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AustinKZombie

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    AustinKZombie reacted to Kooldown in Experiences with non-techies   
    Several weeks ago, a friend of mine's parents took their computer to some Best Buy because it was running slow and they didn't know how to fix it. Best Buy being Best Buy, told them the computer was not worth saving, and they bought a new computer from them. One of those small Windows 8 desktops.
     
    I go over to his house one day, and notice that they have a new computer, and ask where the old one went. He tells me the story above, and I ask him where the computer is now because I'd be willing to place a wager that I'd be able to fix it and he can have his own computer.
     
    The computer was how you'd expect it to be. It was used by everyone who lived under that roof, Mom, Dad, and my friend's 2 sisters. I had never seen so much bloat on a single computer in my entire life. Even found a folder filled with Katy Perry songs, however none of them were songs, and were .exe's that gave them adware. 
     
    Long story short, I cleansed the PC of its bloat, adware, viruses, and nothing was wrong with it. It was a Dell XPS 420 FYI if you were wondering, it had Windows Vista 32 bit, some old pentium and 4GB RAM. All in all it probably took me about an hour to fix it, but I didn't mind doing it.
     
    As I was getting ready to leave the his parents came to me and handed me their old laptop that allegedly had a virus on it and rendered it unusable. There was indeed a virus on the computer, some malware that literally would not let the user open anything unless they bought their software. Even tried opening CMD and it said a malicious attack was attempted by cmd.exe. lol.
     
    Wound up having to boot into safe mode since I couldn't load anything other than the malware, and put Malwarebytes on a flashdrive and got it removed there. Did not receive any form of thanks at all, but then again I didn't really want any.
     
     
    I live in a town that is 90% wealthy jewish families that worship Apple like a religion so I have some more funny stories.
     
    One time some kid tried to convince me that my Note 3 is inferior to his iPhone 4s because the iPhone's "running system is faster and better than Samsung's". I asked him if he meant operating system and he proceeded to call me a nerd who doesn't have a life. I asked him why is it all of the sudden a bad thing to know what you're paying for and he just kept saying that Apple makes the best phones and that is why everyone has them. I never once said to him that Android phones are better and I just told him whatever works for him is best and walked away.
     
    Another time my math teacher tried to tell me how a computer works. I then asked her to point to the computer and she pointed to the monitor (not the PC on the floor under her desk)
     
    The best story of them all comes from when I was in the 6th grade many years ago. The school had these computers in this room and we would sometimes have our media class in there. All we would do is make short movies in Windows Movie Maker in that class. In 6th grade I think was the first time I actually got a PC, so I was pretty familiar with XP, which was what we were using.
     
    So one day, internet explorer would not open for some reason. However, I knew a command in CMD that could force open a program so I began typing in a command and the teacher yanked me by my arm and put me out in the hallway. He told me that many other students were losing their projects and he suspecting me of "hacking the system and deleting their projects".
     
    Even after telling him this was not the case, I was sent down to the principal's office and got banned from using the school's computers for 2 months. 
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    AustinKZombie reacted to terrytek in Experiences with non-techies   
    Same here
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    AustinKZombie reacted to Extingquish in Experiences with non-techies   
    That's a fairly easy mistake to make
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    AustinKZombie reacted to alby800 in HELP, what is the smallest tower that can fit a 4 sli gtx 980s with good air flow?   
    Why do you want 4-way sli?
     
    If you really want a smaller form facter, and for some reason still need 4-way, try and find a titan Z cheap (please don't hurt me) or a 295X2
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    AustinKZombie reacted to Firearm2112 in Updated my MSI mobo BIOS and now I can't overclock?   
    Is there a way to reset your bios config? 
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    AustinKZombie reacted to XTankSlayerX in Budget Racing Simulation Setup   
    Logitech Driving Force GT is your only good bet.
     
    EDIT: Just noiticed your profile picture... OH GOD WHY.
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    AustinKZombie got a reaction from Wtalk2 in People in Canada is your province getting Fibre internet rolled out?   
    Im in Brampton,Ontario and idek if I have it I can pay for speeds up to 350 mbps they call it ultimate fibre so maybe I have it but they have been really vague.
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    AustinKZombie reacted to ShadowCaptain in surface pro youtube setup help?   
    Why not record your voiceover and add it later in editing?
     
    Can you not connect the live game to the surface pro using USB? and then connect your yeti too?
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    AustinKZombie got a reaction from Darkman in GRID + Insurgency (x3) Giveaway!   
    I like anything that is free so thank you in advance( even if I don't win) for doing this you really put me in the holiday spirit! 
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