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Offline xClandestinex

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WildTangent .ini Files
« on: June 07, 2014, 09:53:28 pm »
I had to uninstall FH today due to someone getting on the computer and deleting a crap-ton of stuff. The FH desktop icon and a LOT of important things saved for the game included.  >:( So since all that was left of the game was FHsetup.exe I went ahead and just uninstalled it. I don't know if you can access your presets from FHsetup but I couldn't find them anywhere when I tried.
Well, when the game was wiped clean off of my pc it left behind two icons on my desktop that can't be deleted nor does it lead me anywhere. They're from WildTangent (isn't that tied with feral heart?)

They're .ini files, which I don't even know what that is.  :-[

If I need to give more info, let me know.

Aicosu125

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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2014, 10:01:11 pm »
I'm sure FeralHeart doesn't contain any files of the sort. That may be from something else, hun.

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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2014, 10:17:00 pm »
WildTangent is not tied with Feral Heart in any way; if I remember correctly, they have downloadable games from the internet too. You might have downloaded a malicious program (I think it's spyware/adware, however I'm not 100% sure) on accident. It's best to scan your computer with a anti-virus program such as this: www.malwarebytes.com. I can promise you this: That "virus" did not come from Feral Heart. Feral Heart contains no malicious software, nor does it download any off of the internet.

Also, this is what an .ini file is:
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//SOURCE: Wikipedia.org
The INI file format is an informal standard for configuration files for some platforms or software. INI files are simple text files with a basic structure composed of "sections" and "properties".

In MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows platforms up through Windows ME and Windows 2000, the INI file served as the primary mechanism to configure operating system and installed applications features, such as device drivers, fonts, startup launchers, and things that needed to be initialized in booting Windows. INI files were also generally used by applications to store their individual settings.

In Windows NT Microsoft introduced the registry, and began to steer developers away from using INI files for configuration. All subsequent versions of Windows have used the Windows Registry for system configuration, and applications built on the .NET Framework use special XML .config files. The APIs still exist in Windows, however, and developers may still use them.

The name "INI file" comes from the commonly used filename extension, .INI, which stands for "initialization". Other common initialization file extensions are .CFG, .conf,[1][2] and .TXT,[3] especially 'config.txt' occurrences.

Linux and Unix systems also use a similar file format for system configuration. In addition, platform-agnostic software may use this file format for configuration. It is human-readable and simple to parse, so it is a usable format for configuration files that do not require much greater complexity.
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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2014, 10:30:54 pm »
Well....that's not good.

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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2014, 10:36:25 pm »
Well....that's not good.
I'd highly recommend taking a look at these links on how to remove it:
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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2014, 11:22:20 pm »
Oh my gosh, I had typed up a comment stating the information I gathered about the file then my log in time ran out and it got erased. Gah! I'll type it up in a bit.

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Re: WildTangent .ini Files
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2014, 11:24:06 pm »
Oh my gosh, I had typed up a comment stating the information I gathered about the file then my log in time ran out and it got erased. Gah! I'll type it up in a bit.
I hate when that happens. ;n; If you simply click the back button when that message comes up, you can copy (ctrl + c) and paste (ctrl + v) when you log back in.