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[Closed] You've moved the icons [you bastard]!

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Upgraded my mum's computer after she complained about the speed... made it blindingly fast and doesn't take 15 minutes to log in anymore (looking at you, Vista) . The response? A shouting match about how the desktop icons (Word, Internet Explorer, and Outlook) weren't in the same places as usual.

So it's now back the way it was... hard disk like a ruddy bomb site. Even OneCare collapsed trying to back it up. Dunno why I bothered. Email's being forwarded through Google Apps for a partial backup, but that's it.

24000 photos scattered all across the disk? "HOW DARE YOU TRY TO MOVE THEM, I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE!" I predict crocodile tears if the computer is ever stolen / breaks.

My advice? Don't ever try to help.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 9:58 am
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Your mum sounds really nice.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:01 am
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Your Mum's an idiot and I feel sorry for you.

Don't ever help her again or you'll get slapped. Now go for a ride and relax.

It's not you its her... ๐Ÿ˜† Is she married? I feel sorry for the bloke.
If she's single-no suprise.

Stop visiting her at the mental hospital and offering to fix the pc.

Go ride your bike lad!


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:13 am
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Did your mum actually call you a bastard, If so that's extremely harsh, I couldn't imagine my parents speaking to me like that.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:16 am
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Did your mum actually call you a bastard

presumably she'd be in a better position than anyone to know?


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:17 am
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She is really nice. She just hates the computer... even more so if something changes on it.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:18 am
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She is really nice

Sounds it.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:20 am
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No, of course she didn't call me a bastard. ๐Ÿ™‚

Just emphasis on my part.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:24 am
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This is quite old, but just in case you have not seen it ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Episode 1 ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:39 am
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Thats why you want to consult people while fixing things, rather than just doing it how you do your own ๐Ÿ™‚ I know how everyone else lays out their files/icons/apps etc drives me ****ing nuts, I'm sure my methods would annoy others!


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:41 am
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No she's just crazy.


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 10:52 am
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why did you have to move the icons on/from the desktop ?

If you cared, you'd have moved all the pictures to one file but replaced them with shortcuts in all the random places, so your poor old mum could find them ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

mind, 24 THOUSAND photos - is your mum really SFB ??


 
Posted : 29/06/2009 11:06 am