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I Am a Computer Geek

Just Finished A Project

I spent the last week fixing up an old laptop for a friend of mine. He had an old Dell Latitude and it bought back so many memories. XD

It's actually not too bad of a laptop considering it's age. After a few nights of tampering with it and cleaning it, I was greeted with the old Windows XP logo and managed to get into his account. I had to
uninstall all the extra software he had and update a few drivers, but I finally got it fully functional.

Dispite internet explorer only running really old sites on it, couldn't even get Google to load, I managed to get Chrome installed so he can at least browse the internet.

So now that everything is cleaned up and working, I gotta give it back. But I might buy it iff him. I've grown attached these last couple weeks. XD

[b]Fun Fact:[/b] [i]This site will actually load on the old browser. This and NeoPets. lol
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drymer56-60, M
Cool, I know the feeling... I've brought to life a few computers/laptops myself... Sadly, it can be 100% functional, "like new", but since all technology evolves so quickly, then every year they become more and more obsolete and can be completely useless in a matter of, say, 10 years...
I have a very old laptop somewhere which runs Windows 95... I have a couple of DOS games in there, from even earlier days there: digger, Winter Olympics (1986 I think it was) and Indy, a racing game... super basic graphics but so much fun...
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NeighFlowersM
@drymer I got lucky with this one. My friend had the original Halo installed on the laptop and I managed to back the files up and migrate them to my desktop before he had me do a system restore on it. :3
drymer56-60, M
Luck plays a very important role when trying to fix a computer... 馃榿
NeighFlowersM
@drymer Amen to that. XD