How can i reset my 2nd life back to default?

well i was messing around with all the setting at the top and now all i get is blue particles coming out of my avatar and any avatar i see has blue particles coming out of them. and also anythin i touch has red particles that come out of it, I can turn off all particles and all is fine but i just need to fix this,,, I have tried uninstalling 2nd life and reinstalling it and does not reset back to default , i still have same problem and is not just on my sim is where ever i go...Can anybody help me with this? Please? I just need an easy button,,,,,

thank u
jthorn

An easy button would be to "retire" your current avi and go get an alt.

But to fix your avi shouldn't be too hard. Not sure exactly all the steps to take but when I did something similar back when I started I first went into appearance and "detached all" attachments. That will take off any prim hair plus all the other prims and AO's, gestures etc you have on. Then go into your inventory down to the Library folder and find a male or female skin that you might like to wear. Wear it. Then find a shape you might like and wear it too. You can search around to find the "default" if you want.

Or, as an alternate way go shopping for skins and shapes.......some good ones can be found in freebie places too. Just wear them. That removes your messed up skin and shape. But you will have to detach all to get rid of the particles and any other annoying attachments.

Hope that helps.

Yes it is not just from my avatar it is any avatar i see and anything i touch particles come out of and i cant seem to fix it even if i uninstall and reinstall.. Is there away i can uninstall 2nd life and reinstall it back to all default settings? I thought that is what it did when u uninstalled and reinstalled, was set back to defaults. But i still have the same problem, help me please, there everywhere, lol no for real any help here i would really appreciate it....

All your settings are stored on Linden Labs servers..........not your client. Uninstalling and reinstalling will not fix it. It's something you've done that is saved on LL's servers. Did you try detaching all? Are you wearing a HUD? Try making yourself an alt (second account............free) and check the settings. Also go to some prim attachment in your inventory and right click it and move your mouse to the "attach" field to expand attachment points (don't attach it, just see what is attached to your avi). That may give you a clue to what is causing your problem.

Ok i even tried with a new account and my alt is doing the same thing, lol . i have no clue, and yes i tried detaching all , and still having same issue. well thanks peggy, i guess i have to wait on the lindens on this one, dam i be stuck with particles for weeks , lol

Sorry............it is weird to say the least.

Well, it is the weekend..........and we all know freaky stuff happens on weekends.

Good luck.

You've somehow enabled Show Updates.. Press ctrl-alt-shift-U to toggle it back off.

It's a good debugging tool when you're doing scripting stuff. Blue means that the object is changing position and/or rotation, red means a full object update, green is an object being deleted.

On a windows PC, I think you can reset all the settings by deleting (or just renaming, if you want to be safe) the C:\Documents and Settings\<your windows login>\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml file. You don't need to do this if ctrl-alt-shift-U works.

yea is what it was , thank u so much Sindy, is all good now , thanks again

"All your settings are stored on Linden Labs servers"

Not true, debug/color setting ini file/preference are all on your client/pc

Then why would an uninstall and reinstall not fix the problem?

Because, apparently, the uninstall doesn't totally remove everything.

so one of the "easy buttons" for a fix like that would have been to uninstall then do a search for files containing SL and manually delete? I'm not arguing just thinking out loud, so to speak.

SL installs files on 2 places (default anyway);

C:\Program Files\SecondLife
and
C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\SecondLife

Only C:\Program Files\SecondLife, will be removed when you uninstall, the settings bound to user doesnt get removed.

All your client setting is saved in

C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\SecondLife\yoursecondlifename\settings.xml
(very little here)

and

C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml

You can however set SL to load a diffrent settingfile by changing the shortcuit to add -settings whatever.xml, handy when you want to log in SL with nothing enabled if you experience problems make a new settingfile, set it low as possible for exsample."C:\Program Files\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe" -settings whatever.xml

Ok, so I was getting this strange texture error where the ground and some of my builds were textured with a tiled, scrolling image of my desktop. I turned off Anisotropic Filtering as a solution. That fixed it, except then I got this same particle effect over everything. I just tried ctrl+alt+shift+U to stop the particle effect, and now my textures are tiling from my desktop again. Help? Do I really have to choose between one or the other, or can I have my nice, normal SL back?

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