Just Simply Holly

We’re very fortunate in the fact that we have four computers in our home.  We recently purchased a new computer for our son which was his Christmas gift.  Yes, he got it early, but his computer just wasn’t cutting it for the online games he plays and we got a really good deal on it at Walmart, so we just couldn’t turn it down.

My computer is going on three years old, but runs very well for what I use it for.  Although I have been thinking very seriously about reformatting it just to give it a clean slate.  My husband has a laptop that he purchased used almost 2 years ago.  He’s very happy with it, but none of the rest of us can stand to use it, so it’s all his..LOL!  But my daughters computer is the oldest one in the house and I don’t give it much more time.  It has a small hard drive (40 GB) and only has 512 MB of memory.  We recently reformatted it and it was running very nicely, but she thinks that meant that it was OK for her to download anything and everything without paying attention to what it was she was doing.  That has resulted in many boxes that should have been unchecked during downloads remaining checked which has given her a MESS on the computer!

Tonight my husband is sitting there tinkering with it because for some reason or another it now won’t go online.  He found several programs that never should have been installed on her computer even though we just went through the computer removing junk programs a little more than a week ago.  I don’t think she’s ever going to learn to pay attention to what she’s doing and stop downloading ridiculously stupid things without checking with us first.  I guess I’m just going to have to leave her be, and when the computer finally dies let her deal with the fact that she doesn’t have a computer any longer.