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[van p]

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volunteer at the local computer repair shop

You've mentioned this before. Is this a for-profit business? If so, why are you volunteering? If you were a young kid trying to get experience, I guess I could understand it.

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Moonchild, when I clicked on the button to post, I was taken to the login screen and told to log in. I WAS logged in; I always log in as soon as I get to the forum. This has never happened before. What's up?

[moonbat]

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If so, why are you volunteering?

IIRC, he volunteers to help senior citizens who show up there with computer problems.

[Moonchild]

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Moonchild, when I clicked on the button to post, I was taken to the login screen and told to log in. I WAS logged in; I always log in as soon as I get to the forum. This has never happened before. What's up?

This can happen if there's too much traffic creating sessions all at once (attempted DoS or what not). I'll investigate once I've released the next update.

EDIT: No signs of issues or heavy traffic. perhaps your cookie expired? Try deleting your board cookies (link at the bottom right of pages)

[Night Wing]

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@ van p

The computer repair business I volunteer is a "for profit business". It is owned by my next door neighbor. Like me, when we first met, we both are "outdoors people". He, like me; loves to fish, crab, snorkel, sail, etc. So we hit it off from the get go as neighbors. When I went down to the coast, he would go with me.

I was also retired at that time from the maritime industry at the age of 60 so money was not a factor back then and money is still not a factor today. I volunteer because I never wanted to be an employee ever again. I wanted to come and go as I please and I do. I'm 74 now.

I basically turn Windows computers into Linux computers now at the shop where customers are just "fed up with Microsoft and want to get away from Windows". I show them how it can be done.

Back to my neighbor.

I was using Windows 7 back then, but like most people, I really did not know how to maintain Windows 7 and did not know how to fix things on Windows 7 when "Murphy's Law" reared it's ugly head.

So my neighbor started to teach me how to do things with Windows 7 since I liked using computers and an example is below.

Sometimes when a customer's Windows 7 hard drive was failing, he taught me how to back up everything on that hard drive. Except he didn't show me how to back up the drivers. So when I loaded a fresh copy of Windows 7 on a new hard drive, there were about nine missing drivers. So he taught me how to find those missing drivers using the internet and going to places where I could find those drivers, copy them to a usb stick and then load the missing drivers on a new Windows hard drive.

Sometimes it took me six hours to find those missing drivers. Then one day, he showed me how to copy the DriverStore "first". To make a long story short, it took me about ten minutes to load those nine missing drivers onto a new Windows 7 hard drive.

I asked him why he didn't show me how to copy the DriverStore "first". He told me sometimes the DriverStore is so corrupted and that section of the hard drive where the DriverStore is located, the drivers could not be copied. This is how I started to learn things about Windows 7 when the "easy way" was not available.

My neighbor taught me many things about computers which I will not go into, but some of those things would be considered "a shady area of gray" since the correct term is more akin to the word, "illegal".

[van p]

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Moonchild, when I clicked on the button to post, I was taken to the login screen and told to log in. I WAS logged in; I always log in as soon as I get to the forum. This has never happened before. What's up?

This can happen if there's too much traffic creating sessions all at once (attempted DoS or what not). I'll investigate once I've released the next update.

EDIT: No signs of issues or heavy traffic. perhaps your cookie expired? Try deleting your board cookies (link at the bottom right of pages)

I just tried it again, and for now at least the problem has disappeared. I'll keep the "Delete cookies" thing in mind for any future occurrences. Thanks.

[van p]

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Night Wing, you answered my question; no doubt about that.