2017-06-10 at 4:26 PM UTC
I just bought some shitty old printer for £3 from a car boot fair, the guy assured me it worked fine. I installed the software on my laptop and now its all fucked up. the screen keeps blinking and programs keep closing a few seconds after opening them. can you get a virus from printer software?? I never thought that was a thing. I shoulda saved and got a new one from the shop. anyone know what I can do to save this?
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2017-06-11 at 12:19 AM UTC
bump, need halp quick, what do?
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2017-06-11 at 12:28 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
When your computer first boots up, press F8 repeatedly to enter the bootup options. Select Safe Mode. Once into Windows in Safe Mode, go to the Control Panel > Add Remove Programs > and uninstall the printer software. There may be more than one entry. Reboot the computer in normal mode.
2017-06-11 at 12:28 AM UTC
Challenge your printer to a beyblade battle
2017-06-11 at 2:18 AM UTC
I just smashed it to fucking pieces
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2017-06-11 at 9:52 PM UTC
anyone else got anything, that^^ didn't do shit?
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2017-06-11 at 9:55 PM UTC
Did I challenge it to a beyblade battle?
2017-06-11 at 9:57 PM UTC
your supposed to be leet cf, what do?
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2017-06-11 at 10:18 PM UTC
AngryOnion
Big Wig
[the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
Do what Spec said.
Or just install linux.
2017-06-11 at 10:25 PM UTC
AngryOnion
Big Wig
[the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
OK then you should know how to remove shitty software.
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2017-06-11 at 10:41 PM UTC
Narc
Naturally Camouflaged
[connect my yokel-like scolytidae]
I know its in the terminal somehow, but its a bit hard as the terminal just closes after 4 or 5 seconds after I open it. every program does this. do I need a disk or summing?
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2017-06-13 at 4:11 PM UTC
Narc
Naturally Camouflaged
[connect my yokel-like scolytidae]
I got files I need on there.
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2017-06-13 at 4:34 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
ctrl+alt f1 -> f9 cycles through virtual terminals if your graphical environment is fucked
once you have a terminal you should be able to check dmesg/syslogs to work out wtf happan
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2017-06-14 at 11:38 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
running dmesg or cat /etc/dmesg (need to be root) will give you a bunch of information related to devices and modules being loaded at startup; if you scroll through it you should be able to see if there's a particular item giving you trouble (it's colour-coded in most recent distros, look for red lines). If there is you can run lsmod|grep <device name> to see which kernel modules are associated with it, and modprobe -r <module name> to unload them. Once done you can use your package manager to remove them permanently.
That's just assuming it's to do with the printer driver though - check instructions for viewing system logs on your distro's site if that doesn't help, some distros are set up differently to others (ie. systemd vs initrc and stuff like that) so I can't really give you specific advice.
2017-06-14 at 12:43 PM UTC
Narc
Naturally Camouflaged
[connect my yokel-like scolytidae]
so I just type 'dmesg' into terminal?
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2017-06-14 at 12:46 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
yeah but you need root so either
log in as root
su to root
run sudo dmesg
