Photograph edited (clouds in background) by John Bond of Far Northern California--thank you Johnny.My bro-in-law Mike (yes the same one that just had a huge cancerous thyroid gland the size of a baseball removed from his neck) has got major problems with his computers.
First of all, there are three or four of them in a row. One is for Mike, one for his wife Judy, one for their daughter Sabrina, and maybe one to keep track of the others--I am not sure.
Any way, Mike tells me that after he installed the latest MicroSoft web browser -- Internet Explorer 7 -- his computer won't recognize his keyboard or mouse any more. That makes it a challenge to actually use the computer!!
Another one of the computers is also acting strange. I think that is Sabrinas. So Judy's is the only computer that is acting normal. Sabrina likes to go all over the Internet, so I think she has several viruses or something.
Any way, Mike doesn't know what to do. He is not a computer guru. I explained to him that if things got really bad, he could simply reformat the hard drives and reinstall all the software. He did not seem to relish this idea. He will probably spend a lot of money taking the computers into a computer repair shop and having them fix them.
I did not tell him it would be cheaper to simply buy a brand new hard drive, remove the old one and just install everything from scratch. But that is true.
Of course they don't have anything backed up either.
BACK UP your hard drive
David A. Youngs
