After about a year of putting it off I went out and found a power supply for a laptop I have. I am in the process of cleaning all the crap out of it, defragging the sucker, etc.
This may take a bit. This machine is absolutely filthy, Half the programs on here appear to be some form of spyware. Ugh. My brother has no concept of how to keep his machine secure, and he wonders why his computers always blow up.
Update: 12:51
We're fast approaching the really fun part of cleaning up any computer that I happen to acquire ownership of. This is the part where I start deleting things in the C: drive more or lessa t random until the spyware stops. I figure even the most persistent and annoying adware programs will eventually die if you delete enoug of their critical files, and if I can't get Word to load Helvetica font ever again, so what? I didn't like Helvetica much anyway.
Update: 1:02
I'm really not very tech proficient. I used to be fairly good for a layman, back when I was about sixteen. It was a hell of a lot easier, back then. I think the documentation was better, or maybe I was just more willing to be patient with the machines. I used to be able to fix things, get them working. But I didn't keep up with the changing technology, and I slipped behind. I don't even recognize a lot of the terminology anymore, Their are whole new categories of hardware systems I can't work with. I suppose I should learn. It would be a neat trick to actually be able to get my computer to do what I want it to do instead of what mircosoft wants me to do with it.
This may take a bit. This machine is absolutely filthy, Half the programs on here appear to be some form of spyware. Ugh. My brother has no concept of how to keep his machine secure, and he wonders why his computers always blow up.
Update: 12:51
We're fast approaching the really fun part of cleaning up any computer that I happen to acquire ownership of. This is the part where I start deleting things in the C: drive more or lessa t random until the spyware stops. I figure even the most persistent and annoying adware programs will eventually die if you delete enoug of their critical files, and if I can't get Word to load Helvetica font ever again, so what? I didn't like Helvetica much anyway.
Update: 1:02
I'm really not very tech proficient. I used to be fairly good for a layman, back when I was about sixteen. It was a hell of a lot easier, back then. I think the documentation was better, or maybe I was just more willing to be patient with the machines. I used to be able to fix things, get them working. But I didn't keep up with the changing technology, and I slipped behind. I don't even recognize a lot of the terminology anymore, Their are whole new categories of hardware systems I can't work with. I suppose I should learn. It would be a neat trick to actually be able to get my computer to do what I want it to do instead of what mircosoft wants me to do with it.
I can't spell regestry,err registry?