Clay Aiken

2 weeks ago

Ok folks... Silly game....

My mother's desktop computer is running so slowly that I cannot even think of a funny way to describe it...
She's got so many pointless pictures on this thing and so much junk in here that the inside of her computer probably looks like one of those houses on Hoarders.
It can take a full 60 seconds for Safari to open up when she clicks on the icon. I honestly don't know how she even uses it. I suppose she just doesn't realize that computers don't still run as slowly as they did in 1998.
My plan has been to completely get rid of this Mac and switch her over to a Chromebook since the family has gone Google. But this thing is soooo slow that I can't even drag her stuff over to a folder to save it.
So... It took 2 hours to do so, but I downloaded a program to scan the hard drive and tell me where all the junk was so I could start deleting some things and hopefully speed the thing up enough for me to use it.
She's got images saved in her iphoto's library that completely baffle me. Little icon images from the bottoms of people's emails. Somehow she downloaded the images to banner ads from websites. It's just insane. Things that she (nor anyone on Earth) has any use for no reason to keep. But as it turns out, it's not the photos that are taking up all of her hard drive. Come to discover she has not deleted an email since probably 2007. Every email she has ever received or sent -- including spam and junk mail -- is still on here and literally taking up almost half of the computer!!!
So I found that folder that's holding all of that mess and dragged it to the trash can. I clicked "Empty trash" and I swear I think I heard the computer actually say "Thank God!"
So for fun...
Let's play a game and see who can get closest...
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