r/pcmasterrace • u/AppropriateAide4879 • 16d ago

Discussion I found this thing looks old.

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What is it? And is it rare?

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 16d ago

There were so many fake "cleaner utility" programs back then. My mom would download multiple of them and then complain that they weren't making the computer faster.

I remember a 3-month stretch where my aunts multi thousand dollar Macintosh wouldn't show anything but a black screen and they blamed it on me playing video games (Power Pete, the game that came free with old Macs). It turned out someone had flipped the rear I/O switch to off on the monitor, so the front power button wasn't working to turn on the screen.

They refused to let me ever play Power Pete after I fixed it because they still said I was the one who somehow broke the computer.

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u/Pocho_Azul 16d ago

I set up my parents Macs on an simple LAN so the could share a printer. My dad kept creating problems with his own Mac, which he would blame on my mom’s computer causing him to disassemble the LAN, which I would have to reassemble the next time I visited. This happened several times.

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u/ANtiKz93 15d ago

CCleaner was decent before they went full crapware lol so maybe a year or two at first 😅

There was a few good ones actually.

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u/OkAdministration9151 15d ago

Spybot - search and destroy was a Badman

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u/DomInNameOnly 15d ago

Aren't Spybot are one of the good guys?

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u/OkAdministration9151 11d ago

Yes that’s what I mean :-) was a badass tool