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03-09-2009, 04:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | Moving a computer? Changing settings?
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Hey guys! I have to move in a few months, and I was wondering if that when I moved it, it would change all my settings for AIM, MSN, MySpace, etc., back to the original settings?
Like, will it also remove the blocked people, and who can contact me settings? |
03-09-2009, 05:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | What's in it when you shut it down will be in it when you fire it up. Nothing will change unless you change it.
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03-09-2009, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | Ah ok, very cool! So none of my settings will change? |
03-09-2009, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | No, of course. not. They don't change unless YOU change them. You can access your accounts like Facebook from any computer in the world and the site doesn't know the difference. Everything that's stored in your computer will stay there.
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03-09-2009, 05:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | Ohhhhh ok, see, I didn't know if like, my settings for AIM, or Myspace were stored on my computer, or if it was all online. |
03-09-2009, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Austin, Texas | | | Hmm. Meh...
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03-09-2009, 05:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chriss62 Hmm. Meh... | ? |
03-09-2009, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by John Deacon Ohhhhh ok, see, I didn't know if like, my settings for AIM, or Myspace were stored on my computer, or if it was all online. | Either it's on your computer or it's stored elsewhere online so it's available whether you're at your computer or not, in which case your login info is your key to it. Nothing is based on your computer's actual location since that would allow anyone who plugged a computer in at your previous location to access all your data — needless to say, this would be bad.
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03-09-2009, 05:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | I just didnt know if all my settings for AIM or myspace got deleted or changed or my blocked users became avaliable if i unplugged my computer. |
03-09-2009, 06:08 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Most of the things you are asking about are not stored on your computer and won't get deleted.
Some of stuff is, but these settings are stored on your computers hard drive as a file which cannot get deleted unless you delete them.
Unplugging your computer has nothing to do with it. Your hard drives stores files much like a cassette tape, or CD. Once it's there it doesn't go away until you make it go away. |
03-09-2009, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | Ok, so unplugging my computer wont do anything. What if its being packed up and moved? Would time be an issue? |
03-09-2009, 06:33 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Ask Eric618, he's our local expert.   |
03-09-2009, 06:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by John Deacon Ok, so unplugging my computer wont do anything. What if its being packed up and moved? Would time be an issue? | why would time be an issue? Why do you think you'd lose settings? this stuff is not saved locally. Reboot after you move and carry on.
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03-09-2009, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | DUDE: ALL of your settings are stored on the SERVER of the service you're using. This is all online. YOU WILL NOT HAVE A PROBLEM.
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03-09-2009, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hover why would time be an issue? Why do you think you'd lose settings? this stuff is not saved locally. Reboot after you move and carry on. | Reboot? You mean just turn it back on? |
03-09-2009, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | yes. the power button.
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03-09-2009, 08:53 PM
|  | NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | | Computers are temperamental. Make sure to introduce it into its new location slowly, or else it might get agitated and choose to mess up your settings. |
03-09-2009, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Lesser Computers are temperamental. Make sure to introduce it into its new location slowly, or else it might get agitated and choose to mess up your settings. | Yeah. This is a very good idea.
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03-09-2009, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London, UK | | | As long as you don't take the computer through any portals in the space-time continuum or anywhere near green kryptonite you should be fine.
If you want to be really sure, just keep watching the holes where you plug in all the wires to make sure that none of your settings leak out. Better still, if you seal it in a stout plastic bag, you should be able to trap any settings that do ooze out and scrape them up with a spoon.
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03-10-2009, 04:05 AM
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