Wife says her computer is acting slow, and keeps getting a pop up that wont go away...

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

I was just going to suggest that. Norton Ghost 2003 + updates = customized restore disc with OS, updates, apps, and settings on DVD.

 

[Adul]

avg free works well and will scan daily and auto update daily. no brainer there.

and firefox 🙂

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: Allen Iverson

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: jupiter57

Originally posted by: Kaido
Do yourselves both a favor...buy her a Mac! I've had nearly zero maintenance issues after I got my wife one 😀

Or at least use Firefox or Opera!
Been using Firefox for ~3 years now, I have maybe 3-4 spywares or Trojsns a month, AVG cleans 'em out for me automatically.

but...but....but Firefox prevents all spyware and viruses and adds 3 inches to your penis size!

QFT (especially the 3 inches😀)

Since this is ATOT so I will have to say 15 inches 😀

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: SagaLore
boobypants?

She has both boobys and wears the pants? 😀 :laugh:

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Run her as a Limited User.

Thats her pc, this time around, guess I will have to put on some firewall protection and alot better virus program. I thought she would be better then the kids when I tell her the pop up ad crap is filled with spy ware, and other stuff and she would listen to me, she going to get a earfull from me when she comes home from work 🙂

Damn kids, er, I mean wife, its no wonder we dont live as long as them.

Theres a better anti-virus then kaspersky?

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: leftyman
So your wife is into porn? Cool! 😀

Hell yes she is, and she dont care if I look at it, or other women, just as long as I come back to her. I have a kick ass wife 🙂.

Damn, you win.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

I was just going to suggest that. Norton Ghost 2003 + updates = customized restore disc with OS, updates, apps, and settings on DVD.

I have to took into this of which you two speak of. So I redo the pc, put in my apps, games, what have you and all, run the ghost thing, it will put a something or other on one dvd or make several dvd's, then if the pc goes complowie I slap in in the dvd drive and it will auto fix the hdd back to when I made the dvd?

It cannot be that easy with out a catch and jumping through a ton of hoops, making it just as hard as redoing it and starting from scratch. I tried something like this years ago, wanted me to make like 15-20 cds, dvds wasn't in at the time, and it took forever and was a total PITA, why I never looked at the crap again. Just turned out to be easier for me to do what I been doing.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Run her as a Limited User.

Thats her pc, this time around, guess I will have to put on some firewall protection and alot better virus program. I thought she would be better then the kids when I tell her the pop up ad crap is filled with spy ware, and other stuff and she would listen to me, she going to get a earfull from me when she comes home from work 🙂

Damn kids, er, I mean wife, its no wonder we dont live as long as them.

Theres a better anti-virus then kaspersky?

Well I will be honest, till now she hasnt had one on there, thought she was listening to me, and all she was doing, I thought, was looking at emails, walmart.com, and ebay. Well she caught something good. Back from the doctors and about to go get her pc done, this time around going to make it like mine is set up, I haven't gotten anything in a very long time.

 

[Krazy4Real]

LMAO @ boobypants!!!

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Roguestar

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: leftyman
So your wife is into porn? Cool! 😀

Hell yes she is, and she dont care if I look at it, or other women, just as long as I come back to her. I have a kick ass wife 🙂.

Damn, you win.

I should also say I can say and do what I want pretty much when I want, if I want to go to the nudie bar, I can, if I wanted to go out all night and hang out I could, if I wanted to pack my things tonight and go up to Chicago to see my friends for 2 weeks, she would let me, and I wouldn't get one bit of slack for any of it. We have a very trusting relationship, hell later today when she comes home I will show her this thread, she prolly hit me up side the head, tell me im an idiot, then give me some lovin.

I truly do have one of the best wifes, girls, I have ever dated in my life, and what I said goes the other way, and let her do the same, and have full trust in her as she does in me. There is not one girl I have dated before her that would put up with my lifestyle, my way of being, acting, and the crap we have been through between being laid off many jobs, living in nice home, forced into going into a trailer, then getting hurt going on welfare, and having to pick up the slack taking care of me and my two boys.

If there was ever a best wife award to be given out I would make damn sure my wife would win it, because she sure as hell deserves it for everything she has had to put up with, and has pretty much let most of it ride off her like no big deal, I will step up and take care of it, you, and everything else, bring it on. There is no one else on this earth like her and even though I may say stuff like I say up above about her, its mainly just to get a rise out of her, for she knows I love her to death, and if I didnt do this then there is something wrong. Im actually looking forward to her coming home and giving her crap about this 🙂

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

I was just going to suggest that. Norton Ghost 2003 + updates = customized restore disc with OS, updates, apps, and settings on DVD.

I have to took into this of which you two speak of. So I redo the pc, put in my apps, games, what have you and all, run the ghost thing, it will put a something or other on one dvd or make several dvd's, then if the pc goes complowie I slap in in the dvd drive and it will auto fix the hdd back to when I made the dvd?

It cannot be that easy with out a catch and jumping through a ton of hoops, making it just as hard as redoing it and starting from scratch. I tried something like this years ago, wanted me to make like 15-20 cds, dvds wasn't in at the time, and it took forever and was a total PITA, why I never looked at the crap again. Just turned out to be easier for me to do what I been doing.

