Are you able to login in from another device to confirm the problem isn't yet another yahoo fuckup?
sometimes they fiddle around with the backend and it fucks things up
Are you able to login in from another device to confirm the problem isn't yet another yahoo fuckup?
sometimes they fiddle around with the backend and it fucks things up
If anyone here has parents who don't live nearby and are not very computer savvy, may I make a suggestion?
Install a Remote Access/Desktop software on their system, and on yours. Establish a connection so that if they have any issues, you can connect to their system and see what's going on.
I'd been bugging my mother to do this. She's elderly and living down in Florida. I perform maintenance on her computer whenever I visit... which has been fine. But recently there was a serious issue that required me to help her over the phone. PAINFUL! While she's no dummy, she's not very tech savvy. And when flustered, she forgets things (like something you just had her do 10 minutes ago, she can't remember how to do now upon request). Anyway, her system was suffering some corruption to the point where the normal built-in Microsoft Remote Assistance feature was crashing on her. I had to install a 3rd party remote access software (I used TeamViewer).
Also, and I can't emphasize this enough... it's important to impress upon elderly family members that strong passwords are essential. Plus, anti-virus and anti-malware software.
My mother got a pop-up the other day on her laptop screen and it looked to her like it was from Microsoft. It wasn't. She doesn't visit any websites out of the ordinary (news sites, commerce sites, etc). But somehow, I don't know how, this pop-up appeared. It warned her that her computer was in danger and that she needed to call Microsoft right away. She didn't bother to call or text me first to confirm. She just blindly went along with it... and these fuckers installed crap on her computer and got her to authorize a payment to them. Thankfully my sister talked to her right after that and she had her immediately contact the bank to stop the transaction. It worked. And then she changed her passwords. However... they left a back door. And tried to hack into her system again. In retrospect, I should have had the remote assistance software installed earlier, and I'd have been able to immediately figure out what's happening. Now I'm having to do all kinds of damage control remotely. A real pain in the ass!
Install a Remote Access/Desktop software on their system, and on yours. Establish a connection so that if they have any issues, you can connect to their system and see what's going on.
I'd been bugging my mother to do this. She's elderly and living down in Florida. I perform maintenance on her computer whenever I visit... which has been fine. But recently there was a serious issue that required me to help her over the phone. PAINFUL! While she's no dummy, she's not very tech savvy. And when flustered, she forgets things (like something you just had her do 10 minutes ago, she can't remember how to do now upon request). Anyway, her system was suffering some corruption to the point where the normal built-in Microsoft Remote Assistance feature was crashing on her. I had to install a 3rd party remote access software (I used TeamViewer).
Also, and I can't emphasize this enough... it's important to impress upon elderly family members that strong passwords are essential. Plus, anti-virus and anti-malware software.
My mother got a pop-up the other day on her laptop screen and it looked to her like it was from Microsoft. It wasn't. She doesn't visit any websites out of the ordinary (news sites, commerce sites, etc). But somehow, I don't know how, this pop-up appeared. It warned her that her computer was in danger and that she needed to call Microsoft right away. She didn't bother to call or text me first to confirm. She just blindly went along with it... and these fuckers installed crap on her computer and got her to authorize a payment to them. Thankfully my sister talked to her right after that and she had her immediately contact the bank to stop the transaction. It worked. And then she changed her passwords. However... they left a back door. And tried to hack into her system again. In retrospect, I should have had the remote assistance software installed earlier, and I'd have been able to immediately figure out what's happening. Now I'm having to do all kinds of damage control remotely. A real pain in the ass!
Provide you use a strong password team viewer is a good option. Can either have it active all the time so you can connect whenever the computer is online.
Or you can uset in a run once mode/run when needed where it generates a code and password which has to be provided to you.
Use this for my mother and mother-in-law's computers.
But the scammy fuckers also use teamviewer in violation of it's TOS.
Funny you guys mention that the last time I had to deal with MS support they wanted me to use Teamviewer with an authentication code. So seems even they use it for support help.
It's a good program. I've used it for several hours in doing remote maintenance to my mother's computer, and no real complaints. They have a corporate license model, so not surprised that large companies are using it. But yeah, best is to not have it automatically run upon boot up and only invoke it when needed. That way you avoid unnecessary overhead, especially when starting up a computer.
Something interesting here, and I might try this out.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-android-netbook/
Putting Android onto an x86 netbook or laptop. I might try this with my small Asus TP200sa since the touch screen is playing up on me with the latest Linux. Then I'll put linux back once I have had a good play with it.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-android-netbook/
Putting Android onto an x86 netbook or laptop. I might try this with my small Asus TP200sa since the touch screen is playing up on me with the latest Linux. Then I'll put linux back once I have had a good play with it.
Intriguing. You could take an older laptop and just use it as a dashboard to run various Android apps. But I'd only do this if it has a touch screen. Unless this Android variant has mouse support.
My little Asus has a touch screen so I'm thinking of trying this sometime over the weekend.
I tried installing Android on EeePC a few years ago. It seemed quite stable, although I could never get the wireless connection to work properly.
OMG I had one of those 11inch screen also touch was loaded with Windows XP which they managed to fit on a 16gig SSD and it was a mobile version of the OS but still felt like a proper full version.
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Managed to get hold of a FX 4300 really cheap, was able to use it in a machine which used to have a Phenom II 905e, the machine is much faster now downside is the 30 watts more power the 4300 uses, the 905e will be moved to a machine which at the moment has an old dual core Athlon 4450e
My old CPU was an FX 4300. Yeah 95 watts
I have a 6300 now and I think it's about the same.
I'm going to get a meter to check that. I suspect though that in my case it's only during gaming I'd be pulling more watts.
Don't thin you need a particular verison of Andriod to use a mouse.
I've used a mouse with android tv (version 6) box and with Android running under an VirtualBox (6 and 7) using the x86 ports avaible on the net.
It's just very very very painful.
but then the argument is out there that Android on anything over then a phone is poor user experience.
I hate Windows Update. It froze my laptop completely. Had to hard shut it down/reboot. First time that this has happened during an update day.
Here's the updates:
An Adobe one (KB4093110)
And one dealing with Windows Version 1709 (KB40934112)
Here's the updates:
An Adobe one (KB4093110)
And one dealing with Windows Version 1709 (KB40934112)
What adobe product?
Flash Player.
So far past that freeze (before the update -- didn't even realize it was there until I rebooted), everything seems to be working ok. But I was really concerned at first.
