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All you techies, who fix/install PC's for your relatives/neighboors

DaSilva · 2007-02-10 20:38:54

I just came today from a neighbour asking to fix their computer. Basically the task is enormous since the previous techie left the computer fully at the owners feet. It was infested with malware of all sorts, and crappy software that fudges with everything. I told them without an internet connection (they have BB, but the…

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#32 12-02-2007 11:04pm
mwrf

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tba wrote:

I set up a machine once and made everybody an admin, except for one account that I called "internet"

I put a shortcut to firefox on that desktop and changed the icon to look like IE, I removed all shortcuts to IE and FF on the other accounts.

Worked quite well too.

excellent, I must do this in future

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