techrecovery | I'm evil.

So I have two machines in the shop. One of them was having slowdown issues with OE and IE.(Alas, we still use it, due to boss wanting it to be a "company standard" dispite my suggestions otherwise.) The other had a loverly STOP 0x7 message on boot. It's running 2000.

PC #1 was easy, removed some spyware, installed a few updates, and the problem seemed to go away. Time will tell.

PC #2 annoyed me. Loads of spyware (including Dupeware that claimed to stop Popup ads, but was really spyware in it's own right) and some non-company softwre, including drivers for a USB storage device of some form, which i think is the root cause of the STOP error. Those went away, along with their Administrator privledges. No QueasyShare for you! I also put in the last round of 2000 updates for it as well, which was some 40 MB worth of crapola. The Trust issue was that after I re-built their machine several months ago, was that they would not do anything stupid to it. That trust was broken, obviously. Especailly after seeing two extra user account that I never put back on the machine to begin with.... And I would love to see the look on the face when they figure out what I've changed the Administrator password to on that machine ::EVIL grin::

I wonder how long it will take them to notice that a) their camera software is no longer on the machine, and b) they don't have install privledges anymore to make it happen...

I'm THIS short of tweaking their IE policies to disallow fiddling with the security settings... hmmm...
::goes in to gpedit.msc and does EVIL things::