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Useless Cookie Eater
User ID: 29696048 United States 05/08/2014 04:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Long time now ago I ran a windows ME server and to my surprise, someone low level formatted my beloved machine. Course I had no firewall or anti viral shit knocker. I was in my glory running a web server and thought I was the smartest guy on the fucking planet. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57068776 Than, another time I had the machine on all night and around 2 am while in and out of sleep with art bell on, the machine exploded in a flash. WOW!!!, I flew outa bed and went WTF. The power supply went critical and blew. Now days, I shut the power of completely at the plug so shit doesn't happen anymo. There is no such thing....as a Windows ME server. Windows 98 was a desktop O/S....and a poor one at that. |
Abi ~
User ID: 54732924 United States 05/08/2014 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every night, exactly the same time my comp turns itself up and begins to operate. Quoting: emerald_glow Not just hums, but whistles, klicks, flashing light: it obviously doing something. It works for an hour or more (never had the patience to wait it out) try shouting out : COMPUTER DELETE THIS PROGRAM AND EXIT Actually, my son could do that^^ he has programmed his computer and named it...tells it what files to go into, to delete, to run..just by speaking...really cool. Last Edited by Abi ~ on 05/08/2014 04:34 PM You accept the love you think you deserve~~~ Love cannot live where there is no trust~~~ Truth has no temperature~~~ Love like it's never gonna hurt~~~ Have no regrets~~~ |
Useless Cookie Eater
User ID: 29696048 United States 05/08/2014 04:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every night, exactly the same time my comp turns itself up and begins to operate. Quoting: emerald_glow Not just hums, but whistles, klicks, flashing light: it obviously doing something. It works for an hour or more (never had the patience to wait it out) try shouting out : COMPUTER DELETE THIS PROGRAM AND EXIT Actually, my son could do that^^ he has programmed his computer and named it...tells it what files to go into, to delete, to run..just by speaking...really cool. |
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One-Hitter
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emerald_glow
(OP) User ID: 53523886 United States 05/09/2014 12:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42444186 Canada 05/09/2014 01:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTOR AT NIGHT AS WELL AS YOUR PHONE LINE. It can't update or turn on or watch you if it is completely disconnected from the power. I have a kill switch on mine. Besides you don't want your router continuely zapping your area with waves of Cancer all night do you...? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14380192 United States 05/09/2014 02:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTOR AT NIGHT AS WELL AS YOUR PHONE LINE. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42444186 It can't update or turn on or watch you if it is completely disconnected from the power. I have a kill switch on mine. Besides you don't want your router continuely zapping your area with waves of Cancer all night do you...? but I have to leave mine on... :ooo2: |
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Mitheriel
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CMcC
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emerald_glow
(OP) User ID: 53523886 United States 05/09/2014 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTOR AT NIGHT AS WELL AS YOUR PHONE LINE. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42444186 It can't update or turn on or watch you if it is completely disconnected from the power. I have a kill switch on mine. Besides you don't want your router continuely zapping your area with waves of Cancer all night do you...? That is what I do. You should see how angry it is the next morning:-) Emerald_Glow |
emerald_glow
(OP) User ID: 53523886 United States 05/09/2014 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTOR AT NIGHT AS WELL AS YOUR PHONE LINE. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42444186 It can't update or turn on or watch you if it is completely disconnected from the power. I have a kill switch on mine. Besides you don't want your router continuely zapping your area with waves of Cancer all night do you...? but I have to leave mine on... :ooo2: Why? Emerald_Glow |
emerald_glow
(OP) User ID: 53523886 United States 05/09/2014 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
emerald_glow
(OP) User ID: 53523886 United States 05/09/2014 02:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP you need to task scheduler , then disable all scheduled maintenance tasks. usually start around 1-3 am when idle for 5 min. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57875954 That is that we figured out at the first page of this thread. Disabling would probably work, but how do I know which one is really necessary? Emerald_Glow |