Also, most of the desktop computers that lay flat, can also be stood up in a tower method. I think some of the smaller ones have an optional base that helps keep it from falling over.
Computer geek friends- help please!
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Love teamviewer. Works great from phone, too.
Yeah, TeamViewer is awesome software. 
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Oh, yes, I've used it alot, even at work when we were remote from Home Care to the main IT office.
But, I need someone on the other end.
Yeah, I have it vertical now. I just have to remember that if I open the DVD drive, the DVD/CD will fall out.
There is no base, but it's stable.
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I am only here to say I am jealous you got 12 years out of a PC. I bought a new quad core about 6 years ago and since then I've already replaced the power supply, maxed out the RAM, replaced the video, added 20x more HD storage, and now I am seriously considering a new one because this one is too slow.
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Even though I'm on the computer a lot (you may have noticed.......) I'm a pretty light user for most things. Even when I worked at home, I had a few word processing files, but my work itself was in the cloud. I have lots of pictures and music files, but no videos at all and we don't do any photo editing or things like that. I think I had one of the first models of Pentium 4, and it served me very well.
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My kids use the desktop for youtube a lot. Wife uses it for iNet browsing. I use it for sketchup modeling. Beyond that it mostly sits unattended serving up video to all the TV's. Outside of sketchup, the only time I use it is to figure out who fvcked up what.
My wife insists that anytime there is a problem with the machine the only solution is to turn off the anti-virus and firewall.
Oh, yes, I've used it alot, even at work when we were remote from Home Care to the main IT office.
But, I need someone on the other end.
Yeah, I have it vertical now. I just have to remember that if I open the DVD drive, the DVD/CD will fall out.
Give a shout if you have any questions. I'm not as good working off the top of my head, but if you have Teamviewer, I can probably answer any question or show you what you need to know/do.
And usually those drive have little tabs sticking out around the edge to keep the discs in the tray while it's standing up. Give it a try.
Probably shouldn't mention pluto.tv here. It's kind of a nice timewaster if you like random videos from a variety of genres. it even currently has a Weird Al Yankovic channel streaming his videos 24/7...
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Well, never before have I considered "random videos from a variety of genres". As you know, I'm not too into TV/movies/video.
But.........I bet I will check that out soon!
The grandkids will be here shortly to hang out with us all weekend. So I'll be unable to be online much for a while, and then Monday we're heading over to our Texas friends' in western Wisconsin for a few days. I'll bring some beer and lamb roasts; they provide the BBQ and all the rest. They aren't TV/internet people at all (have no idea who Yooper is :cross
so we'll be: talking; eating; drinking beer; repeat..........for a few days.
