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Message # 28129.5

Subject: How To Screw Up A Computer

Date: Fri 23/03/07 18:52:42 GMT

Name: Barry

Email: barryseaweed@yahoo.com

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"I turned off the power on my power strip a few seconds before the computer had completely shut down!"

That never bothered my computer, but I only use laptops and if the power gets cut it would simply use battery power.

One of my friends gave me his old notebook for Christmas, and I needed it because my last notebook was really screwed up.

I used to think I was computer illiterate, but last year I found someone more computer illiterate than me! The bad thing is, the person more computer illiterate than me was my former wireless service's tech support!

I called them because when I tried to open my browser, the sign-in screen would prompt me for my username and password, as well it should. After I entered it, I would always get the "cannot display this webpage" message. All I wanted them to do was manually sign me in so I could bypass their log in page. Instead, the tech support person kept asking "Sir, have you ever used your computer before?" Then tech support walked me through to change some settings to get it to work and after that my computer would pass the sign in page, but after that it would only display half the webpages! It wouldn't even display this forum!

I called back a week later, and when tech support answered, I said I needed help fixing my computer because the last tech support person I talked to was a complete moron that fucked up my computer. Sadly, at that point I realized I was on the phone with the same person I didn't get any help

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OT: I almost really screwed up my computer!

By Desert Hawk - Fri 23/03/07 08:05:09 GMT

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Today I made a very simple mistake that I thought was going to destroy my computer! I turned off the power on my power strip a few seconds before the computer had completely shut down! I realized what I had done as soon as I did it. I turned my compuer back on to see if there was any damage. There was! It would look like Windows was booting, but it would next best thing to freeze up after booting. AOL would not start. "My Pictures" would not start. In fact the only thing that would start was Solitaire, and it took a long time to start. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was afraid I had totally ruined my computer with one stupid mistake. "Turn off computer" worked, so I shut it down again and then turned it on again and at the first boot screen I pressed F10 (system recovery). This went through a bunch of crap for literally half an hour. Then I had to go through the first time powerup crap (name the computer, do I want to sign up for this and that, etc). Then I had to click Internet Setup and reselect AOL as my default ISP. Then I had to wait for it to reset again. Then I was finally able to make AOL start and My Pictures start. I connected for about 2 minutes, then signed off and shut down the computer again and restarted it again to make sure everything works. Now I am back on. WHEW!!! My AOL account information is intact, and so are my pictures, although it did put thekm in a different order (alphabetical, I think). I think I will remember to not hit the power switch too soon again! WHY ARE PC'S SO SENSITIVE???!!!

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