What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done to fix a tech issue?

Evkob (they/them) · 1M

What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done to fix a tech issue?

@ch00f@lemmy.world · edit-2 1M

Friend’s desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn’t even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.

Evkob (they/them) · 1M

This kind of hacky dumb workaround is exactly what I wanted to read when I posted this thread, haha. It’s kind of genius but also I’m horrified to imagine how things got to that point.

Drew · 1M

Didn’t notepad file dialogue also use explorer?

dpflug · 1M

IIRC, yes but it’s called differently. I’ve used that technique to work around nannyware a time or two.

@jqubed@lemmy.world · 22d

This is good to know; does it still work? I’m assuming with the anecdote involving KaZaA and LimeWire we’re talking Windows 2000, ME, or XP.

dpflug · 19d

I used in 7. I don’t know about 10 or 11.