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bentech wrote:want to upgrade the memory but ive no idea how much Ive got now and what type it will take
don't even know the model, just that its an hp

couldn't find anything while poking around in the icon at the bottom left

did discover it has a dvd-rw drive!
didn't realize that; assumed it didn't have any drive
but knowing it does now, and since its not a cromebook it will need maintainance. how do I strip the system down and them make a disc so that I can do clean installs?
micrsoft moved away from providing an installation disc for a clean install. now they want ya to network (moving to the online cloud installing and bullshit pay-per-use).
Because of MS's and apple's greed over user usability, Deran is right linux is the inevitable solution. resistance is futile.

Ya could always call up MS tech support and ask for help. or even an installation disk. :roflmao:

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I'd deffo find someone more computer savvy to have a look at it in person.
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ive found now that if I'm just more patient it will eventually wake up every time

10 years ago I bought a quad processor with vista and ran it into the ground,
no maintainance
next I had a cromebook that did fine until it didn't wake up a couple months back

ive no idea what responsible care of a windows machine is anymore
I cant even get around in windows anymore, no idea whats what

but its complaining about my free demo of mckafree expiring now
mabe I should watch the tutorial that came with it...
if I can find it
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download

avast its free and ive not had any viruses or any other strange sgit happening to my laptop since i installed it

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here a story of my short time room mate (wanted to sleep 2 to 3 nights, and lasted for 6 weeks)

anyways, he got a laptop, his very first puter in his life, a total noob, had it only for 2 or 3 months ....

it was fucking up anything you wanted to use it for, so i attached my usb stick, booted up linux as a live system and ran an anti virus software (clamAV) only to find it had a ton of malware installed, more than 30 viruses ... just bc he (the idiot he is) clicked on anything that popped up, bc he was watching movies online, either a stream or as a live download .... i gave my best to erase most of them, but 10 couldnt be killed .... my solution was to format the disk, and restore his data that he had. like personal pics ....
2 days later, i found out, he restored the viruses and all shit ...

so i had to cut down the router access, bc the idiot he is, he didnt understood that his machine is a threat to the whole network - nope idiot, no inet for you


what i want to say

ppl are victims of their own behavior, they cant think outside of the box and a movie for jerking is much more important than security ... well, still today ppl fuck hookers without rubbers, and havent learned a thing

step by step, knowledge wont come over night only by lessons


ben, do yourself a favor and install a parallel linux distro, for your own saftey

a buddy of mine said once:
windows costs nervs
linux costs time
apple costs money

take care
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this sucks
month ago the internet was our for a day. got me digging around on this computer and found a game. I liked it but didn't think to open it again until just the other day

and it tells me that id played my free trail and would have to buy it to continue

sigh...


i suppose there are free games available somewhere
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An old trick is to reset yer 'puter clock to a few week or even a year back to fool the crippleware demoware. altho this is known hack, and is easily thwarted it still often works.

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Intrinsic wrote:An old trick is to reset yer 'puter clock to a few week or even a year back to fool the crippleware demoware. altho this is known hack, and is easily thwarted it still often works.

yeah

or to take out the battery (if possible) from the mainboard , as long they dont have a battery/memory buffer ... that ive seen on modern main boards ....

some further hack is to cut the power on the needed things, this can be some scary shit, like there was a hack for some games, where you had to pull out the power connector on the harddrive - while using the puter - to bypass some intern routines, and by that you could use the software

plz dont dont do it, its a so called last method - as i crashed also 2 harddrives doing it, but - yes - but it was my fault as the drives had a bit of their board lurking open, with other words i made a short circuit on it, wear gloves ... i will ... lol
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ive noticed IE is intermittently unresponsive in 10

and whats with videos auto playing when you load a page with one. is there a preference that would prevent that from happening?
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a good bet it a buried and cryptic. but i don't know 10 or likely ever be able to afford to , i'm still stuck on Xp (safest win version) and linux

And IE (ugggg!) Chrome is a bit bloat, but intuitive and reasonable secure (for google). no one ever said were sorry for leaving IE


I always think of the book 'Burning Chrome' when i say chrome fwiw

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