Just spent the evening linking up my sister's old laptop to the new wireless broadband connection in my parents' house...
HOLY CRAP!! My dad is now officially a silver surfer!
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Just spent the evening linking up my sister's old laptop to the new wireless broadband connection in my parents' house...
HOLY CRAP!! My dad is now officially a silver surfer!
And your fun has just begun. Giving a cast off to my father a couple of years back has resulted in a dreaded phrase whenever I visit of "Oh, while your here......"
A couple of hours later I continue to rue the day I passed the PC on.
In September 1937I bought my wifea new electric wireless for
8s 6d. She's still using it every day & it's never needed repair!
Keith is right. You will be maintaining this daily for the rest of your life.
My father is a scientist himself and reasonably capable in general, but I have had this sort of ongoing computer maintainance issue for years now. An item of kit will work perfectly for us for months and install fine when I am there, but a week later will develop some strange and intermittant error which will then take hours to track down over the phone. I think he has some sort of printer curse. He could make a fortune selling his services to HP to hang around large office buildings condemming them to buying hundreds of new printers when the old ones spontaneously break!
Tell me about it.
I am already painfully familiar with said laptop, having spent large chunks of the last three years trying to undo all the mess my sister had created on it - with limited success.
Why do people load crap onto PCs?