just finished a 3-4 hour clean/reinstall on a friends computer. He had a terrible virus what wouldn't let him load ANYTHING. I had to reinstall windows (the easy part) but.... he has a Gateway!!!! You know how gateway is that sometimes they give you everythign but sometimes they don't (driver wise). Well, i had to go the driver site and download a butt load of drivers from my computer and load them on his and back and forth and back and forth. Anyway, the point of the question is:
whats the longest you've spent "fixing" a computer??
and
give me the biggest/bestest whoopie you can think of.
Best whoopiee and answer gets 10 points.
2006-09-16 13:40:09 · 7 answers · asked by vail2073 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
my longest was ten days and at the end of those tendays my biggest whoopie was sumb*tch,sumb*tch i finally got yo sorry *ss. who's the man;who's the man.this was some easy sh*t woooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooo
2006-09-16 13:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by tanyahurt76 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I stay up all night one night trying to figure out how to get a auto dial-up off my mom Computer. Boy that wasn't any fun if you know what I mean. The catch is knowing which file belong where and which don't because virus like to hide, duclicate and regenerate if you know what I mean. You remove one file and another two will appear in another file. Then you have to find all of them and then restart you computer without getting the wrong one...
2006-09-16 13:50:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biggest/bestest(sic) whoopie was when I removed a badly written, insecure, bloated carcass of a program called Windows from my computer and 'fixed' it by installing Linux. Since then the only screw-ups have been MY doing, and mine alone. No spyware, no virii, no WGA, no worries.
http://distrowatch.com
2006-09-16 13:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't fix a computer; my dad and his co-workers did since they're engineers. Of course, I was panicking because ALL of my files were on there, including my videos (4 gigs), manga, songs, pictures, all of which took me years to amass! Of course, at the end of it all (a week without my personal computer *cries*), they deemed my computer DEAD because every time they turned it on, it'd just freeze and shut down. *sigh* Of course, my dad was able to save ALL of my files from the hard drive onto my new external USB 100 gigs hard drive, Zippo... (that's right! I named my hard drive! You got a problem with that!?! Well, too bad!) So all's good... and my collection managed to multiply quite a bit after I learned how to use IRC... *smiles* Sooo much mangaaa.... like, 10 gigs worth now and still growing! Hehe...
2006-09-16 14:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was smart and made an image of the drive before anything went wrong. When it did, I just restored the image.
2006-09-16 13:53:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i spent lots time on that mother try git the anti virus crap and spy war eoff it no good man i gettum apple next mf time no micrsoft not no one more time hell ye3ah
2006-09-16 13:42:51 · answer #6 · answered by chip33302 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um...WHOOPIEEE!!!
Now don't you think its time to get off of the computer?
2006-09-16 13:48:02 · answer #7 · answered by cricket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