how do people who know so little about computers mess them up so badly

[kaiser soze]

How does checking email, Facebook, surfing the net, and reading the news break a computer so badly?

I would think my computer would be literally smoking with how much shit I do to it

but....I also know how to maintain it ;)

people over 40 shouldn't own computers, they suck at computers.

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

Hahaha yes absolutely. My grandma (before we lived with her) would call me dad at least once a month sayin she needed him to come look at her computer cause it was "actin weird" and she ended up frying most of them.

[Helvete]

Because old people click on those stupid links and spyware the fuck out of the computers. "click here to claim your $1,000,000", "you are the 1 millionth visitor, click to claim your prize" etc.

[silence7]

You must have been at a relative's house over the holiday??

I had that issue, any time I'd visit it was "Since you're here anyway, can you take a look at my computer?" Then I'd sit there for hours fixing the computer while everyone else had a good time.

Father bought 2 iMacs, I haven't touched them, and he doesn't call about them.. I'm a PC person, but I like the Macs for him... ;)

[checkyourprez]

A simple answer....porn.




Going into safe mode and doing a system recovery is pretty easy, but I guess if you are unfamilair with computers in the first place it might be harder than it sounds.

[kaiser soze]

you guessed it!

a pc and laptop

:rolleyes:

the pc was just little shit - the laptop is still being a bugger, first a bad SP update and now Windows Update is jacked

blargh

[TurdBerglar]

haha i just helped a neighbor put together a computer he got for christmas after he attempted to put it together himself. i don't know what he did but i think he fried something on it. he didn't even screw down the motherboard properly so when you pull on the plugs it flexes and creaks. im sure he busted his motherboard.

i asked him where the motherboard manual was and he just shrugged... what the hell man. if you're gonna put something together look at the damn manual! this isn't a kitchen table set from ikea.

[Yeti]

people over 40 shouldn't own computers, they suck at computers.

40?! Sheesh, your idea of old is going to change very soon. I hope that you get vericose veins.

I admit that I am old but come on! I know my way around an Apple III.

[kaiser soze]

sorry for the hard feelin's - i was kiddin' considering I'm not too far from 40 myself

for fucks sake, I'm getting old!

anyways, anyone know how to fix a #elementmoduleheadertext# on windows update?

Looks like MS doesn't even know how to fix it...

[kaiser soze]

A simple answer....porn.




Going into safe mode and doing a system recovery is pretty easy, but I guess if you are unfamilair with computers in the first place it might be harder than it sounds.

this jacked SP1 install wipes out previous recovery points - others have also run into this problem. So - the only RP is the SP1 update that broke this shit.

[kaiser soze]

and what is the use of a recovery partition?!

[M|X|Y]

i spent yesterday giving my grandma computer lessons. she REALLY wants to learn

she can't get past start-up and closing all the update and bullshit windows that come up.

control panel > msconfig > etc etc.

turned everything off, put three icons on her desktop: skype, email, photos

everything is auto log-in. she's 80 and i think never finished high school.

its a miracle that she learned to SEND AN EMAIL. her gmail is autolog-in, its one icon she has to click on her desktop. she keeps going to "sent mail" because she wants to send an email. getting her to know that going to "compose" is to send an email was a task because... "i don't want compote!"

problems coming soon

ipad coming soon after.

gotta love her for trying so hard (y)