Some do. Its called the "Start" button...

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
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A little off-topic, but I have found Windows 98 to be (overall) much more usable and tolerable than Windows XP, but even the former is very restrictive and frustrating. I also absolutely despise Windows Media Players 7+ compared to Windows Media Player 6.4 (which I love).

At my old high school, they'd just received a set of brand new P4s. But the techs did such a horrible job at building them that whenever you pushed the start button on one of the PCs, it would stop working. Then, the computer would be labeled as 'defective' from anywhere to a month or two while the techs took their sweet time "fixing" it. So I managed to make an illegal deal will the director; he'd let me fix the computers as long as I did it while none of the techs were in the room, so they wouldn't know. (someone else opening the puters goes against their contract or something) So I opened one up to fix it... you'll never guess what the problem was...

The whole thing wasn't screwed. That's right. They didn't even bother to screw the parts to the casing. How did it hold? DUCT TAPE.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

so all the parts inside were just taped in there? I'd understand if it was a hard drive, b/c i have one that won't go into the bay, so I have it resting on the bottom of my case, but having the mobo, power supply, and what not taped into place is just half-a**ed and inexcusable. Those techs should be fired.

Also, why would the school sign a contract that forbids them to look inside their own machines? The techs either have one hell of a good scam going, or they are incredibly incompetent.

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The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.

oh, it certainly wasn't because the parts didn't fit, seeing as I just picked up a screwdriver and screwed them in.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

how much are those techs getting paid to f*** your school over as hard as they possibly can? I'm curious.

and by start button, do you mean the windows one, or the physical power switch?

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The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.

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heh, whatever it is, it's too much! Most of the people working at that school did so because they had contacts, not because they had the skills required. It's sad, really.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

The power switch. They turned the computers on and then never turned them off because if they did they wouldn't be able to turn them back on again.


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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

Which version of Norton's are YOU using? I have zero problems with mine, and it pulls none of that crap. If a file is infected, I always have several options of fixing it, and Norton's does not delete it automatically. As far as I'm aware, it isn't the job of an Anti-Virus program to block incomming connections. That's the job of a firewall. Is it not?

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Frogblast the Vent-Core!

It came with Norton's firewall, which is a helluva lot worse than its antivirus, which is saying a LOT. Norton and McAffee (though I hear McAffee's gotten its act together) are notorious for being popularized suck. Hell running an AV program 24/7 isn't all that advisable. And I was using the latest version.

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Well, I've used various versions of Norton's SystemWorks and AntiVirus on every computer I've ever owned. Never had any problems with either product.

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Frogblast the Vent-Core!

Heh, I had a similar deal at my school.

We did have a problem once where the start-up button actually physically broke, a little plastic bit broke off from the spring.
We fixed that with cellotape, but we spent the next few days making sure we didn't smell melting cellotape. The start button wasn't near anything that would get hot, though.