Dumb stuff people do on their computers

I didn't dust my computer put for five and a half years and the CPU caught fire .

I had to replace the motherboard, audio card, power supply, tower, headphones (unrelated), keyboard and mouse (also unrelated). I also needed a new hard drive for the system reload, and my monitor isn't in great shape either.

My video card miraculously survived , and I still have the same microphone and desk lamp.

Total cost: $350-something CAD (yeah, I got some cheap parts).

Oh, and now I dust my computer more often .

I learned never to drink coke next to a computer :grinthumb ! That 0 on the number pad is still sticky...and that spill was a good 4 years ago !

porn will always make the keyboard sticky too....

Umm......no comment.......:grinthumb !

LMFAO..yea dont tell no one u have a web cam. Especially College girls...working in a hospital wil tech you two thing: Technically...Doctors are illiterate...2: Never leave any liquids open near a PC.

But i guess when its not your PC you pay for who cares.

Things a user can do

Granted, this one happened years ago (when floppy disks were common in all those PCs) but i still think goes one better in examples of tech phone support and what users on the other end can do. TRUE STORY

McDonalds installed PCs with custom applications in their stores to interface with cash register, inventory, etc to help run the store. There was also a Help Desk, of course. Someone at one of the stores called because they were having problems with the PC.

• Help Desk tells them to insert a diskette
• User says "What"?
• Help Desk tells them to insert a diskette into the slot
• User says OK and after a pause says nothing is happening
• Help Desk finally figures out User stuffed a biscuit into the diskette drive

LMFAO but hey thats why Techs, no help desk people unless your like @ the Senior level, the techs who fix Pc's and visit user who have Tchnical issues, get paid Good money.

Im only an intern, but damn i am working my ***** off so i can get a good hookup

dumbest thing i did... chose to get a computer with windows Mistake Edition.... shoulda stuck with 98SE

dumbest thing i did two years back on my desktop (when I was still quite a noob at everything):

discovered some terrible malware and virus. I reformatted the system and reinstalled windows XP which took freeakinggggg lonnggg.
I did a search for the bad files which turned up nothing, then did a search in windows registry. It showed up, so I deleted it. Later on I researched for the files in hidden files and folders which again turned up nothing, then search in registry which showed up again.
I thought this was terrible (somebody told me it was possible the infection resided in the hard disk or something) and did a reformat + clean install again.

Repeated this entire process like 3-5 times before I realised that the value showing up in the registry was under HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603 and the full impact of the words Search Assistant hit me.
-_-"

:haha::haha:

(no offense, of course)

WOW....I would kind of say that you definitely felt Salted! haha

:grinthumb

I laughed so hard I couldn't stop!

How the...:haha: ?

a biscuit? This sounds like a Richard Gear syndrome (except without hamsters.)

interesting...i wonder how the drive reacted to that!

Well... i'd guess for once the drive actually had a bite instead of a byte.

:haha: LookinAround :grinthumb !

I say that there are some people that aren't too technically advanced in this world !

Don't take this offensively, but... Thanks Captain Obvious.

I like biscuits....

Maybe the guy thought the biscuits would go well with the cookies in the temp files

actually my friend is running xp 500 mhz 128 mgs of ram patched bios so he could put three 80 gig drives on it now top that