SON!! I broke the computer!!

[Gamegirl22]

My mom is just so helpless with computers, I tried to teach her how to use youtube for twenty minutes just so she can watch an obscure movie she was searching for. I had to explain for five minutes about clicking on the 'part 2' video and how to do it; "You just CLICK IT No, you really need to press down when you want to click-argh!!"
What's worse is how she brags about me to others with "My daughter knows how to use the internet and use sites and email." when everyone and their grandmas can do that. Urgh...

 

[swolf]

The best thing my friend does is take a scren-shot of her desktop, set it as her wallpaper and delete all the icons - so when her parents go to click on what they think is an icon it doesn't work. Never gets old.

Haha, I'm SO going to have my wife do that to her parent's computer. I would but my father-in-law owns a lot of guns...so...yeah.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Most people who do not work in the entertainment industry do not differentiate Artists and Technicians.

Enter the Animator.

 

[Limzz]

My friend who works at a computer shop frequently has people bring him their monitor instead of the tower for repairs.

 

[snow]

This may sound like one of those "Where's the any key?!" moments, but I literally had to teach my dad how to double click...

 

[Erja_Perttu]

The best thing my friend does is take a scren-shot of her desktop, set it as her wallpaper and delete all the icons - so when her parents go to click on what they think is an icon it doesn't work. Never gets old.

Haha, Wow that sounds really funny i'll have to try it sometime

I once did that in a pc world store, I opened up note pad, typed out a message, something along the lines of[

'hello?

hello?

please, please get me out of here, quick!

seriously, if they see me doing this again, they'll reformat my hard drive! You've gotta help me!'

screenshot, background, leave shop, watch customers through window as they read it. Comedy gold

 

[MEEBO17]

My mom will ask me if she can check her email, so I'll let her. I'll leave for 20 minutes, come back, and find out she's STILL there! An dhse always closes my tabs...

 

[Lt.Snuffles]

My Dad works with computers, and therefore is much better then me at it and my opinion is thus worthless on the matter. He still hasn't figured out how to turn the computer with vista off.

One of the things which really pisses me off is when a parent pushes you off the computer to do somthing which you were more then capable of doing, and proceeds in doing it exasperatingly slowly: typing with only index fingers, not knowing how the internet works etc and also requiring you to stay where you are.
At one point when there was a problem with one of our computers (It was well and truly fucked, my brother downloaded quite a lot of shit onto it), when neither me or my brother or my Dad could make it to anything other then die, my Mum still decided to have a go and make us stand there and take fucking ages as she looked at the screen and pressed cnrl+alt+del over and over again.

Oh, and "steam" is, quite clearly I must say, a virus.

 

[Low Key]

Basically, anything outside of word processing and my dad will ask me for help. At least he started using Firefox on him own. I have no idea how that happened.

It's really annoying though, because if anything goes wrong with his computer, he'll blame me as if I went in and changed a bunch of settings on him or something when he asks me for help. Then I have to explain to him he must have done something because why would I do something malicious to his computer? It's not like I want to keep fixing it for him. I'm pretty sure he clicks shit he shouldn't, but either doesn't know he's doing it or doesn't want to admit he's doing it.

Edit: Oh yes, I just remembered. I had a fun time fixing my uncle's computer around Christmas time. It all started out as a conversation about how college was going for me and what it was teaching me. He then starts talking how he has become somewhat of a self taught whiz on the computer...except he was having a slight problem with the PC in the basement.

Long story short, he was running four anti-virus programs and three firewalls. On top of that, he was still having major issues, so I ended up having to wipe the thing and reinstall XP. Then, because he had some independent company build his computer, he didn't have any CDs with the drivers, so I had to drive 40 minutes back to my place to download them all, then drive back and apply them. I wasn't very happy. Then the first thing my cousin does is install Limewire. I nearly picked up the tower and threw it out the window.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Both my parents instantly assume every problem with our computer (from a script error to a cord being unplugged) is a virus either I or my brother downloaded.

 

[atombeast707]

The best thing my friend does is take a scren-shot of her desktop,

yes i am a retard: how do you do that?

and more OT: im the best in my family at it, just because i have the balls to make leaps of faith and the intuition to accurately guess how something works.

 

[CakeDragon]

The best thing my friend does is take a scren-shot of her desktop,

yes i am a retard: how do you do that?

and more OT: im the best in my family at it, just because i have the balls to make leaps of faith and the intuition to accurately guess how something works.

Alrighty, hit the 'Print Screen' button when you're on the desktop, open Paint (or otherwise) and paste the screen-shot into there.
Then just save it, set it as desktop background, delete icons, hide taskbar, die of laughter when people fail at using it.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Wow, I seem to be really bad with computers. I'm okay with hardware problems, fixing wires and things, but I am honestly lost when it comes to software. Good thing my father is one of the best and most experienced programmers in the country.

 

[Eri]

People who save everything to their desktop

Hey now..I do that..I put it on the desktop to remind me to do something with it, or watch it etc, then I place it where I need it afterwards.

 

[HT_Black]

My dad taught me how to use computers.

So yeah. I don't have that problem so much.

 

[Lt.Snuffles]

At one point my mum was using my itouch screen to write somthing and it took a depressingly long time for her to stop pressing the lock or menu button.

 

[Junkle]

People who save everything to their desktop

Hey now..I do that..I put it on the desktop to remind me to do something with it, or watch it etc, then I place it where I need it afterwards.

Key phrase: Then I place it where I need it afterwards. These people don't bother. They just fill their desktop, don't delete anything or move it into folders.

 

[Low Key]

People who save everything to their desktop

Hey now..I do that..I put it on the desktop to remind me to do something with it, or watch it etc, then I place it where I need it afterwards.

Yeah, me too. It doesn't stay there obviously because I like a clean desktop (currently have 3 icons minus the trash), but I have a really bad short term memory.

 

[RobCoxxy]

The guy deleted IE for Firefox, then his mother came to use the computer and couldn't find the IE symbol. After shouting at him for a while she claimed he had "deleted the internet".

"Deleted the internet" is my new favourite phrase.

I hereby dedicate this video to you.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Every time my mom comes over, she wants to use the computer. and every time, she always ask the same frecking question.

"Could you help me put pictures up on myspace?"

"Ok mom, for one, i havent used myspace in like, 3 years, i dont know anything about it anymore, 2, I hate myspace, and 3, Myspace makes my laptop run like crap, so no, i cant help you."

Then she always gives me a durty look and goes on myspace anyway.

Oh, and this one was great.

"BRAD! YOU BROKE THE FUCKING COMPUTER!"

"Hey, shut up, your 11, you dont need to be cursing, and 2, the power was unpluged asshole."