Who’s the ASSHAT that never worked a single day for any real company?

Keep ALL sub-human displays of SUB-HUMANISM at HOME!

NEVER connect ANY machine to the internet - Say you don’t have internet, it will allow you to create a LOCAL ACCOUNT - no MS sign in BS.....

Only after DECRAPIFYING do you hook up the internet!

Stay local, my friends!

Ah, you punk kids with your modern PC's...

Mine is still original as well, but I am now armed with a tool to kinda get it back to where it was. How long until someone writes a Greasemonkey script to put it back to where it is now from the BS Timeline craptasticness? SOON I HOPE! I like the way it is now!

Simply put - if you are not able to reload your machine from scratch - DO NOT TRY ANY OF THIS STUFF! You could completely bork your machine - BACKUP FIRST AND ALWAYS!!!!!

Yeah. Don't hold yer breath on that!

God herself?

I've always wondered why these whole drive encryption methods don't have a "duress" password - starting a full drive wipe. Good for most everything - key in the "duress" password and DBAN nukes the data! PM me for the address to send the checks!

"real men don't look at explosions"

Head to your local Auto Zone and have then pull the diag codes.

Agreed, just wanted them to know there are lots-o-options.

Ensure all fans are working - use a toothpick to see if you get the grindy noise of the fan slowing. It could be that the heat pipe fins are clogged. It could be your thermal transfer pad or compound. Laptops really aren't designed to be used on one's lap - you need a large book or something to put them on. If you're…

Piriform now has a version of CCleaner for OSX.

This is the manual way of re-imaging a machine. I worked at a small university (5k) where general use PC's would rebuild via REMBO from the network. The local drive image cache file would be checked, and only changed sectors would be restored. Don't want to leave any info behind? Hit the reset button (yes, some of our…

No, because even if you relay your internet connection to, say, a laptop or desktop WiFi setup, like Connectify, it's WPA2 encrypted...

This article missed the easiest and best way to accomplish this :

Nope. I thought it was OS/360!

Well, Myth - that's just what you are. A myth. No truth, no fact, no argument, just a handful of numbers - nothing more.