Life of my mothers PC [D9]

Posted by Daniel-Dane on Dec. 8, 2006, 10:33 a.m.

Life of my mothers PC

The story goes chronological:

I sit down in front of the PC. I turn on the moniter and hear it's buzzing sound while it slowly warms up. I turn on the old and greyish speakers, god I hate the look of them. I then bend down to turn on the PC, I hit the button and the first that strikes me is the sound. Like when an airplane start it's engines, it's the cooler thing in the back. No, I don't know it's name, and it is loud as hell. It's has just passed the machine check and I've heard the little confirming beep from the tower. I then see a flash of the Win Me logo before the screen turn black. I see the little white blinking underscore, finally Windows pops up.

I wait a few second before I see the taskbar pop up. A few more second… The desktop turns up with all it's glory and icons. A few seconds more, background programs starting. ZoneAlarm, AVG Free, Portblocker … Just a few more seconds to cool down… *BLING*! Screen turns black, no reaction from mouse/keyboard, speakers silenced…

I then hold down the power button in 5 seconds, the computer turns off, 2 more seconds, turning it on. Seeing my whole life pass in review. Windows again, waiting for programs to start up. Two more seconds … *BLING*! <__<… Over again, *BLING*! Over again … *BLING*! For gods christ (should that be capitalized?)! Fifth time it succeded, I waited a few more seconds to just feel the power from the computer run through me. It's alive!… Finally.

I slowly but surely move the mouse towards the little fox that holds the globe in its hollow hand. *Click-Click*. Five seconds, window pops up. Firefox initiated. Clicks "Log On", waiting yet another second. Click "Game Maker Comm…" in the Bookmark bar. Waiting. Clicks my name, clicks "Find members topics" … Waiting again. No replies. Searching the novice forum for any interessting topic, nothing. Advanced forum, nothing. 3D, skipped. Expert, tsa05 have replied, *replying back*. What now? Looking in extending, nothing. Creations, nothing. WIP, nothing. Skipping the rest. Looking in Community, oh new locked topics, *Reading them, having a laugh*. What now? *Clicking "AwesomeSoft" in the bookmarks bar*. Scrolling down, nothing new. biggoron is on, reading the board index. That means he is playing and left the window open <__<.

Bored, what now? I then decide to clean up some directories. After a little clean up I found the "Scandskw.exe" (i've moved it because it always starts up and crashes. Well, not always crashes, because then I wouldn't be able to move it. You'll find out why later here). *Open*. I choose to scan "D: drive". *Scanning*… Waiting a little more than a minute, less than two. A pop up … Pops up <_>. "Error found in D:Email<something>.log", *deletes*. Continues… Error found in boot sector, :O! *Repair*… Waiting a few more seconds, done.

I then decide to scan the main disk: "C:" (Like you didn't guessed already). After a few seconds a pop up tells me that the harddisk got physically damage (Doing a bigger mellow than before)! It suggests me to do a full scan where it scans the disk surface too. Okay then… *Click*. *Waiting*. Waiting more, waiting even more. A new pop up comes and tells me that this time it has found that the "C:WINDOWSInternet logs" directory is damaged (Well, errored, or… You know >_>) and filled with errors (Yeah, that one). I choose to delete it. *Waiting*, gets bored… A new pop up comes with this message: "ScanDisk have now restarted over 10 times, please close all running programs, bla bla bla…" I don't want to do this anymore. I choose to exit scandisk.

I then come to think of the directory "Internet logs", it is afterall a windows directory, I wonna make sure it is deleted. What I find may find you funny (Aren't there any more correct word for it?). It did to (for?) me. The directory wasn't deleted (no that was not the funny part). The directory looks like it has been infected with a whole club of viruses (but after more thinking it could have been ScanDisk's way to "delete"). There are no more than 5479 files in it. It is quite common for a temp directory to have lots of files. Now here comes the funny part where I had to agree with ScanDisk: I couldn't delete the files (no, not the funny part yet), then I looked down (here comes the funny part that you've been waiting for) and see that the folder has a size of 5,39 TB (Terabytes). Just so you can understand why I kinda laughed and mellowed, 1 TB = 1000 GB (more correctly, 1024GB). That would consume 13800% of the harddisk! I declare this impossible! (The clever ones out there can guess what size the harddrive is)

I can't clear the directory (And GiPo@MoveOnBoot can only do files, not folders), so I'll just let it be as it is.

P.S. I made the double title because it looks good.

P.P.S This is NOT an everyday event!

Comments

OL 17 years, 4 months ago

I conclude she needs a new PC.

Daniel-Dane 17 years, 4 months ago

I've been saying that since the start of this year, but she is saying it has to survive for another 2-3 years! I know we are low on money, but you haven't heard it all ;).

OL 17 years, 4 months ago

Heres a tip, flick the little black switch on the power supply off and then tell her that it's broken.

Daniel-Dane 17 years, 4 months ago

We alrady do that because it always suddenly turns on in the middle of the night. I think it's the network card.

melee-master 17 years, 4 months ago

"I wait the few second before I see the little bar that I too don't know the english name of (actually, I've forgot the word :P). A few more second…"

Probably a progress bar. ;)

Arcalyth 17 years, 4 months ago

Your problem is that you're using WINDOWS MILLENNIUM. Windows Millennium is MS's shitware to make money in the period between 98 and XP.

Grand-High Gamer 17 years, 4 months ago

I concur, burn it, burn it now.

Grand-High Gamer 17 years, 4 months ago

Better yey, install Linux (a user friendly version)

SleepinJohnnyFish 17 years, 4 months ago

Holy shit this was a useless blog.

You could have shortened it to "I need a new computer."

SleepinJohnnyFish 17 years, 4 months ago

Quote:
"I wait the few second before I see the little bar that I too don't know the english name of (actually, I've forgot the word :P). A few more second…"

Quote:
Probably a progress bar. ;)

He was obviously referring to the Taskbar, melee… come on.