how did you get into pcuguide

[halovivek]

this is my story. i was searching for some hardware issues. i googled it and i found the solution here. i joined at 2003. Till now i am this pcguide as base for me. i told to lot of people to look here. ( around 50 -100 of my friends)
How about you?
1. did you googled and came here?
2. did your friends / anyone given route to this site?
3. how many did you introduced to this site.
answers please

[George Hallam]

My uncle (jiggy) introduced me to the site after having hardware issues, i posted a few times then that was it until a few years back when i came across the site again (after having more problems) and since then i tend to visit every day and post when i have time :D

[Ajmukon]

me...
i googled a problem (slow computer- slow loads/ slow boot, slow in general, even 3+ year old games) and thought i cam up with a solution, and then found this site with someone who posted, 5 years prior (i revived an older post, sadly) had the same problem.
needless to say...
I offered help...

and got a stern talking to by Budfred... (about checking dates) :p :D

over the next few months, i got several in fact... :eek: :( :o :confused:
but that is another story...

[johnny_quest]

Googled it before googling was a word in the dictionary, actually I probably Yahoo'ed it, but I digress

I try to stop here just about everyday to browse when I'm bored at work. There's always a little tidbit you can pickup, it's a great source of knowledge

[mjc]

I stumbled in here one day, when I saw a small blurb on the actual 'content' side of things...Ixl was opening forums related to the site. I hung around a couple of months, lurking in the background, watching the paint dry...

Then my kids drove me over the edge...never did get that first problem satisfactorily worked out...sort of fixed it...switched to a good old IBM 'clicky' keyboard (until I melted it).

[rio_bugarin]

I believe I found this place through google. registered...next thing I know, I'm visiting the site on a regular basis,hecking new posts and see if I can help someone or if someone can help me or if I can learn something new.

[Ajmukon]

Then my kids drove me over the edge...never did get that first problem satisfactorily worked out...sort of fixed it...switched to a good old IBM 'clicky' keyboard (until I melted it).

there seems to be a story associated with this....

Prtrhd (i think) said something about an Oven...

And judging by the sound of things, it sounds interesting...

getting back to the first part,
i have invited "Awaj, Astache, Halsy", and others, but no one posts anymore other than Awaj and Astache...

I believe I found this place through google. registered...next thing I know, I'm visiting the site on a regular basis,hecking new posts and see if I can help someone or if someone can help me or if I can learn something new.

hecking??? this is why i love firefox, built in spell checker! (i would be worse then a simple typing snafu if it were not for the spell checker)

[PrntRhd]

LoL,
Someone is bringing my name into this story? My ears are burning!
:)

I started monitoring the site to learn more about PCs to help me learn stuff for work. I thought I knew some things but find myself learning almost continuously on the forums. The best part has been the discovery of cheap/free applications that work just fine.
:D

Now moderator duties make me more of a detective regarding spammers than I thought I ever would be. Wow, was I ever naive.
:p

[mjc]

Ok, you asked for it...

I had a 'multi-media' keyboard...one with one of those stupid 'power' buttons on it. My daughter, just about a year old at the time discovered that she could do fun things with it, like turn off the computer...usually like when I was in the middle of something.

The question I first asked was about being able to just disable that button. The final consensus was to just replace the keyboard (which I really didn't want to do...because that would mean I'd give up my 'easy' volume/mute buttons too). The replacement was an old IBM Model M. Which I used for quite some time. But then one day after thoroughly cleaning it (they are one of the keyboards that you can completely disassemble and actually wash), I stuck it in the oven...without the oven being on, to keep it out of the way of the kids. Well, to make this a bit shorter, I forgot that it was in there and turned the oven on to make some pizza...the keyboard never quite recovered from that.

[awaj]

That was a good story MJC, I was curious how the comment on the other thread about the oven tied in...

I came because Ajmukon told me to go because I had needed help and it had stumped him (and my self...).

I also have a multi-media keyboard (Shhh!!!! don't tell Ajmukon...) but I too am curious how to disable certain buttons. Does anyone have an answer worth me making my own thread?

[mjc]

Simple answer...use it on Linux machine...most of the buttons won't be assigned, so they will be 'off'.

[webbwbb]

One simple work-around I've used in the past to disable that is to keep an unsaved notepad window open. It will close all of the other programs but notepad will ask if you want to save before exiting. If you choose cancel the computer stays on. As for disabling it, that can be very different from one model to another. If you feel comfortable with disassembling the keyboard you could fully remove the button (but if you are not good at that type of thing you could also break the keyboard).