Trust me, I use ghost and it's simply that easy. It's especially time-consuming when you're building DVRs (so many things can go wrong).

As soon as I get the OS installed, I ghost it. Then I start with the drivers, ghost it. Afterwards, I start installing the applications, ghost it. Finally, I'll customize the settings and create a master ghost image.

If I detect any issues, I just restore back (don't ever use windows system restore! That POS deleted a bunch of files from my external HDD)

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

I was just going to suggest that. Norton Ghost 2003 + updates = customized restore disc with OS, updates, apps, and settings on DVD.

I have to took into this of which you two speak of. So I redo the pc, put in my apps, games, what have you and all, run the ghost thing, it will put a something or other on one dvd or make several dvd's, then if the pc goes complowie I slap in in the dvd drive and it will auto fix the hdd back to when I made the dvd?

It cannot be that easy with out a catch and jumping through a ton of hoops, making it just as hard as redoing it and starting from scratch. I tried something like this years ago, wanted me to make like 15-20 cds, dvds wasn't in at the time, and it took forever and was a total PITA, why I never looked at the crap again. Just turned out to be easier for me to do what I been doing.

Trust me, I use ghost and it's simply that easy. It's especially time-consuming when you're building DVRs (so many things can go wrong).

As soon as I get the OS installed, I ghost it. Then I start with the drivers, ghost it. Afterwards, I start installing the applications, ghost it. Finally, I'll customize the settings and create a master ghost image.

If I detect any issues, I just restore back (don't ever use windows system restore! That POS deleted a bunch of files from my external HDD)

I will have to look into this for my computers, and my wife and kids as well. If it is that easy as you say, then I may be able to lift my rule a bit, but not tell them. Still make it out to be a huge deal, but not be ever again, that would be sweet for me 🙂

 

[ColdFusion718]

For example, yesterday when I installed some application which totally screwed up my media center PC, I booted up with a ghost CD and told it to restore to my OS drive using the image I created last week. This literally took under 5 minutes. It took ghost about 2 minutes to write the data and the other 3 minutes was booting and me double- and triple-checking that I was restoring to the correct drive.

It may take a bit longer if you're restoring from CDs/DVDs (15 minutes, tops for a slow reader). Image creation takes more time if you use compression and it's also dependent on how much data you have. I takes about 20 minutes to ghost a drive which has around 10 gigs of data using "high compression."

 

[Doodoo]

I do this with all my pc's. Especially my gf's and my sis's since they always screw something up. I do the same as someone before me said...make an image right after an OS install, one with drivers, and one with apps installed. I can then choose how far back I want. I also keep the images on a dvd and also a separate partition on the hard drive. I'll allocate about 2-3 for the partition and i'll usually reimage from those partitions. It makes it a bit quicker and I don't have to go hunting around for the image cd's. I also prefer DriveImage to Ghost...though our helpdesk at work uses Ghost. Norton may have also bought out DriveImage....

 

[Q]

LOL, I was about to say, I don't think you want your wife seeing "Boobypants" popping up all over the place

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: Quintox
LOL, I was about to say, I don't think you want your wife seeing "Boobypants" popping up all over the place

Why? She wont care.

 

[rml]

You should be thankful that you have anti-virus program installed.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Thats Nothing. At an institute I went to, some guy came to me because his computer Crashed constantly, and 90% of the time wouldn't boot up at all. After 30 minutes trying to get the thing to stay stable for about 30 seconds, I managed to install the Mcafee Command Line Anti Virus because the computer was nowhere NEAR stable enough to stay on for a normal virus scan.

I run it, and As soon as enter start, The entire screen is filled with the names of viruses and trojans.

I managed to get 13,000.

Second time around 3,000

Third time 500

4th Times about 30

Then I went in, installed Anti Vir, and the Anti Vir got about 30.

I never managed to fix it. Though it was stable enough to retrieve his notes.

Too bad there was no Windows CD anywhere within a 30 mile radius.

 

[GoingUp]

why is her login name boobypants?

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: funboy42
Im just going to wipe that sucker clean, and start a new. I dont like cleaning anything, dont trust it. A fresh wipe out and re-install is the only way I do it.

You might want to invest in a copy of Ghost afterwards. Will make having to do this again take a mere 10 minutes.

I was just going to suggest that. Norton Ghost 2003 + updates = customized restore disc with OS, updates, apps, and settings on DVD.

I have to took into this of which you two speak of. So I redo the pc, put in my apps, games, what have you and all, run the ghost thing, it will put a something or other on one dvd or make several dvd's, then if the pc goes complowie I slap in in the dvd drive and it will auto fix the hdd back to when I made the dvd?

It cannot be that easy with out a catch and jumping through a ton of hoops, making it just as hard as redoing it and starting from scratch. I tried something like this years ago, wanted me to make like 15-20 cds, dvds wasn't in at the time, and it took forever and was a total PITA, why I never looked at the crap again. Just turned out to be easier for me to do what I been doing.

Acronis TrueImage 10 + external USB hard drive FTW! Same type of restore protection, you can boot from a CD to restore without having to use the infected system, and it is many times over faster than Ghost.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Some people are simply too stupid to own computers. Sell it and buy her a checkers set.