>>Family wants to change OSes>>Offer to hold backups on my PC meanwhile>>Spend about an hour looking up how I can do file transfers with the wireless router>>Venkman says USE REALLY LONG CABLESHaha, oh Venkman.... Then I realized everyone else in the house uses laptops.
>"Bea why does the computer run so slow?">Because you use Macafee which is a giant monster of a program.>"NO THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT FIND A WAY TO MAKE THE COMPUTER RUN FAST"I'm considering painting a racing stripe on it for all the good it'll do.
>mom needs help importing CDs to iTunes>I end up talking about the difference between .mp3, .wav, .aiff, etc.
>Using the computer at home
>Customer comes into work>"Can I use this 8gb flash drive to back things up?">It should be enough to back up a good amount of files.>"Well I use Windows XP. Will Windows XP fit on it?"
>>44Well you CAN make a windows boot usb...
>Build parents new windows 7 PC to replace 7 year old piece of crap I built in 2002.>With windows 7 included it costs only $700>Everything turned out better than expected.
>Whenever I have to help my parents with their computer.Which is often. Once, my dad called me cause he couldn't figure out where the minimized window had gone. Yeah, I don't know how he couldn't figure it out either.
>She's FLIPPIN OUT and IT'S ALL MY FAULT>MICROSOFT WORD WON'T OPEN YOU DID THIS>MY BOOK IS RUINED, YOU KILLED EVERYTHING>Check out her computer>She installed using my old Vista CD>Word locks up because she never entered the key>".....Well actually it kept telling me to enter it. I just ignored it.">Install Open Office
>Help a friend by installing Mozilla and some other INCREDIBLY NEEDED PROGRAMS>One program stops working about two days after>All my fault, parents pissed, all programs deleted.It was a fucking anti-virus program, Avast. They blamed that Mozilla and Avast destroyed their Limewire thing. Ever sense, they have viruses out the ass and they blame each other for them, but never really doing anything about it.
>>Get new E8400>>Turns out to be E0 stepping>>lap that shit>>lap my heatsink too>>put on mild overclock until I get a PSU I trust more>>Temps staying at ~35 degrees
>Fix my computer by restoring it to factory default>Three days later it fucks up again
>>.076v vdrop
>Softsubs show up at 1pt.>Follow instructions and download codecs needed to fix.>Still does it.>Download MPC>Still does it
>i'm told my sister has picked up a virus from the school computers>run Mbam on all 3 family computers
>parents computer>47 infected files removed
>my computer>0 infected files found
>sisters computer>178 infected files removedand to top that off someone from her class later told me it was the other way around, and she'd infected the entire school network
>>26>Using something other than Avast!>>184>lol at people who don't know how to computer.
>>187I don't like avast!. I prefer AntiVir.
>>194Pfffttt
>>187>avast!No thanks, AVG works just fine for me. Avast! can't work on my parent's computer very well because the beast only has 1 gig of RAM.>work computers use internet explorer 7 and the first release of firefox
>>207>AVGWow. AVG is baaaaaaaaad. Avast is beeeeeeeest.
>Buy brand new ext. hard drive on clearance because the model's a little over half a year old>500GB>40 dollarsSo this is what it must feel like to steal candy from babies.
>Parent's Desktop computer>Desktop full of icons>Recycle Bin has 2,500+ items>Insist Internet Explorer is a good browser>Have god knows how many toolbars in IE7.As if the greentexting wasn't bad enough;>Dad thinks Mozilla Firefox is spyware>Dad thinks I don't update my computer>I now password protect my laptop when I'm at work.
>Aunt insists that she should be able to check her email>She has no internet>wants me to make it so she can check her email>she does not want (to pay for) internet>implies it should be possible to check email without internet access.>keeps implying I know or that I'm lieing about not knowing.>keeps insisting she caught me in lies and that you can check email without access to the internet.I've mentioned how much I hate the philosophy that you can make whatever you want happen by believing in it.
>>478That's the power of...THE SECRET!
>>480
>Mom is buying an iPadmom no what is wrong with you
>mom wants to know how to check e-mail>explain slowly and clearly>repeat ad naseum every night
Sure is 'FAMILY ARE BAD AT COMPUTARS' in here. :(
>>496My father is great with them. He's the only reason I can use them at all. He taught me how to do all sorts of things, and I'm a very attentive student. I take plenty of notes and make sure to keep them well organized....Nah, I'm kidding. He can't use them at all and I have to help him do the simplest things... like moving a file into a different folder... And he never even bothers to try to remember how to do it for the next time he needs to do it.
My Mom's really proficient at office suites. I mean she makes me look like a retard and I have higher than average familiarity with Word and Excel, etcOtherwise, she's lost but I think that's just because I take care of her laptop for her anyway. If she had to, she'd know. Dad... I have my procrastination and messy habits from him let's leave it at that.
My dad for a 60 year old is actually pretty pro.He can fix most of the common problems and assemble/repair computers by himself.My mom on the other hand...
>Little brother gets an iPhone>It's not even as a "well done on your exams" thing, he just kept asking for it
>>184If MBAM removed that many, chances are there are quite a few it didn't even see
>"gaming laptop"
>>Trying to install virtual PC/XP Mode>>Please run our activation validatorWell, okay.>>Install>>Nothing happens>>Press continue>>Please run our activation validatorWell fuck. Guess I can try to rein sta->>Update isn't in the updates list in remove programsMicrosoft, you are your own worst enemy. brb demonoid