computers eerrrr

[kiwigeo]

The most satisfying thing to do to a computer is to point a 2x12g at it and let go.

Thought about that with my last Compaq laptop but didnt have a shottie handy....ended up parking the car on top of the machine (very satsifying crunching and splintering noises) and sending some action pics of same to Compaq along with a turse letter explaining what I thought of their product.

[vsquizz]

You forgot option d: get a Mac.

Yep, here we go again

Cheers

[barnsey]

I've spent all weekend trying to get back on here after crossing to broadband and trying to get No1 son on a simple home network - just the 2 of us.

I'm about ready to go out to Canungra and get the team out there to excercise their demolition skills on these bloody black boxes.:mad:

And if I wanted to mess with the people who encouraged?? Billy G them I'll get em to include me

And then I can't get Dell to tell me why her 6 month old Inspiron 1150 goes into uncontrollable hibernation mode on start-up :mad: :mad:

Yep - go and install updated drivers for your display - I had to do it too!!

If anyone can expand on my problems I'd appreciate that too!!!

That was a real highjack - PM me and we'll start a new one

[dzcook]

ok guys thks for all the input
brother ( smarter than me with putors ) thinks its the lack of a driver disc ? with the new moniter have gone to their web site but nothing there foir my monitor so haveing to use the generic version which seems to be the problem

will keep at it and see what happens in the end

must admit that after the last few weeks the thought of driving over the thing dose appeal

just annoys that never ever seem to stop spending on the rotten things



just atotal change has anyone else being annoyed by a message pop up that keeps appearing on my screen telling me my putor is infected or needs attention and go to X site to do repairs ( dont as its not a legit site ) have contact mircosoft about it and they said sorry cant do anything as its not a virus just a miss use of message service and is very annoying but am i being the lucky one or are others having it happen as well ???

[kiwigeo]

And then I can't get Dell to tell me why her 6 month old Inspiron 1150 goes into uncontrollable hibernation mode on start-up :mad: :mad:

Sounds like Dell's backup service is about as helpful as Compaq's. I use alot of Dells at work and cant say I like them very much...quality of build is not great and I havent found them very reliable either. if I was forced to go back to PC portables (Mac user at home and at work when not on a clients network) it'd be a Toshiba.

[kiwigeo]

Yep, here we go again

Cheers

Not about to launch into a Mac versus PC tirade but was merely pointing out a missing option

[kiwigeo]

just a total change has anyone else being annoyed by a message pop up that keeps appearing on my screen telling me my putor is infected or needs attention and go to X site to do repairs ( dont as its not a legit site ) have contact mircosoft about it and they said sorry cant do anything as its not a virus just a miss use of message service and is very annoying but am i being the lucky one or are others having it happen as well ???

Sounds like your computer may be infected with adware....its probably dicked with your Windows registry database settings so it keeps popping up all the time.

Try running Adaware or one of the other legit anti-spyware packages and you should be able to get rid of the nasty.

[barnsey]

dzcook - G'day

After years of using free download virus and spam blocker type software with limited success I might add, I've gone with McAfee bundle and it's been the best thing I've done - was costing me more time trying to defeat all the **** you get. They look after it all and even with a change of ISP it has been easy to protect myself from all that crap.

FWIW

[SteveAndBelle]

Yep ... I've got to agree with Barnsey, the McAfee bundle is brilliant and does what it should do which is to sit in the background and do what it needs to do quietly and only alert you when things heat up.

I've recently added the new-ish McAfee AntiSpyWare app and it's a little ripper (as per all other McAfee apps).

Norton on the other hand can cause more problems that it prevents so please be very careful using it. I used to fix 'home' type PC's and on the systems suffering strange software problems and very sluggish performance about 9 times out of 10 would run close to perfect once Norton had been fully removed. That was back in Win2K days sure but I've heard similar things about Norton even now running on WinXP too.

McAfee all the way !

Steve.

[barnsey]

Thanks SteveAndBelle for supporting my thinking and yes Norton lost the plot some years back.

Have nothing but good words to say about Grisoft but for a total package I just love McA - mind you I send an aweful lot of complaints to various ISP's - seems my wife has told them I need Viagra, Cialis, HGH, Enlargement of the male member and pain relievers not to mention hot tips on stock trades - is there a message there :confused:

Go for it!!!

[barnsey]

Thanks SteveAndBelle for supporting my thinking and yes Norton lost the plot some years back.

Have nothing but good words to say about Grisoft but for a total package I just love McA - mind you I send an aweful lot of complaints to various ISP's - seems my wife has told them I need Viagra, Cialis, HGH, Enlargement of the male member and pain relievers not to mention hot tips on stock trades - is there a message there :confused:

Go for it!!!