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« Last post by wreckedcarzz on December 21, 2007, 03:05 PM »I am here with some impressive news and bragging rights - I have revived the worst computer I have seen to date.
This girl (that I may or may not like...
) in my language arts class has a Toshiba laptop that is reasonably new, but she says "it has like 5 viruses and runs really slow". I figured it would be an easy job so I offered to fix it for her for free. After a couple days of off-and-on chatter about it (during class) she told me her mom would give me $20 for it (so that was initially a good thing, until I started wondering why not for free? what is really wrong with it? and that "uh-oh" feeling you get when you know something is not as it seems). I accepted the job and got the laptop on Thursday (last day of school).
Now, the next day, less than 28 hours after getting the laptop, I have done all of this:
I am personally very proud of myself. The local Circuit City would have charged at least $300 for all of this- and I offered to do it for free. Thats a $280 gain. Man...what a deal...
-Brandon
This girl (that I may or may not like...
) in my language arts class has a Toshiba laptop that is reasonably new, but she says "it has like 5 viruses and runs really slow". I figured it would be an easy job so I offered to fix it for her for free. After a couple days of off-and-on chatter about it (during class) she told me her mom would give me $20 for it (so that was initially a good thing, until I started wondering why not for free? what is really wrong with it? and that "uh-oh" feeling you get when you know something is not as it seems). I accepted the job and got the laptop on Thursday (last day of school).Now, the next day, less than 28 hours after getting the laptop, I have done all of this:
- REMOVED ALMOST 1,100 VIRUS AND SPYWARE ENTRIES
- Cleaned the computer (physically) of gunk (it looked like it had been through war and back)
- Ran SnapSuite on the computer, making it a lot faster (to my surprise; viruses were still lurking on it and it still sped up)
- Updated various programs
- Updated Windows and got IE7
- Installed Firefox and got some useful addons installed
- Ran Spyware Terminator a good 6 or so times (the last scan I ran, Full Virus and Spyware Scan, showed up clean!)
- Running (right now) a confirmation scan via Trend Micro Housecall 6.5
- Changed the background (a virus infected the windows background via Active Desktop
) and fixed the cursors - Uninstalled about 100 (literally) games from the machine that weren't used
- Uninstalled McAfee Security Center and VirusScan that hadn't been used since 10/05
- Turned off 51 out of 58 startup items; some were viruses, some were just junk
- along with some other things
I am personally very proud of myself. The local Circuit City would have charged at least $300 for all of this- and I offered to do it for free. Thats a $280 gain. Man...what a deal...
-Brandon
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) buttons for the downloads, and am going to host the SnapSuite downloader/installer on the Maze Craze domain (so I can leave a permalink on the Incredisims main page).
(Personally, I still use Firefox, but I do open SmartBrowse myself if I am testing new code and need to check something on the web.)
Its driving me mad! I have my variables setup, they submit and then are read and the browser is told to go to that...but...it...doesn't 
Can anyone help? I have a sinking ship, and right now it's not looking so good.