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November 18

Would someone be able to mod a skyrim save xbox?

Well here's the thing i was playing skyrim on xbox roughly 15 mins ago and i loaded up my save but when i loaded the game i glitched under the floor so i reloaded and when i loaded the save it crashed my game saying the disc is unreadable (im using a digital download of the store not a disc btw) so i had to delete my save, so i was wondering if someone would be kind enough to mod a new save for me (preferably with character creation please) with enough gold to build the first house and buy some thing roughly 50,000 would be enough and a fair few lock pick and enough materials to build thing let say 350 of each material. if someone could do this for me they would be doing me a huge favor. thanks in advance. Oh i don't want any armor,weapons or thing like that aswell thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.101.239.228 (talk) 17:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure if what you are asking is possible. If it is, this is not the place for that kind of request. I suggest you ask the nice folks over at reddit.com/r/skyrim or any other skyrim forum. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:31, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

As SemanticMantis said, a forum like this one would be the best place to go. Skyrim Forums seems to have an active modding community. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 21:44, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

You could convert skyrim xbox save to pc: http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/copy-convert-your-skyrim-game-save-from-xbox-360-your-pc-0132217/ , https://www.xboxmb.com/ than do all of your hacking/modding you want, and convert it back to xbox save using https://www.xboxmb.com/ too 140.0.229.39 (talk) 12:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

monitor with USB jacks

I've seen a monitor with a USB A jack on the back and two USB A jacks on the side (in addition to the usual video cable jack). What are these for? Can you run a USB cable to the back and use the ones on the side for flash drives or something? Or are they to connect to monitors? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 17:45, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

The Dell monitors that I use both have this feature. Basically, it just has a USB hub built into the monitor. It allows you to have a single long USB cable from computer to monitor - then plug your mouse and keyboard into the monitor. It reduces the number of cables going off to the computer and allows you to avoid the situation where your mouse cable gets all tangled up with the other wires around the computer. This gives you much more flexibility about where you position things on your desk...and not having an extra USB hub cluttering up your desk is nice too. I'm pretty sure the monitor itself doesn't use the USB connection - I have three monitors on my desk and I only connected up the USB port for one of them - the other two seem to work just fine without it. The monitor has a similar feature for audio jacks - so you can plug headphones into the monitor then plug the monitor into the PC. SteveBaker (talk) 18:07, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, you need a male-to-male USB cable to go from the computer to the monitor, right? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 18:12, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Usually, it's a USB-A to USB-B like the one in this image that you would use for a printer. For an example of the connections, take a look at this Dell monitor. In amongst the "features" images is a view of the underside of the monitor (I would link to the image but the site uses Flash to display the images). It shows on the right-hand end, 2 USB ports, and next to it the point where you connect the 'B' end of the USB cable from your computer. Astronaut (talk) 19:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I haven't seen it myself, but the person I'm trying to help says that a USB keyboard plugs into the jack in the monitor, which would be USB A. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 20:35, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Sure, the out-going sockets are USB-A, but like most USB hubs, the incoming socket will probably be a USB-B. APL (talk) 18:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the keyboard will plug into the monitor with USB A standard plug (aka "male"). My Apple monitor plugs into the CPU tower with the same USB A plug, and the cord doesn't have another end, it is all sealed into the monitor. In the case where the monitor-to-tower plug can be disconnected, it could conceivably have any of the USB#Connector_types (I thought the U was supposed to stand for universal :-/ ), but USB A plug, or USB B plug would be most likely. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I've also seen USB jacks used to display pics and play songs on the TV. StuRat (talk) 19:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I loaned her a male-to-male USB cable. She connected it to the back of the monitor and to the computer. She tried devices in the monitpr's side USB ports. They didn't work, so it must not be acting like a hub. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:23, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Just about all usb cables are male-to-male. You mean USB-A to USB-B? Pluging from the computer's USB-A to the hub's USB-A isn't going to make it work. APL (talk) 06:51, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

My Recent Documents Disappear

When I click on My Recent Documents in the start menu I frequently get "empty" even though I have openned documents recently. Sometimes they show for a while and then disappear again. Please help.172.6.250.89 (talk) 22:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)