| The 50 plus crowd within the United States didn't | | | | put into use, the computer slowed to a crawl. |
| grow up using computers at school or within the | | | | I'm lucky because somewhere in the process of |
| work environment because in our early years the | | | | aging I found time to attend a technical trade |
| desktop computer and laptops didn't in all actuality | | | | institute where despite the fact my classmates |
| exist within the consumer marketplace. We have cell | | | | thought I was a professor; I along side of them |
| phones now that are smaller than the size of a cinder | | | | learned to build a computer from the ground up. |
| block and computers no longer require more square | | | | Some of the residual training included troubleshooting |
| footage than a five room home. Yes, time has | | | | the system and a resulting ability to keep it and my |
| progressed and I'm proud to say the fifty plus crowd | | | | personal and financial information safeguarded from |
| my children seem to think are 10 days older than dirt; | | | | intruders that come in the form of hackers, worms, |
| managed to adapt to the modern day technical | | | | Trojans, viruses, adware, etc., etc. I learned to do a |
| advances as well. | | | | mass of little things to keep it (the computer) |
| Computer use by our aging population revealed in | | | | optimized as well and these series of events; are |
| 2004 that 46% of those aged between 59 to 68 | | | | things we all need to learn to do. |
| now use and enjoy Internet access at home. Just | | | | Most people are clueless when it comes to |
| over 76% of those within the ages of 50 and 58 use | | | | debugging, defragging, defusing this that or whatever |
| computers as a direct result of computers being a | | | | it takes to keep the home computer operating |
| common place necessity and requirement to function | | | | efficiently. But, the simple fact of the matter is the |
| or perform our jobs within the modern day work | | | | tiny little things necessary to keep the home |
| environment. However, it must be noted using a | | | | computer optimized isn't difficult at all. I'm not into a |
| work computer and having to keep it optimized and | | | | lot of physical activity anymore as age made me |
| safeguarded is usually the task of the resident wiz | | | | realize; the only thing that doesn't hurt in the morning |
| kid or a dedicated technical type (IT) staff. So what | | | | when I get out of bed is the eyelids. I don't jog any |
| happens when the home PC slows, crashes or is | | | | longer and as far as I'm concerned; that animal the |
| somehow compromised? | | | | wife drug home 180 years ago - can give itself a |
| As I see there are a number of emergence repair | | | | walk. |
| tactics that can be implemented. First and foremost | | | | I'm more into keeping the mind fit and dedicate |
| is the panic call to our children to come over and | | | | myself into contemplating important things such as |
| troubleshoot the situation. After all, they have been | | | | how many fish I'm going to drag home from the |
| using computers since first grade and that pretty | | | | lake, if the dog is going to find its way home, how |
| much makes them an expert right? Once you | | | | many Emails I'll be sending or receiving and most |
| discover their ability to social network and post | | | | importantly; why it is the TV volume is set at 24 and |
| videos on Utube doesn't speed up the computer the | | | | somehow comes on in the morning set somewhere |
| second option is; to research and find registry repair, | | | | around 38 or higher. I still don't know who formats |
| spyware, adware and about 100 other software | | | | TV movies to specifically fit my television set and |
| solutions that have incremental probabilities of | | | | why anyone would want to take a prescription drug |
| resolution. Last but not least the computer can be | | | | after listening to all the accompanying warnings the |
| drug into a service facility or a technician home visit | | | | commercials render. |
| can be scheduled that will ultimately cost as much as | | | | As you have guessed I'm not into massive physical |
| a 2d mortgage home loan. Well, none of that has any | | | | activity and as such will not be taking the time to |
| source of good old fashioned stubbornness and | | | | come over to your house to show you how to |
| common sense. As I also see it ' there is always a | | | | optimize your home computer. The tech boys at |
| solution in the face of any and all problems. | | | | work are out bar hopping looking for their future |
| I remember that conversation at the plant where | | | | wife and I know by now, your home computer is |
| something sounding a lot like a termination threat | | | | getting slower than a piss ant missing 3 or 4 legs |
| motivated me to actually start touching a computer | | | | down it's right side. (I'm not an anthropologist). |
| keyboard way back when. I still remember a series | | | | Anyway in between Emails, articles, electronic |
| of training classes that I attended that were | | | | newspapers somewhere in the midst of my avid |
| moderated by a technician that today wouldn't be | | | | Internet surfing (which sounds physical) I actually |
| allowed to have friends in his car let alone use a cell | | | | discovered the solution to your home computer |
| phone while operating a motor vehicle. Seems to me | | | | woes. I discovered (as you have) you didn't need to |
| he still had spit behind his ears. But, putting all that | | | | buy all that fixit software above and beyond the |
| behind, he did a really great job of teaching all of us | | | | antivirus stuff. All you need is a series of home |
| how to get around those old computer operating | | | | videos that take you by the hand and teach you |
| systems proficiently. We were ready to tackle | | | | how to expertly optimize that little computer |
| Donkey Kong, Pong and any Atari game in existence | | | | operating system with an hours worth of effort. |
| buried in the home closet. That being a monumental | | | | Your computer will be up and running as if it was just |
| achievement I like many others actually bought a | | | | plugged in today! |
| home computer. I used it a lot and as all things being | | | | |