Basically, my dad has decided that my computer is now his. He bought a new CD drive, and a new floppy drive. NEITHER of which were needed, and installed Windows ME on the poor thing. I’ve only managed to sneak on here after he’s gone to bed (aw, how nice of him to create a profile for me, since I don’t fucking NEED ONE). All the colors are messed up, and the resolution is stuck at 400x640, I guess someone needed to install drivers or some shit, I don’t fucking know, something I never had to do with XP. It’s very painful to look at.
sigh All I wanted was to get a new power supply, and try out that old motherboard to see if it worked, and if it didn’t (it sure as hell doesn’t with XP, it looks like it barely works with ME) then to get a new one of those, and then everything would’ve been fine. Buuuuuut no. I live with the stupid fucking face fucker on the fucking planet, who also likes to STEAL THINGS THAT DON’T BELONG TO HIM!!!
In case anyone’s wondering, yes this IS a big fucking deal to me, as my computer was my only means of communicating with anyone I cared about. And yes, I AM feeling quite depressed, nearing suicidal at this point. And yes, I DO realize that if I had just gotten a fucking job, I could just buy my own laptop or whatever and let the bastard do what he wanted with this one. Or at least gotten decent grades in school, I could get a scholarship for college and that would save me TONS of money… God, what am I even rambling about? I’m gonna stop angsting on you people before you start making fun of me, that’s the last thing I fucking need right now.
(PS, in case you haven’t already gotten my message Kaiser, please disregard it at this point. Or something. It’s not so urgent anymore, as right now I just want to friggin die. ^^)
Just format it again and install XP, not really much he can do about that. Then put a password on the computer (I forgot, but I think it was possible to enable a password in the BIOS)
Anyway, sorry for your loss, Nessa. You should really feel better soon. The way I see it we all have to trudge through life no matter how annoying it becomes.
To quote Claude Kenni of Star Ocean 2, “Thing will work out somehow.”
Your dad sounds like mine; he thinks he knows how computers work. Of course, he’s heffed up on goofballs (read: high) pretty much always, so you can jump to your own conclusions on that one.
I’m very sorry to hear he’s doing that though… I’m not too sure you should do something too drastic like change the settings without his permission. If you do, sugar-coat it and say that you made the computer work better, because you did, right? But don’t lock him out or anything, because then he may very well decide never to let you use the computer at all. He sounds like the controlling type.
But please, PLEASE don’t even THINK of suicide! There is never a reason at ALL to think such thoughts, and if you were to take your life, then things would never get better, right? Right now, there’s a chance to reverse all of this computer nonsense and get your settings back so that you can talk with all your friends, but don’t let a setback like this get you down. Things WILL turn out for the better, because they always do!
So see what you can do about getting things back to normal without setting off your imbecile of a father (I can relate to that). Things will be back to normal soon, and if you can’t get XP back, then don’t let it hit you too hard. After all, I’m using ME too, and this thing seems okay. 8)
Me and my dad were sharing an ME box for years, and we never had any problems save for an occasional bluescreen(And who hasn’t had that problem?). If you ask me, ME is the least of your worries.
I really do dislike people who THINK they know about computers. My mom’s comp-illiterate, but at least she admits it!
There’s only one person in my family who even remotely knows what they are doing when it comes to computers. But then again, we don’t know exactly what he is doing. So he could just be making up a load of bollox, and just be screwing with the computer.
Anyway, Nessa. Just try and relax. And try to get him a way from the computer as much as possible, so that way you can go on it more often. And the whole ME thing, just try and put up with it until you can get something done about it.
That’s horrible, Nessa. Not only the tampering, but also the way he just hogged something that had already become a personal item of yours. I understand your indignation, and I hope you can find a way around this mess.
Nul’s suggestion seems tempting too… Parents can be real jerks when they want to. My father didn’t exactly take over the computer, but whenever he wants to use it, he starts throwing tantrums like a spoiled brat, and he always leaves my CDs spread on the desk. He never puts anything as it was, and he even used to get ash all over the keyboard… I’m not even going to mention the smell… It’s rather stupid how he never leaves me alone to run defrag and make the security updates too. I’m the only one in this house who does that stuff, and I’m pretty sure he’d start bugging ME if he somehow managed to put this thing out of order.
But I’m ranting…
I hope you can make your father see the blatant disrespect his behavior constitutes, and I hope you can get that machine just the way you like it. At least in my case, I know that a computer can be something very personal… even though my sister replaces the wallpaper five minutes after I’ve thrown in a cool one.
