Re: Bad XP problem

From: Michael A. Covington (look_at_ai.uga.edu.for.address)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:25:14 -0400

"Art" <plotsligt@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:3Kednd11oJattrDcRVn-tg@comcast.com...

[Custom-configured Windows computer...]
> They called back about a week later telling me that the son had gotten
> into
> the unit and messed it up again. Asking who gave him the information the
> customer told me that they had given him the admin password by mistake.
> My respond was to ask them if the still had the emergency boot disk that I
> gave them. response was yes, then I asked them to boot the system with
> that
> disk and wait until the A> came up.
> At which time walked them thru the FDISK functions and the FORMAT
> functions. When the unit rebooted they said," but now all we get is the C>
> on the screen".
> My response was to go buy what operating system they wanted to install,
> the
> application programmes, and have at installing it. That since the system
> recognized the C drive that it was functional. End of story!!~

Right... the owner has to take *some* responsibility...

The worst are machines that have been messed up by a "friend" or family
member who is into online pornography. I've cleaned one or two such
machines up. Porn sites are apparently *full* of spyware and malware. Or
maybe the person who is into porn is also into clicking everything no matter
what it says!