Cleaning Mom’s Computer

Oh my, where to start.

I got a call from Liz this morning, her computer was opening all kinds of windows and running really slow. We all know what that means, right?

So I had to tell her to shut it down and I would take care of it this evening.

Stephanie is 12. Stephanie has been playing on Mom’s computer a lot. Stephanie has been installing all kinds of stuff on Mom’s computer.

Oh my, oh my. I wish I could have taken some screen shots. The desktop was covered with “Free Cell Phone” and “Free IPod” icons and such. There were so many processes running the poor machine could barely do anything. (It is, after all, only a Celery 500MHz with 256MB RAM.)

It took me almost ten minutes to login and get the Add/Remove Programs dialog up and running.

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