[awaj]

I'm not bad with electronics as half my major revolves around it... I still won't mess with a perfectly good keyboard though (even if I can figure out what I am doing...)

[Mini-Me]

Found this collection of computer gurus one day when browsing. Technically I was googleing a problem, not SPECIFICALLY looking for PC Guide, but followed the link, and accidentally stumbled into these forums. The forums here are I think the best PC forums on the net - I have seen and read posts from many since I signed up here, and this is still the friendliest place to come to learn. Some other forums(and I won't name names - they know who they are) can be very nasty towards newbies, and that's what I like about this forum - there is no nasty attitude to newbies, provided they behave themselves.(read: are not spammers or trolls) ;) I have learnt so much more on this forum then I ever could trying to work out the problem myself, and generally speaking, there is ALWAYS someone who offers their help with any problem you might have. :) I'm only sad I have not been able to help as many people, as those here have helped me. But I'm learning all the time, and there are occasional times when I can give something back!!! :D

[Mini-Me]

My 2c on the keyboard issue: Disassemble it as aswebbwbb suggests(and others), place a strip of adhesive tape such as electrical tape or duck-tape over the contacts for that power button, then re-assemble. This allows the key to still stay on the keyboard, and you can press it like normal, but it will have no effect. I have done this kind of thing several times with buttons on TV remotes that give too-easy access to the tuning controls. On one TV, the tuning keys are the Volume up and down buttons, provided you press the PRESET button first(which is right to the left of the volume buttons!), and the guy kept hitting the PRESET button by accident(not even realizing he had done it), got no response to his request for a volume change, pressed the volume down or up button again, and the TV promptly de-tuned the channel he was watching into nothing but snow. :D One of the worst remote-controls I have seen.(tuning functions should not really be assessable via the remote, IMHO...)

[jlreich]

Just short of five years ago I just started getting into computers. Googled something about security and somehow ended up here. Read through some posts and found what I was looking for and so much more. :cool:

Since then if a day goes by that I haven't stopped by here at least several times it is because I am somewhere I can't get access to the net, or I have worked such a long day that I just come home and go to bed.

[mjc]

As to the helping others learn...

Well, just think of all those question threads you've asked, Mini-Me...many of them get a fair number of hits from the search engines...which means someone, somewhere is learning something from them.

[Ajmukon]

As to the helping others learn...

Well, just think of all those question threads you've asked, Mini-Me...many of them get a fair number of hits from the search engines...which means someone, somewhere is learning something from them.
Haha... sometimes its the question that helps the most....

just think how many people have revived old posts just to say "thank you"
(but more still 'offer' help... sadly)

i can think of a few, but i do not remember where they were...

[Mini-Me]

As to the helping others learn...

Well, just think of all those question threads you've asked, Mini-Me...many of them get a fair number of hits from the search engines...which means someone, somewhere is learning something from them.

Well, if my ranting and raving in the form of questions helps anyone at all, so much the better. :cool:

[52vincent]

Can't remember now, it seems that I came here first following a link by google search.

[‡*¶ϠõÞλ]

i came here searching for tech forums so i can get varied opinions with electronics help when needed. i usually ask the same question in a few forums as i find it helps alot better, some forums are dead or my question is responded with opinions instead of answers lol, so thats why i am registering at several

[yawningdog]

When I first started trying to figure out these computer thingys, I bought PCs for Dummies. This website was listed in that book as a good resource for anyone wanting to learn about hardware. I logged on then and have been here ever since.

[stefanus]

I found the link in a magazine, when I first arrived in the UK some years ago, 2001 to be exact, which unfortunately does not exist any more. It was called, PC KnowHow. Some excelent ideas for improving ones computing inside. I have recomended PC Guide to a few people, but do not know if they signed up! Their loss lol. I have gained a lot of pc knowledge from lots of people here and made some on-line friends also. Excelent site...

[stefanus]

I found the link in a magazine, when I first arrived in the UK some years ago, 2001 to be exact, which unfortunately does not exist any more. It was called, PC KnowHow. Some excelent ideas for improving ones computing inside. I have recomended PC Guide to a few people, but do not know if they signed up! Their loss lol. I have gained a lot of pc knowledge from lots of people here and made some on-line friends also. Excelent site...

Actualy! Re the above post. It was a magazine by the name of PC Guide, which I recall eminated from the USA, but suddenly disapeared of the shelves here in the UK.

[Wandrille]

I googled some problem with my laptop and it brought me to this site.
So i posted then the next day I forgot to save this site so I tried searching for it but it brought me to another site which was very similar to this one. When I couldn't find my post I was sort of shocked but then realized that I was on the wrong site and opened up that history box and found this site again.