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  • #1

    teachers needed....

    Argh, sort of.

    Last night, I was teaching a family friend on Windows XP. She lives in OR, I live in WA.

    We use Skype to talk to each other (free!) and Tight VNC so I can get into her computer while she's sitting at it.

    She had NO idea how to create folders. What a directory tree is. What a crompt does....What a ..cd does....
    She keeps thinking the officials are out to get her, bit on the paranoid side. (even she admits it).

    Even worse, she's running a 900mh pc w/ 256 mb ram on XP, with a fscked up installation -and no backup disks for it. *headdesk*

    Last night, we were literally going thru some of the basics. Windows Explorer is the shell. Internet explorer is the big blue E.
    Right click and select new > folder to make a folder. Name it.
    Now go thru explorer and see where it lives?

    Use search. How to use search. What is a wild card? What is a JPG? What is a BMP?

    I got the printer reinstalled, explained what the difference is between an uninstall and a straight delete....what is the registry? oi.....

    intense, one on one work..and now her puter starts up much faster. But imo it's still a clunkerbox that I'll take home and use for linux :P

    cutenoob
    In my heart, in my soul, I'm a woman for rock & roll.
    She's as fast as slugs on barbituates.
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    Wait wait wait, she didn't know how to create a folder?
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    • #3
      Correct.
      For the longest time, they have been using the "Recycle Bin" as a holding folder.
      Since they did not know how to create new folders and organize such information, the Recycle Bin WAS the folder of God.

      She's got 3 installs of /windows.....under the C drive. Whomever did the jobbies on her puter before this should be quartered, shot, run over by a bus and at least slapped with a salmon. (he went back to being a karaoke dj.)

      I'm going to bring her my newer clunker ( a 2.4 w/ 512 ram) and do a fresh install of everything.

      Cutenoob
      In my heart, in my soul, I'm a woman for rock & roll.
      She's as fast as slugs on barbituates.

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      • #4
        Quoth Cutenoob View Post
        .....

        She's got 3 installs of /windows.....under the C drive. .....

        Cutenoob
        *shudders* That alone makes my head hurt.

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        • #5
          Quoth Cutenoob View Post
          Correct.
          For the longest time, they have been using the "Recycle Bin" as a holding folder.
          Since they did not know how to create new folders and organize such information, the Recycle Bin WAS the folder of God.
          My now ex-MIL-TB did that with her Outlook Express. I found out AFTER I cleared it out.
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          • #6
            "But they're in the deleted items folder, so I can get them out at any time, right?"

            Comment made by my father when he was doing something very, very stupid. He still doesn't understand why we now do it differently, but at least he does it.

            Rapscallion

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            • #7
              Oh, no, clearly the recycle bin is for all those documents that you are done with so you don't waste any paper. (even though it's on a computer...)
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              • #8
                If it makes you feel any better, since my computer died, I've been stuck with a 500mH, 128mb piece of crap.... Even on good days, it runs slower than my bedridden grandma.
                GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.

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                • #9
                  It could be worse. There's an old 400Mhz Compaq sitting in my closet. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but at least Wolfenstein runs
                  Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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                  • #10
                    That does not hold a candle to my 486dx33 with a whopping 16mb of ram and ~200mb of hard drive storage. Runs well to this day.

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                    • #11
                      Reminds me of the 386 DX ??Mhz machine with the max amount of ram I had running Windows 95. It worked very well, alot better than my dad's 486SX 25Mhz. Those were the days.

                      Quoth Battyone View Post
                      That does not hold a candle to my 486dx33 with a whopping 16mb of ram and ~200mb of hard drive storage. Runs well to this day.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth BravoOrig View Post
                        It worked very well, alot better than my dad's 486SX 25Mhz. Those were the days.

                        I had one of those, bought it used from my Dad, then sold it to my sister when I had a system built.

                        I'm now stuck using my Celeron 667 Mhz, Windows ME clunker of a desktop, while the laptop's in the shop. (Should be done this afternoon). I miss my XP, my Wifi, and I hate dialup. Slow internet, coupled with slow computer makes Sonoma cry.
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                        • #13
                          I've got you all beat! I've got... *dunDUNDUUUUUUN* an ABACUS!
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                          • #14
                            Quoth JustADude View Post
                            I've got you all beat! I've got... *dunDUNDUUUUUUN* an ABACUS!
                            You have an abacus? I don't have an abacus. I have a knotted rope!
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                            1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                            2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                            3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                            4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Seshat View Post
                              You have an abacus? I don't have an abacus. I have a knotted rope!
                              Pfft. I've got some loose hairs and a pile of pebbles.

                              Not that I have any clue how to use it...
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