I'm surprised no one has posted this yet: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
To be honest there have been so many incidents that most have simply been forgotten. One recent one was a PC that didn't get past POST until a USB webcam was unplugged, then it booted fine, even with said webcam reattached to the same port.
One which I liked was a friends laptop that would not do anything. Black screen, no sounds, nothing. I just press the on button for just over a second and it works fine ever after... I was known as having a magic touch after that:)
McAfee is possibly my least favorite piece of software - not only does it do it's job badly & slow down everything but it doesn't uninstall even vaguely properly.
Removing over 100 spyware progs from my friends poor PC gave less of a speedup than finally removing McAfee! Get AVG or NOD32 for antivrus, Zonealarm for firewall and Adaware SE, Spybot S & D and Spywareblaster for antispyware. Try HijackThis and SysInternals stuff if you really want to know whats happening on your Windows Installation.
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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html To be honest there have been so many incidents that most have simply been forgotten. One recent one was a PC that didn't get past POST until a USB webcam was unplugged, then it booted fine, even with said webcam reattached to the same port. One which I liked was a friends laptop that would not do anything. Black screen, no sounds, nothing. I just press the on button for just over a second and it works fine ever after... I was known as having a magic touch after that :)
McAfee is possibly my least favorite piece of software - not only does it do it's job badly & slow down everything but it doesn't uninstall even vaguely properly.
It can be a heck of a fight to actually get rid of it - see http://www.myfixes.com/articles/mcrem for details on how to root it out.
Removing over 100 spyware progs from my friends poor PC gave less of a speedup than finally removing McAfee! Get AVG or NOD32 for antivrus, Zonealarm for firewall and Adaware SE, Spybot S & D and Spywareblaster for antispyware. Try HijackThis and SysInternals stuff if you really want to know whats happening on your Windows Installation.
Or just get Ubuntu or PClinuxOS already...