Turns out, you *can* still download and install InvokeAI on your own PC . It just requires a little more work.  So I went ahead and downloaded the installer... run it, and promptly hit a bug...  invokeAI configuration error: npyscreen module not found Searching the net shows this problem is fairly well-know, but nobody had tracked down what caused this problem or have a fix for it. Someone claimed manually installing the stuff works, but it did not work for me.  I happen to know a little Python (both the programming and the environme...