ARGH! Badly Maintained PC Rant!

Muffin` said:
You can move the Offline files from the C:\WINDOWS\CSC with a tool called Cachemov.exe :)

And the shop here has some good offers on 500GB externals for pittence, could even stick it on a 12% month Interest free card if your extra skint :)
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I will go look, cheers.

The other issue is how well will 5 peoples docs and music (and SD video) stream over a 54mb WiFi network.....

Mr Government gives me a student loan in a couple of weeks, a 500GB will be here soon, closely followed by another should the server idea work
 
Skeeter said:
I will go look, cheers.

The other issue is how well will 5 peoples docs and music (and SD video) stream over a 54mb WiFi network.....

Mr Government gives me a student loan in a couple of weeks, a 500GB will be here soon, closely followed by another should the server idea work
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Not very well :D

WiFi = devils method

my msn is $W$E^77y@D$$TGY7.%2.PD (decode that) - add me so we can bitch about Fox :o
 
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ARGH! Guess what!

The bloody CD drive is dead in the PC!

Luckily there is a 2nd, just means im back to stage 1 agen!
 
I decided against a family PC for this very reason so everyone has their own pc or laptop this way we can all point and laugh when someone messes their system up foolishly but that's not happened yet from fear of getting laughed at for a day or so :p
 
I had this exact problem a few years ago.

Basically, I'd built my little brother (16 at the time) a PC so he could chat to mates, play the odd game and browse the web. One weekend that I'd returned from Uni I was asked to sort the mess out. Not only had he installed Limewire, KaZaA and all the other variants of P2P crap, but he'd infected himself with Viruses so badly that it took a good hour or so to restore order.

I solved the problem by doing a nuke (after saving what I could) and told him that if it happened again I wouldn't be fixing it.. I also configured the router to block any site with specific keywords, so he couldn't try to redownload the stupid P2P apps.
 
Iv told my parents that Iv had enough. Iv tried to teach them multiple times and they refuse to listen so now they know not to ask me for pc help. I did however recently pass my dad a ubuntu live cd and he seems pretty happy with it lol!
 
Just take comfort in the fact that after you've spent all that time putting it back together, within a month it'll be back to how it was.
 
I don't think my family ever really understood why every few months or so I'd get all huffy and spend an evening swearing at the family PC trying to undo the mess they'd left it in.
 
This is the reason I have my own PC and Laptop so I don't have to bother with their foolishness and if they ask for my help I just tell 'em back up your files and I'll wipe the PC clean for you until this is done I will have no part of it
 
EVH said:
I had this exact problem a few years ago.

Basically, I'd built my little brother (16 at the time) a PC so he could chat to mates, play the odd game and browse the web. One weekend that I'd returned from Uni I was asked to sort the mess out. Not only had he installed Limewire, KaZaA and all the other variants of P2P crap, but he'd infected himself with Viruses so badly that it took a good hour or so to restore order.

I solved the problem by doing a nuke (after saving what I could) and told him that if it happened again I wouldn't be fixing it.. I also configured the router to block any site with specific keywords, so he couldn't try to redownload the stupid P2P apps.
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My brother is exactly the same way but he's 30 and completely thick in the head.

In fact he called me again not long ago asking me to fix his PC. :o
 
At home I have a machine sat on the network with a mirrored array, then just set up laptops etc to a mapped drive set as the My Docs path.

Had the pleasure of being called by someone who had installed Limewire and was now being greeting with tons of popups and everything going slowly... joys :(.
 
I make it a rule not to bother sorting family computers out. I did backup-and-restore my step-sons when he messed it up with viruses and spyware from P2P and Porn sites ( :eek:) but I told him I won't be doing it again. It is in a bit of a mess at the moment (not unusable though) but that is his problem.

My PC doesn't really need a re-install as I am careful. I did one the other day but only because I am selling ti as I don't use it anymore.

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The best part is that me and the wife use a MacBook. It backs up via Time Machine so I don't need to worry about my files, it has never had a virus, doesn't have a registry to mess up and is just about immune to Spyware. It just works.

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