Awesome. Should have told her to reboot into safemode and manually install the correct driver...just to see :)
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid user tricks When my daughter was 3, she used to watch me build Win9x and NT4 systems. One day, I started the installation for a new NT4 system and left it after accepting the EULA. My daughter stuck around to watch it for a while, then came to where I was and said, "Daddy, it crashed." Thinking that she was mistaking the blue NT setup screen for the crashed Win9x screen, I said to her, "No, I think it's fine." When I finally did go to check on it, lo and behold, there was a lovely BSOD on the screen because of an incorrectly detected component. She was paying a lot more attention than I thought. I apologized for not believing her right away... :) ASB (Professional Bio<http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I had this one, OS was Windows XP: Luser: I powered on the computer and it shows a blue screen with a bunch of stuff on it Me: What does it say, exactly? Luser: I don't know, it's too technical Me: Can you read any of it? Luser: No I can't, it's too technical Me: Can you *spell out* any of it? Luser: No, it's too technical. And yet when I finally went to where this system was it as the typical BSOD with yes, human-readable words "A problem has been detected..." This person was our receptionist at the time. She was later replaced by another one who called me once and asked "are we on the east coast, or west coast?". Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid user tricks On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > After that, another one gave me shit that she couldn't remember her > login name that she had been using on her desktop daily for years and > her iphone? I once had this conversation: Luser: What's my logon name? Me: First initial followed by last name. Luser: How do you spell that? Some people just shut their brains off when they get near a computer. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
