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Computers 101
Topic Started: Nov 27 2009, 09:40 AM (487 Views)
bionic4ever
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I am still at my mother's house for a couple more hours. She and her hubby have a computer - and internet - and have never used them! Am going to teach my 80-year-old mom and her 82-year-old hubby the basics today. I love to be useful! (Am NOT going to be showing them Facebook!)
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Good luck! You're going to need it!
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We're getting my parents a laptop for Christmas - and guess who gets to set the whole thing up! :) Or maybe it will be more like @#$ @#$ or HYSEE HYSEE
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Everything was pretty much set-up. I updated their AVG and installed a flash player for them. They are now capable of sending and receiving e-mail (they had to be taught this twice each) and to do simple Google searches. :)
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bionic4ever
Nov 27 2009, 03:27 PM
Everything was pretty much set-up. I updated their AVG and installed a flash player for them. They are now capable of sending and receiving e-mail (they had to be taught this twice each) and to do simple Google searches. :)

Isn't it amazing how these things have become so commonplace and 'simple' to us but to others they are still so strange? It's hard to imagine my grandparents using the internet (they never used even a typewriter) but if they were still alive I'm sure they would be learning it as well. Does your mother like it?
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Well...she's trying. I thought she had e-mail down pretty well, and when she dropped me off, I asked her to e-mail me when she got home (instead of calling). She had to call to be walked through the e-mail process one more time. But she seemed to have figured out where she was stuck, so there is hope.
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I am not sure if my instruction stuck. Have not received any further e-mails from my mom or her hubby. Why do they even pay for internet if they don't intend to use it...? @#$
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My Mom can now reply to e-mails (usually in 24 hours or less!) but is still having trouble sending out new ones of her own. At least we are making progress!
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My mother called me this morning because her computer was running slow. (Her AVG is set to auto-scan.) She wanted to know if the entire internet was slow this morning...or if it was just her!
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A friend on Facebook told me that her mother got one of those notices "Computer has performed an illegal operation" and she called her daughter, terrified she was about to be arrested!
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I got my mom a computer for Christmas - what WAS I thinking???Now I've had to help her figure out how to use Windows 7 and load al the printer drivers, Office software etc... ARGH! Shoot me - shoot me now!!!
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How is your Mom doing with her new computer, OJFan? :)
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OMG - I've had at least three calls from her about it. I should have just loaded everything when I was there - it's just that by the time she set it up, I only had a day left. I keep telling her to get PCAnywhere so I can fix it from here, but she hasn't done it yet. Argh! My father is worse though - he's infected their old one - they had to pay $100 to get it scrubbed.
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When you buy a $20 wireless mouse, you get what you paid for - a worthless piece of JUNK!
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LOL - a message from J & O, who is picking my mother up at the airport:


Grandma-"we landed"
me-"I know. I'm at the baggage claim board".
Gram-"you came early?"
me-"website said you were landing early"
gram-"well how does it know that?"

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