Today, my step-mom restarted the computer because she thought she'd downloaded a virus that stopped her from being able to click on anything, erasing my 7-page paper in the process. It turns out it was just the batteries dying in our wireless mouse. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after almost a week of my cursor randomly freezing, I'd had enough and was about ready to go out and get a new computer mouse. It wasn't until just now that I realized nothing was wrong with my mouse. It was running on fumes because I forgot to replace the battery. FML
Today, at work, my mouse cursor kept randomly moving all over the screen, and messed up an entire day's attempted work. As I was leaving, I overheard one of my co-workers saying he'd plugged a wireless mouse adapter into my computer, and had been trolling me all day. FML
Today, my computer mouse suddenly stopped working. Assuming it had died, I put a new battery in. It still didn't work. After spending several hours trying to understand what problem it could possibly have, I figured out that it helps if you don't put the battery in backwards. FML
Today, my mum vented her anger on me by shattering my mouse on the floor, taking my keyboard and nearly ripping out my monitor. At least a spare mouse and the on screen keyboard are better than nothing. This hurts. FML
Today, my mom thought it would be a good idea to see what websites I go on from my computer while I wasn't home. She clicked the link that gave my computer a virus that I just got rid of a few days ago. FML
Today, my mom borrowed my computer without my permission and downloaded a virus. I came home to a blue screen of death. She refuses to admit fault and pay for a new computer. FML
Today, I sat down at my computer for the first time in a week, and discovered that my cat had thrown up all over my keyboard. I needed to write up an important document but the chunks were stuck down in the keys, effectively locking it up and making it useless. FML
Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML
Today, my dad was sat on my laptop in the living room trying to learn how to do some rewiring around the house when he, and I quote, ”clicked on the thing.” My laptop is now riddled with so many viruses it’s basically a house brick. FML
Today, I noticed my laptop kept shutting down and the mouse cursor was all over the place, clicking on every folder. I dismantled the entire computer only to notice something in one of my USB drives: the receiver to a wireless mouse my colleague put there earlier to play a prank on me. 5ML
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TheSithAssassin 15
I'm not certain why you never saved it once. It just seems like the obvious thing to do. There is a chance that the file still exists on your hard drive if you want to search for it. Some word processors create auto recoveries and backups which are sometimes hidden files.
NFSMax 5
Hopefully your document has auto save function. Or use EasyRecovery. Good luck!
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NFSMax 5
Hopefully your document has auto save function. Or use EasyRecovery. Good luck!
Harpy20 24
I just hope someone informed her that restarting is the last thing you do if you think you got a virus... But YDI for not saving it, OP.
XTheDesertSongX 17
7, Are you dense?
Harpy20 24
Of course not. Immediately try to run a system security scan first. If you can't, THEN Shut down and start in safe mode [w/ networking enabled] (f8), while continuing to try to fix the issue. I got the impression she just restarted without the intention of manually safeguarding the PC at all, thinking that that would fix it. People do it all the time -___-
ShyAnn29 15
What happens if you just restart it?
killmoose 5
Yeah and depending on the virus, It might do more harm when the computer is rebooted or it might not allow you to access the operating system you downloaded it on, or it might not boot to it ect. As long as you have a good antivirus program, you'll know you have a virus, and usually it'll help fix it
jjessen 20
Either way, op is probably ******, considering the fact that this is FML, he couldn't recover it.
lilhellian 27
When you restart it helps make the changes take effect, I have personally had a virus I didn't know about. When I reboot for updates it disabled everything and made my browser go to a site that makes you pay to get rid of it. (I didn't pay, I wiped the computer.)
Daederoth 10
Save early save often OP.
killmoose 5
You learn that very quickly if you're on a laptop that's not on a charger or a desktop that keeps freezing
RinaRina 9
Always remember the 5 minutes save rule! Thats what my Tech teacher teached us.
GlitterScribbles 9
I guess your English teacher teached you very little.
Mahtari 19
I instinctively hit ctrl+s every few sentences.
t_fml 11
That just plain sucks!
TheSithAssassin 15
I'm not certain why you never saved it once. It just seems like the obvious thing to do. There is a chance that the file still exists on your hard drive if you want to search for it. Some word processors create auto recoveries and backups which are sometimes hidden files.
