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This is an update on my deceased BIL's computer that we inherited. We spent hours trying to get an internet connection. So we had our specialist come over last night to fiddle with it to see what the problem is.
I swear, if I had filmed him clicking away and re-playing it on slo-mo, I still couldn't keep up. Anyway he brought in his bag of geek tools and a box of a million feet of the blue ethernet wire and assembled plugs on both ends and connected the modem to the ethernet connection on the back of the tower. He said that would provide a faster transfer of files than a wireless one.
We also found out that a computer develops a headache if it's off the internet for a while. Two hours later and his downloading I guess what was some scan programs, and a defrag (that we let run all night), the darn thing works like a champ now.
I had both the tower and the monitor huddled in a plastic bag for a couple of weeks to get the odor out, and none was obvious. Last week I had a follow-up appointment with my cardiologist and asked him about the odor and he said that as it absorbed the odor, it will expell the odor in time. I tried the bag trick before asking him that thinking I could speed up the process.
As for accessing his email, we will have to make arrangements with AT&T to have the account accessible by providing some paperwork including the death certificate, if LOML decides she wants to do that. We have his user name, and applying for a lost password only brings up a recognition of our account.
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I swear, if I had filmed him clicking away and re-playing it on slo-mo, I still couldn't keep up. Anyway he brought in his bag of geek tools and a box of a million feet of the blue ethernet wire and assembled plugs on both ends and connected the modem to the ethernet connection on the back of the tower. He said that would provide a faster transfer of files than a wireless one.
We also found out that a computer develops a headache if it's off the internet for a while. Two hours later and his downloading I guess what was some scan programs, and a defrag (that we let run all night), the darn thing works like a champ now.
I had both the tower and the monitor huddled in a plastic bag for a couple of weeks to get the odor out, and none was obvious. Last week I had a follow-up appointment with my cardiologist and asked him about the odor and he said that as it absorbed the odor, it will expell the odor in time. I tried the bag trick before asking him that thinking I could speed up the process.
As for accessing his email, we will have to make arrangements with AT&T to have the account accessible by providing some paperwork including the death certificate, if LOML decides she wants to do that. We have his user name, and applying for a lost password only brings up a recognition of our account.
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