I fianally did it...
By Cortney
@Cortney (3980)
United States
October 31, 2006 9:14am CST
It was driving me absolutely nuts........ Hubby was on the computer last night and somehow he killed the computer. I could not connect to the internet no mater what I did. I was going crazy.. yelling at him.. "If you don't know what it does, don't click it, don't download it, don't do it"He clicked on something, still can't figure out what for...
When he did, it did something to my connection. Thank goodness for backup discs. I tried uninstalling stuff that was recently installed, reinstalling stuff, repairing stuff... finally I gave up and used the back up... Turns out, it was nasty old adware that he click allow on. Firewalls,Antivirus,AntiSpam is all great and up to date.. but when you have someone using your computer that has no clue.. Well... lets just say, he won't be able to get much access to the internet unless I am around.. I hid everything.. all he knows is the click on IE or Firefox.. hehehe ... they are gone... hidden in a folder he would never look in:)
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13 responses
@all_n_one (2003)
• United States
1 Nov 06
That is why windows xp put the rollback feature in for when people have problems they can fix them by basically turning back time.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
1 Nov 06
My hubby doesn't know much about a computer either i have tried to teach him a few times but still he doesn't know much my little 5 year old sister knows more than him lol...are there a way to lock files and folders so they cannot be deleted? that you have to have a password to open it up. he likes to play games and stuff on mine and i tell him about mylot and how addicted i have become i shouldn't be telling him because he will want to get on here and take over my computer but i wouldn't let him have him voice his opinion on mylot because we have way different views on so many things and he'd probably get me into trouble..lol...
@Cortney (3980)
• United States
1 Nov 06
LOL.. hubby didn't know that about the history folder either.. haha.. He doesn't go on any sites he's not allowed to.. I have the parental controls set in case he got any bright ideas.. haha.. he usually just goes on fishing sites, he used one finger to type and it drives me nuts if I am waiting to get on.
thanks for responding
@Lxandra79 (1535)
• United States
1 Nov 06
lol...good thinking...funny story..which i know its tru.
gosh men can be dumb, stubborn pressing everything..huh?
@macubx (11414)
• Philippines
1 Nov 06
uhhm OK, would you give him/her a GUEST account rather? or create Site restrictions...
@Cortney (3980)
• United States
1 Nov 06
It went great. Sky went as a Zombie Cheerleader. Here is a pic of the makeup. Its funny, all the babies on the street we not scared of any costumes and it is their 1st halloween. It was so cute.. my nephew kept trying to wipe off Sky's makeup to see her face.
@amberbambers23 (2615)
• United States
1 Nov 06
Well i'm glad you got your computer working again. HAHA thats so funny that you hid everything!!!!
@hariharan23 (1075)
• India
1 Nov 06
huh , i hate sharing my pc with some even though they are close to me.
@saphire539 (1639)
• United States
31 Oct 06
lol that happens especially when someone gets on the computer and doesn't know what they are doing.My husband has burned up 2 computers already.
@mandakat (879)
• Canada
2 Nov 06
Oh good plan!
Mine asks me though. So if the antivirus or antispam encounters something, it asks me, and I must choose. This can be tedious for even fairly computer-savvy people (I mean... maybe I DO want ie.dl to access my computer... or...?).
You could always get separate log-ins! heehee... then just set the security settings for all of the programs to very secure (requiring passwords etc) and don't give the other log-in administrator status.
@rockbaby (805)
• Lebanon
31 Oct 06
hahah,, thats gr8 that things worked out fine for u!.. that happens sometimes.. i got crazy 2 days ago about the net.. cuz there was lightning and i thought it hit my pc.. cuz the net wouldnt light.. so i took the net wire.. restarted. bla bla.. and it worked after 2 freakin hours.. so yeah it happens hehe
@Cortney (3980)
• United States
31 Oct 06
I swear I was having withdrawls from the internet.. LOL it probably took me a total of 4 hrs going through everything.. cursing up a storm.. banning him from my computer.. now he is going to make dinner tonight .. so I guess I got something out of it.. LOL
Thanks for posting
@mahon73 (18)
• United States
31 Oct 06
I know what you mean. I've been there before. Install a piece of software called SpyBot. Run it periodically to clean up all of the adware that has been downloaded on your computer. I believe SpyBot is free.
