bigugli Posted May 22, 2022 Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 Da Smerch is offline and incommunicata for the next couple of days. Seems he finally hit the little red button and things went "PooF" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 I was wondering why he didn’t get back to me this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbocco Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Is he OK? Does the little red button mean he exploded his computer? Davidp16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 7 hours ago, Mbocco said: Is he OK? Does the little red button mean he exploded his computer? Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 7 hours ago, Mbocco said: Is he OK? Does the little red button mean he exploded his computer? Thanks for posting Bruce . My pc went beserk & I could not get on line ....desktop icons were all there but I could only get my picture folder . My Picasa pic.file was dead but I could get my home page (Google) . When I tried to open a web site a large box came up and said my clock/date was out of sync to allow any access to the www..AND my clock/date at the bottom corner said 2/20/1602 as the date ! I tried for hours to follow the instructions to change the clock & got as far as 1980 to start advancing every month & year but I thought that would take hours to get to 2022 . So I bought a new HP laptop & new mouse . It has windows 10 . I am completely in the dark with this new toy...... Enter Dave , my son in law .....gets on my old pc and starts advancing the clock/date starting at 1980 . He held the advance button down for about 10 min. & it suddenly jumped to 2000 ,then quickly to todays date &time . I got everything back including my Picasa pictures . Dave is a wizz. at putes & cell phones ! Then he spent an hour or so setting up my new lapper . ...had to put in some codes , & get hooked up to wifi . He brought a blue tooth speaker with him that looks like a large lantern that has a moving light going with the music . ...very impressive sound & can shake the house down ! I have a lot to learn ..., will try to set it up for easy acess to my web sites a little each day . This pc can blow up anytime so I am downloading some of my 1000 pictures ....deleted about 500 today , will keep about 10% or less on the flash drive . I'll keep using this old relic until it blows up the house as it's so easy to navigate compared to windows 10 . Cheers Bubba14 and Davidp16 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 35 minutes ago, smerchly said: Thanks for posting Bruce . My pc went beserk & I could not get on line ....desktop icons were all there but I could only get my picture folder . My Picasa pic.file was dead but I could get my home page (Google) . When I tried to open a web site a large box came up and said my clock/date was out of sync to allow any access to the www..AND my clock/date at the bottom corner said 2/20/1602 as the date ! I tried for hours to follow the instructions to change the clock & got as far as 1980 to start advancing every month & year but I thought that would take hours to get to 2022 . So I bought a new HP laptop & new mouse . It has windows 10 . I am completely in the dark with this new toy...... Enter Dave , my son in law .....gets on my old pc and starts advancing the clock/date starting at 1980 . He held the advance button down for about 10 min. & it suddenly jumped to 2000 ,then quickly to todays date &time . I got everything back including my Picasa pictures . Dave is a wizz. at putes & cell phones ! Then he spent an hour or so setting up my new lapper . ...had to put in some codes , & get hooked up to wifi . He brought a blue tooth speaker with him that looks like a large lantern that has a moving light going with the music . ...very impressive sound & can shake the house down ! I have a lot to learn ..., will try to set it up for easy acess to my web sites a little each day . This pc can blow up anytime so I am downloading some of my 1000 pictures ....deleted about 500 today , will keep about 10% or less on the flash drive . I'll keep using this old relic until it blows up the house as it's so easy to navigate compared to windows 10 . Cheers Nice to see you’re ok and back at it smerch. You’ll get use to the new computer. smerchly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 4 minutes ago, Tyler0420 said: Nice to see you’re ok and back at it smerch. You’ll get use to the new computer. Thanks Tyler , I may not have a hair left on my head by the time I'm friends with that lapper . It doesn't even use Google ! Hopefully I can save some of my special pics. from Picasa which has no support now. Any chances you may do another run here this week ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 8 hours ago, smerchly said: Thanks Tyler , I may not have a hair left on my head by the time I'm friends with that lapper . It doesn't even use Google ! Hopefully I can save some of my special pics. from Picasa which has no support now. Any chances you may do another run here this week ? I’m not sure when I’ll be fishing again. I’ll msg you though when I come that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbocco Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 That’s a great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Just now, Mbocco said: That’s a great story! Thanks .... my high school history teacher said I had a great imagination as I made up my own history facts & figures .....and failed the exams ... My pc is feeling fine today except for the clock . I believe it's a cookoo clock as the date /time didn't change from yesterday . ( I can live with that ! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genec Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Bill, I learned a long time ago to always have at least one more backup hard drive in my computer, and copy all files I want to keep to it on a regular basis. its not a case of IF the drive or computer will die, its just WHEN its going to happen! Many years ago I put a new hard drive in my computer, spent 6 days installing Windows and all my software, and a week later the new drive failed - had to install another drive and start installing everything all over again. Learn my lesson after that happened! I upgraded my computer a year ago when Microsoft quit supporting Windows 7 Professional, and went whole hog on the new one - 4 hard drives in it. My main drive is a 1 terrabyte chip on the motherboard, and the other 3 are solid state hard drives. I even had the computer store set it up as a RAID system where the computer constantly backs everything up automatically to one of the solid state drives all the time, and I still back up important files to the other 2 drives on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisb Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Every 4-5 months, depending on how many things have upgraded, I make a complete image of my hard drive on a different hard drive using a boot USB stick I have made. That way I can restore my system on a new hard drive if needed or I go somewhere that infects my drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbocco Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 My crap saves to the cloud which I assume is fully available to governments around the world including our own. But oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 4 hours ago, genec said: Bill, I learned a long time ago to always have at least one more backup hard drive in my computer, and copy all files I want to keep to it on a regular basis. its not a case of IF the drive or computer will die, its just WHEN its going to happen! Many years ago I put a new hard drive in my computer, spent 6 days installing Windows and all my software, and a week later the new drive failed - had to install another drive and start installing everything all over again. Learn my lesson after that happened! I upgraded my computer a year ago when Microsoft quit supporting Windows 7 Professional, and went whole hog on the new one - 4 hard drives in it. My main drive is a 1 terrabyte chip on the motherboard, and the other 3 are solid state hard drives. I even had the computer store set it up as a RAID system where the computer constantly backs everything up automatically to one of the solid state drives all the time, and I still back up important files to the other 2 drives on a regular basis. This is wayyyy beyond my puter capabilities Gene . If I was 50 years younger , I may get more involved . I like using Google as it's simple to use & I like the layout . My new lapper is going to take a long time to figure out until I can load up the desktop with my favourites like fishing sites, news, you tube , weather , etc 1 hour ago, Mbocco said: My crap saves to the cloud which I assume is fully available to governments around the world including our own. But oh well. Cloud came up on my laptop this a.m. and asked me to read their offer , and I may get to that later , after I get Dave back to go through some apps in slow motion . I can now understand why there are so many people with mental problems ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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