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    serious flaw in Vista's freecell

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by amitface, Sep 29, 2007.

  1. amitface

    amitface Notebook Evangelist

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    The new freecell allows you to save games. If you start a saved game, finish it, quit freecell, and open up freecell again, the same saved game comes up again, and you can't skip it without recording a loss.

    So if you want to play one game at a time, and you have a saved game in your memory, you pretty much have to play it every single time you open freecell.

    Ugh. Any way to get the old freecell back?
     
    amitface, Sep 29, 2007
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  2. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    SP1 ;-)

    I miss 3D pinball from XP. Wish they kept it on Vista.
     
    talin, Sep 29, 2007
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    lua Notebook Consultant

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    hm. i presume you have checked BOTH of the following options?

    - Always continue saved game
    - Always save game on exit
     
    lua, Oct 1, 2007
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  4. amitface

    amitface Notebook Evangelist

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    wow.

    *crawls off into a corner and cries*
     
    amitface, Oct 3, 2007
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    You can delete the saved games. That's the workaround.

    C:\Users\%username%\Saved Games\Microsoft Games\FreeCell

    Bright side? Boost your stats with the same game over and over again! :p

    ALSO, you could try to replace the FreeCell.exe file with the one from XP (back up the current version first).
     
    NinjaNoodles, Oct 3, 2007
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