You are master of your computer, or share it with all your family?
By icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
Romania
January 17, 2010 8:33am CST
I am master of my computer, i can use it when i have free time, in special in weekend or in the end of the day, after work, when i am not very tired.
Few weeks ago, my sister come in visit and stay in my home one month, and of course that she use my computer, my desk top, and i use just my laptop when she was here in visit.
I want to say that now my computer is like a cabbage, i mean she put here photos, download a lot of "nice" imagines, who bring in my computer a viruses army; now i must fight with all this viruses, and is not to easy.
I just want to say, that i hate when somebody use my computer, when i open a site and come other 10 sites after, when i enter in my documents and i find there what she put there.
Music? i have all hip hop songs who she find to net;
Movies? you don t want to know what kind of movies she download.
So you use your computer alone, or you share it with somebody from your family, or maybe with all family? in the morning wife, in the day time husband, and in night son or doughter? i am sure that is a real fight there to find a window to use your computer...
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38 responses
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
17 Jan 10
My Laptop is mine and as I live alone I don't have to share it, when my Daughter comes to stay she will use it but I have all the security on here and also she would never download anything without asking me first so I do not have that Problem at all and your Sister should respect and take more care with your Computer
@Jhaycee1987 (94)
• Philippines
18 Jan 10
Maybe you can also share your computer with her but tell her to take care of it since you entrusted it with her. You must install an antivirus in your computer by the way to minimize viruses.. The net is the source of a lot of viruses..You may also advice her to buy her own flash drive and save her files if you dont want it there in your computer.Its always nice to share anything you have with someone
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
17 Jan 10
Hi, icesmile. I share this laptop with my husband and I sometimes can't be on the laptop as long as I would like to. My son and daughters also watch cartoons on this laptop since we don't have an T.V. for them. We all have to look at movies on this laptop. I am glad that my husband never downloads anything that will mess up this laptop. I never have to go through this with him. Whatever he does on this laptop, it is never to harm the software or files of this laptop. He is the sole administrator of this laptop. I am sorry that your sister came over and used your computer and messed up your system. I hope that you are able to regain your files back to where it once was before.
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@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
17 Jan 10
Hi Cream. i am sorry that you don t have a tv, for kids, they really need for cartoons; is hard to use same laptop, i am sure that i am lucky, i have laptop and desktop too, but now i have just laptop, just because my sister is so ..silly and don t know that what is mine, is mine; i need an antivirus to clean all "gifts" from her.
@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
17 Jan 10
Hi there Ice Smile
When i was younger and my brother was living with me we only had the desktop computer and we had to fight over it / share it. With time he moved out, my dad got a laptop and now my mom works a lot on the desktop computer. Truth be told, i only have some music left on the desktop computer, in other words i kind of been exiled to the laptop, even if me and my brother invested a lot of money in the desktop computer (which now is the value of a junk... but that's not the point, is it).
On the laptop i am usually the one to use it, and only on special occasions does my brother or mom comes to use it.
The ones that use it more often than my brother and mom are my dad, if i am not at home, and mom is using the desktop computer and my girlfriend (which is at the moment playing an online game, but i don't mind as her computer is in service after a burnout of the power source).
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@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
17 Jan 10
Hi, before my sons move on, i had in my house 3 desktops and a laptop; you can imagine? My bill for electricity, was huge ll the time.
Now, i am master of my desktop and laptop too, but is hard because i miss my son when i need to fix my computer; even they come in the end of the week, i really miss all answers about computers who only my elder son can answer to me.
Now i ll wait him, to fix my problem with viruses, who my sister left me as gifts.
I ll never let somebody use my computer for sure
en come in visit to me.
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
17 Jan 10
i guess your right, that is awful, we have a desktop and a laptop, but we also have 3 kids, just imagine our situation, and to add, my wife is a farmville fanatic. I have a solution to your problem, if you want things to get back how you left them, you need to install Deep Freeze software, Check out my discussion about Deep freeze. the name of the discussion Is anybody having second thoughts on their antivirus.
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@bournecaindelta (2477)
• India
17 Jan 10
I am the master of my computer. I own two. One a desktop and the other a laptop. I usually work on both of them simultaneously and do not allow anybody else to touch it. If I'm at home, nobody else dare touch my computer cos they get good from me. I also have the same problem. My sister keeps downloading these stupid games which bring all the viruses and since I do a lot of personal work, I have the risk of being hacked and what not. So I have told her to stay away from the computer.
bourne
@yugasini (12893)
• Secunderabad, India
17 Jan 10
hi icesmile,
that is common,if some attend our laptop or desktop they fill the system with all garbage,we have clean it,when some body came to your home with children they do some things in your home,after they have gone from your home you are cleaning your home,just like that you have to clean your laptop/desktop like that,have a nice dya
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
17 Jan 10
hi ice,
i wish i am, but everyone uses our only one desktop computer. my daughter uses it for backlogs and reports in the office, my granddaughter for her assignments and researches, my son in law for games.. and myself for chats and mylot.
only problem is the time limit of each. usually i end up the the one waiting all the time.
ann
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@Lucky09 (1763)
• Philippines
17 Jan 10
hi icesmile^^;;
it's all mine LoL!
i've no one to share with...
when i was still living with my parents, my father didn't know how to use before when i only had the desktop. but when my desktop goes slow, i bought a new laptop and gave the desktop to him to practice. before that, my younger cousin used to live with me in the apartment and she used the desktop as well. yes she download stuffs but save it to her memory stick and i put another username for her so she cannot mess up with my files and documents.
i've no one to share with...
when i was still living with my parents, my father didn't know how to use before when i only had the desktop. but when my desktop goes slow, i bought a new laptop and gave the desktop to him to practice. before that, my younger cousin used to live with me in the apartment and she used the desktop as well. yes she download stuffs but save it to her memory stick and i put another username for her so she cannot mess up with my files and documents.1 person likes this
@good2go2001 (915)
• United States
17 Jan 10
I am lucky i have a computer i used just for myself and then couple other computers in the house that are for other family memebers. Everyone in the house knows the golden rule you dont touch moms computer. I use my computer for business and so i cant run the risk of them messing it up. I keep the keyboard locked every time i leave my computer just incase. I also have norton go back which i love because if there ever was an issue its very easy to revert the hard drive to a safe point and not lose totally everything ive worked so hard to achieve.
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@mcdreamy25 (74)
• Philippines
17 Jan 10
you should have the best antivirus around if you can't have your computer all to yourself..
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
19 Jan 10
No I am not the the master of the computer, in fact it's not even my computer. I usually use my girlfriends computer so I would have to say that she's the master of the computer but luckily for me she's a sweetheart and shares everything with me. Without her computer I would be missing out on some money because I do quite a bit of online earning.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
20 Jan 10
We are currently running two desktop computers and we also have two laptop computers in our house as well. My daughter actually also has a desktop of her own but we can't set it up for her right now because she won't get her room cleaned up. All of that said, my computer belongs to me and I really don't like for someone else to use my computer at all. My husband doesn't use his computer nearly as much as I do so his computer serves as the more community computer in our house.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jan 10
Hiya icesmile,
Have to say that it is not mine it is a shared one with my Husband who does not care too much for me writing away on here and surfing well he has to work on here so that´s logical he does´nt need me on here taking up his time. So I try to fit it in bits and pieces here and there otherwise if I try to stick to a timetable with him around I would go slightly nuts.
@alwaysgreat5 (248)
• India
18 Jan 10
My pc i all mine i don't share it with anyone as my father has a laptop and my brother also has a laptop and my mom doesn't use computer at all
