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Offline frankcapri

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Computer Maintenance Blues
« on: January 16, 2009, 04:19:56 PM »
I've spent 6 hours of this day so far transferring files, running scans, and installing random crap onto
the three computers I own. 

It's absolutely ridiculous how much digitized junk I have. 

On a positive note, I found some spyware that had been slowing down my laptop
substantially.

Just thought I'd share  :)
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 05:34:07 PM »
All I ever seem to do is buy more hard drives :-\  I don't organise the files I've downloaded like I keep saying I'll do, I just keep running out of space, swapping things about, and end up bulding extentions to house more shite.  One day I'll go through it all and end up with a couple of TBs of reclaimed memory - Lord knows that is something I'm short of in more ways than one...
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 05:41:08 PM »
i have a self build pc....very nice too :)

i am very pc literate, yet in spite of my best efforts, i recently had to do a reformat due to a virus called 'seneka'

i dont visit porn sites or moody gambling sites, i don't randomly browse sites, so where it came fom is a mystery to me.

i spent a day and a half going round in circles before calling it a day and resorting to the reformat...

...but on a lighter note, my pc now has the 64 bit o/s it was crying out for from day 1 :D
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2009, 07:07:49 PM »
Quote from: oothefuxthat on January 16, 2009, 05:41:08 PM
i dont visit porn sites or moody gambling sites, i don't randomly browse sites, so where it came fom is a mystery to me.

ah, come on! Now, why would you lie to us?  ;)
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2009, 07:56:09 PM »
Funny you should start this thread...

I'm only posting now because i'm at home, my work 'puter crashed today. I was typing a response e-mail and all of a sudden - the blue screen of death. I reboot and get my desktop image, but no access to anything else. Boot again, blue screen of death. The Tech even got it when trying to boot up in safe mode. So he decides to install a backup image and that stars giving him problems for awhile. When I left he was nearing the complete re-install...

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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 10:52:27 PM »

Please Jack, dont speak of this blue screen. I have some very vivid flashbacks which I have been trying to block.
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2009, 01:42:52 AM »
I rarely, if ever, see the blue screen, which is why I was so astonished that it came up when all I was doing was typing...
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2009, 08:18:56 AM »
Please

Don't mention BSOD in public.   
Twice last year my windows crash and I lost almost everything in my C disk.
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2009, 01:28:56 PM »
Quote from: goldshirt*9 on January 17, 2009, 10:03:44 AM
ouch that sucks.
fortunately i back everything up.
except when i forget   :P  :D
I sometimes forget back ups and then poo happens.  :(
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 03:42:50 PM »
I haven't had a BSOD since I switched to Vista, knock on wood  :D
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 11:05:06 PM »
It's sort of odd y'all talking about that dreaded blue screen because my wife
told me it popped up on the laptop yesterday.  I have a feeling the hard drive
is dying.  Good thing there's nothing important on that thing  :-\
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 11:11:40 PM »
BSOD is the Internets Voldemort...
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 11:30:54 PM »
I used to have a BSOD screen saver on my computer, and it never ceased to scare the crap out of me  :D
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 11:37:25 PM »
Quote from: frankcapri on January 22, 2009, 11:30:54 PM
I used to have a BSOD screen saver on my computer, and it never ceased to scare the crap out of me  :D

There was a game on the GameCube called Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem that was kind of a Lovecraftian horror survival-type game (a good one actually). But one of the things about your character was a sanity meter that would rise and fall with the players proximity to the strange. There'd be times when the screen would be kinda swirly, or the character wouldn't follow the controls properly, but occasionally it would 'go to 11' so to speak and the character would go totally apeshit. And when that terrified, one of the things that the game does as it distorts itself is to flash the BSOD.

I about poo when I saw it because I had no Idea what the BSOD meant for the GameCube.  :D

Gave the intended scare effect, tho'...  :P
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Re: Computer Maintenance Blues
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 11:38:42 PM »
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