Author Archives: krylon

I tried running an old program and received this error message: Run-time error ‘713’ Class not registered. You need the following file to be installed on your machine. MSSTDFMT.DLL Here are the steps to solve it using an official dll … Continue reading →

You may receive an error when trying to play a game on the EA App (Origin based games). We’re sorry, an error has occurred Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL: [gfsdk_aftermath_lib.x64.dll] Error: 0x45A. Clicking Exit results in another error: … Continue reading →

I was trying to run the latest Thaiphoon Burner on Windows 7 and was having no luck. At the time of this guide, the Thaiphoon Burner version was 17.4.1.2 build 0902 Final. When trying to launch, the first message was: … Continue reading →

You might find yourself in a situation where you have an old motherboard based on a phoenixBIOS chip, and you desire to update the BIOS to the latest version. In this example, I had a Supermicro X7DWE-O.  The motherboard is … Continue reading →

If using Microsoft Authenticator, you may receive the following error message when trying to remove an account: You need to disable backup to delete <account>. This can happen if you are trying to delete the account that is also acting … Continue reading →

One case study involved an Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) system that was protected with Fail2fan.  However the server was also protected with Cloudflare, so there was some work needed to get the remote IP of the attacker (this topic was … Continue reading →

On Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) running PHP 8.2, you may run into an issue after installing the latest phpMyAdmin (5.2.1) using the PPA (ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa). When you try to log in to phpMyAdmin, you will get the following message:  Error: Unknown … Continue reading →

If you have a Sprint branded Blackberry phone (in this case a Bold 9930 running OS 7.1) that has an old phone number (MDN) on it, you may find that the number remains even after performing a Security Wipe of … Continue reading →

On a Blackberry (in this case a Bold 9930 running Blackberry OS 7.1), you can check for forced encryption on the device by going to: Options -> Security -> Encryption. There you will see a lock symbol illuminated for Device … Continue reading →

If you are having trouble getting Q-Flash Plus to work, below are some tips: Use a dedicated USB disk, freshly formatted using FAT32 with Windows explorer.  I’ve read some tutorials that said smaller size thumb drives are better but I … Continue reading →