If she already has her own pc, you're already half way there. Just create the image now and save it for the next time she cries about it again :) Quoting Bob Axtell : > piclist@mmendes.com wrote: >> Welcome to the club. >> >> I got tired of fixing my computers because my girlfriend kept >> installing crap >> every time she used it. >> >> My solution was to remove her account from all my pcs and get her a >> pc of her >> own. Once I had it all setup with just Windows (not even office and other >> stuff some people find essential), I took a backup image of the hard drive, >> before letting her loose on the poor machine. Note: having the clean image >> with nothing installed was the key to my plan. She was in charge of >> installing >> all of the apps she wanted to use. >> > She HAS her own PC, and without smiley central it runs faster than mine. > >> The first time around, after two months of begging me to find out why her >> machine was too slow, I simply restored the drive's image, she lost >> everything >> she had installed because I did not bother salvaging anything before the >> restore. When she asked why I answered, "maybe you should contact the tech >> support people of all this crap you install here and ask them why >> your system >> is so slow and full of viruses". After this happened for the fourth >> time, and >> losing everything every time, she finally gave up and started to ask >> about what >> she should or should not install in her machine. She's getting the >> point, but >> still not all there. It'll take another couple of restores with >> complete data >> loss before she fully gets the concept. >> >> > Ad-aware found 68 smiley files, EXCLUDING another 100 cookie files. > After I stripped stuff out, I had to run registry mechanic to fix the > registry; it found almost 200 issues. > > I sent a complaint to Smiley Central support, and they denied that their > search engines were fraudulent. These guys need > to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail (how justice > was done in the early days of the USA). > > --Bob > >> Give it a try :) >> >> >> -Mario >> >> >> >> Quoting Bob Axtell : >> >> >>> My wife is ready to throw me out of the house because I >>> got rid of her smileys (Smiley Central). >>> >>> Smiley Central is adware/malware that invites people to install >>> smileys for use on their email. Once installed, smiley takes over >>> the PC, replacing decent search engines with their fraudulent >>> search engine "MySearch" and "WebSearch". If you previously >>> have Google hooked in ANYWHERE, it will redirect it to their >>> fraudulent search engine. When you USE their search engine, no >>> matter what link you click on, the engine redirects you to one of >>> their PAID links, NOT what you clicked on. >>> >>> If you try to uninstall smiley central, it comes right back and re-installs >>> itself! The only way to get rid of it is to use a malware killer, like >>> ad-aware. >>> >>> If all that wasn't enough, it slows the PC down to a crawl, like it is >>> climbing Mt Everest all the time. >>> >>> I tried to install commercial smilies (a paid-for program) but my wife >>> doesn't like it ("Get Smile"). >>> >>> Here's what I need help with: how can I install the smileys without >>> the other bad things? Is there a way to just have part of it working? >>> Or am I forced to hack the program to dismantle the bad pieces? >>> >>> --Bob >>> -- >>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >>> View/change your membership options at >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >> >> > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist