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DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
edited February 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone else have their PC do a huge update and now having problems with the computer??
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    My computer needed to update last night, it did, and then an update notice came up again. I hope there isn't anything wrong with Windows.
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Service Pack 1?
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Looks like Geek Squad time. :x
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    DS1119 wrote:
    Looks like Geek Squad time. :x


    joke squad is more like it....i wouldn't trust them to fix shit...
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  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    did you try unplugging it first?
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    did you try unplugging it first?


    reboot.

    :lol:

    seriously, i wouldn't trust geek squad....

    when in doubt, back shit up, and reload everything.
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  • London BridgeLondon Bridge USA Posts: 4,733
    Try reinstalling the Microsoft updates that came out on 2/16
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    DS1119 wrote:
    Looks like Geek Squad time. :x



    I've tried everything and it operates in safe mode and it appears I haven't lost anything. What's wrong with Geek Squad?
  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    press the 'any key'?
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    DS1119 wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    Looks like Geek Squad time. :x



    I've tried everything and it operates in safe mode and it appears I haven't lost anything. What's wrong with Geek Squad?

    they are a bunch of untrained clowns...if you are in safe mode....back up your data and just wipe the computer.....or maybe you can reinstall a backup point that is already on your computer.
    81 is now off the air

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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    81 wrote:
    back up your data and just wipe the computer.....or maybe you can reinstall a backup point that is already on your computer.



    You might as well have just typed "fjdsb asjkc eu jincasuy wmcurfn4 scnZOI nvndonjcaufj qcheomm flipper" because that's about as much as I know about backing up, reinstalling, or backup points as I know. :lol:
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    you gotta be kidding me...

    i'm guessing you don't have an external hard drive. :lol:
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    81 wrote:
    you gotta be kidding me...

    i'm guessing you don't have an external hard drive. :lol:


    It's my laptop and what's an external hard drive?
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    :lol:

    i'll leave this one to norm....
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  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    did you try throwing it out of the window?
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    did you try throwing it out of the window?


    I'm going to go with the balcony this time. :lol:
  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    DS1119 wrote:
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    did you try throwing it out of the window?


    I'm going to go with the balcony this time. :lol:

    yep, break it real good. then get a new one
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    DS1119 wrote:
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?


    can you work a jump drive? than you can work an external HD.

    seriously...you plug an external hd into a usb slot and the computer...than it's like any other drive. windows exlploer click and drag your files to it.

    it's so easy, a caveman could do it.
    81 is now off the air

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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    81 wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    Looks like Geek Squad time. :x



    I've tried everything and it operates in safe mode and it appears I haven't lost anything. What's wrong with Geek Squad?

    they are a bunch of untrained clowns...if you are in safe mode....back up your data and just wipe the computer.....or maybe you can reinstall a backup point that is already on your computer.
    I worked for Geek Squad for about 3 years. ;)



    That said, do not take it to Geek Squad. They will charge you about as much money as it would be to buy a new PC.

    Not that they are idiots, most of the guys I knew knew their shit, it's just that it's an $11 an hour retail job. You're going to get employees who won't really give a fuck.
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    81 wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?


    can you work a jump drive? than you can work an external HD.

    seriously...you plug an external hd into a usb slot and the computer...than it's like any other drive. windows exlploer click and drag your files to it.

    it's so easy, a caveman could do it.

    What's a jump drive? :lol:
































    Kidding.
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I worked for Geek Squad for about 3 years. ;)



    That said, do not take it to Geek Squad. They will charge you about as much money as it would be to buy a new PC.

    Not that they are idiots, most of the guys I knew knew their shit, it's just that it's an $11 an hour retail job. You're going to get employees who won't really give a fuck.

    Thing is it's not the PC I really care about. It's the info that's on it. Tax returns, pictures, etc.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    DS1119 wrote:
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?
    Get a Mac.


    My Mac is booted camped with Windows 7 and every god damn time I boot into Windows, there's like a 20 minute update.. and then it needs to install the updates.. and then it needs to reboot and configure the updates.. and if I'm lucky, more updates. :-x



    Fuck Windows and the time it wastes me to just check my email and stream porn. :twisted:
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?
    Get a Mac.


    My Mac is booted camped with Windows 7 and every god damn time I boot into Windows, there's like a 20 minute update.. and then it needs to install the updates.. and then it needs to reboot and configure the updates.. and if I'm lucky, more updates. :-x



    Fuck Windows and the time it wastes me to just check my email and stream porn. :twisted:

    DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS GUY

    (I've worked in IT support at an HQ of a Global Company and worked endlessly with Mac OS X and Winodws)
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    DS1119 wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I worked for Geek Squad for about 3 years. ;)



    That said, do not take it to Geek Squad. They will charge you about as much money as it would be to buy a new PC.

    Not that they are idiots, most of the guys I knew knew their shit, it's just that it's an $11 an hour retail job. You're going to get employees who won't really give a fuck.

    Thing is it's not the PC I really care about. It's the info that's on it. Tax returns, pictures, etc.
    Have you heard of the digital dark ages?

    Most of your data will not be around years from now, no matter how much you back it up. Data corrupts over time.

    It is believed that far into the future historians will look back to now with little written documents to tell about our world. The digital era will be a blank period in history.



    I would say, if you have cherished photos, print them.. Cherished music, get it on vinyl, and keep printouts of important written documents!
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Brisk. wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    And now it works but it keeps getting hung up on webpages and it took over thirty minutes to boot up. Is backing up the computer to an external hard drive fairly easy. And by easy I mean if I plug it in will it lead me along on what to do?
    Get a Mac.


    My Mac is booted camped with Windows 7 and every god damn time I boot into Windows, there's like a 20 minute update.. and then it needs to install the updates.. and then it needs to reboot and configure the updates.. and if I'm lucky, more updates. :-x



    Fuck Windows and the time it wastes me to just check my email and stream porn. :twisted:

    DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS GUY

    (I've worked in IT support at an HQ of a Global Company and worked endlessly with Mac OS X and Winodws)
    I'm not saying Mac is better, I'm just saying Windows is over kill... I guess just disable everything in Windows, but most don't know how to do that.
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    [quote="LikeAnOcean"
    I'm not saying Mac is better, I'm just saying Windows is over kill... I guess just disable everything in Windows, but most don't know how to do that.[/quote]

    At the end of the day it's same shit just different box buut to the reasoning to get a Mac because of constant updates is just silly and you know it ha. I had some updates the past few days and they were the only ones in months. Even when it updates it's all in the background anyway!
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    this thread reminds me of this

    http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... burns/2786

    :mrgreen:
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    norm wrote:
    this thread reminds me of this

    http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... burns/2786

    :mrgreen:



    Move!
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    I don't have any of these problems with my Commodore 64.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
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