tech support – Shannon Kay

fixing that computer

Here I am at my parents’ house fixing my sister’s old computer. They finally got their network back up, but this computer is beyond messed up. I’m even having trouble getting it to boot from a windows disc. I cleaned up the startup programs. tons of spyware junk, I’m sure. Then I was finally able to get My Computer open and started to run windows setup.

I reformatted the partition, and am now successfully(so far) installing windows. Sometimes a machine is too far gone to be much helped by running virus and spyware scans and any other thing you could do, and you just have to start over. Reformat. Reinstall the OS.
Here’s a link that has some helpful tips for fixing up a computer:
How to fix Mom’s computer

Windows Install from Hallifax

My aunt bought Windows XP for her computer. I had agreed to go over to her place this morning around 10:00 and install it for her. I thought that this would be easy since I’ve installed Windows XP at least 10 times. Is it really possible to be sore from a computer upgrade?
I went over there all ready to do the install and get things set up. She had one old hard drive which was her boot drive and was only like 7 or 12 GB and another newer 60gb drive installed as the slave. I thought that the old drive would be too old and small, and so I decided I would just install it on the 60gb and set up the old one as a slave so she could get her files off of it.
You’ve probably figured out from the title that this did not go quite as planned.