Computer Hygene

December 2, 2007 at 9:23 pm (Links)

No, this time I’m not talking about software. A friend asked me (read ‘my wife’) if I would reconfigure an old computer of theirs so that their kids could play games on it. I gladly accepted (read ‘my wife said sure’)

When I first got the machine, I noticed that it was pretty dirty, so I thought I’d crack the case before I plugged it in – they had been complaining about speed problems also. Well, the machine was dirty, so I closed it back up and set it aside. NaNoWriMo took most of my free time last month, so it sat and waited patiently. To make a long story not quite as long, I have a few machines backed up – Christmas presents mostly, but these were ahead of them, so I decided to start. What I found was…

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