MrClean17 15
Especially on a computer that you share with other, evidently technologically impaired people.
putloginhere 6
I save probably 5 times doing like a 2 page paper. A 7 page.. Well if he didn't save once he's not the sharpest tool in the shed
Clioo_fml 17
I agree, I would say this is OP's fault. You should save as much as possible.
hannaaaahr 33
i wonder how that technically impaired step-mom managed to restart the computer without using the mouse.
JustASmallTownBo_fml 7
#52 the little green button on the tower. Or she unplugged everything.
nava1210 12
52 - Unfortunately, she probably held the power button to do a hard shut down. Which of course, is the worst way to turn off or restart a computer
wickedninja918 1
well his mom probably used the power button (would deffinatly make sense that she knew where the power button is if its like a mac or if its a laptop or one of those windows computers that have the whole computer in the moniter)
Feared 9
It's always possible that they were saving to RAM rather than permanent storage. Random Access Memory gets erased every time the computer is shut down or restarted. And if they were working right from a Flash drive then the word processor might not autosave anything.
onlychildFTW 34
Microsoft word automatically saves your document like very 5 mins. When you reopen the program if says "file recovery"
Callyn 47
I'm 99% sure that you can't save to your RAM. The computer uses the RAM to run things but it's not a location you can save things to.
BlueFlatts 20
I agree with 25, in addition to saving it in a alternate source such as a flash drive or by e-mail. If you lost it YDI, especially if your not the sole user of the computer. Carelessness...
bubina 14
And that's why you save your work every so often.
Feared 9
Maybe they did save. But they saved to RAM instead of the Hard Drive. Random Access Memory gets erased whenever the computer is shut down or restarted.
fgwrxfiend 11
I'm pretty sure the RAM doesn't do that
Riseagain16 7
he is corre t about the ram resetting but no.computer ever will allow you to save to the ram (at least no home/personal one)
Feared 9
111- she* I'm a computer Systems major.
Pwib 14
Or use Google Docs. The documented is auto saved on the cloud every time you edit it.
elmousey 5
Yea, maybe the op (who doesn't have the common sense to save a 7 page paper when they leave the computer) has some totally abstract computer system that saves files to RAM. That makes a lot of sense. I understand people forget to save while working on a paper, but if you leave a shared computer with your paper open and unsaved that's just dumb.
SAgirl 23
Why dont people save these things that are "so" important?
DerrickJames 33
They would fail the FML auditions if they did.
fmmfl1993 1
Control "s" every 5 minutes or command "s" for you Mac users
LollipopDragon 4
Google Docs is a beautiful thing. Saves for you, and you can get it anywhere with Internet.
sirpantselot 22
You only make that mistake once.
thetechdude22 0
Unfortunately that isn't true... I've done this many times...
DaDezza244 31
Well 16 that isn't very smart idea... And very risky too. You should start saving things so you don't completely lose all your work you did.
catkat1988 17
You didn't save it on the computer? And you let your step-mom use the computer without having saved? I'm really sorry, but that's on you. Yes, it sucks, but it's also 2012 and students at all levels should have enough experience with computers to know better than this. That came off really harsh, and I do sympathize with your situation - it blows to lose something you've been working on for a long time. But seriously. Save. It's that little blue button on the left side of your screen when using Microsoft Word.
MegamiKaosu 28
Also ctrl+s for those who don't want to stop typing to move your mouse and save.
boobookittyfk 3
The little blue button is called a "floppy disk".
lukemack 4
I understand her restarting it but maybe save first.
winkydog4056 16
Save, save, save.....did I mention save?
chris_42 11
Stupidity isn't a virus, but it sure is spreading very quickly.
winkydog4056 16
#10_I like!
Posthuman 26
Then thumb him up.
KiddNYC1O 22
Should be a virus.
Posthuman 26
Stupidity isn't a mere virus. No, stupidity is a disease, ravaging and infecting most of the human race.
Phoebe_Buffay 14
If your taking that from SpongeBob, it's "but it sure is spreading like one" :)
BrotherTheo 31
Always set autosave, and always use dropbox. Always.