How did you find Major Geeks?

From a verbal (telephone) recommendation from friend.

 

Was told by Tim and Jim months before it opened

 

Very helpful, thank you.

 

I was looking around the internet for programs (shareware and freeware; esp. the latter) since I'm such a download junkie. I found out the best of the software out there is right here at my fingertips. I was equally pleased that the software is tested from a message here, I forgot when.

 

Through using Kazaa. Kazaa listed all the best freeware sites on the internet and MajorGeeks was on the list.

 

Kim kamando like 3 years back. Than I forgot site but refound site I think through google search when I was having pc problems. Happy I found it again

 

Short answer: I was searching for answers to some troubleshooting questions and stumbled in here. Noticed the depth of help and the great downloads, and came back until I got hooked and signed up.

Long answer: I'd been a long-time regular at an OLD site called RivaZone that centered around nVidia video cards, although their forum had some great general techies, much like here, today, and some great people. Long after the site lost it's cutting edge news and updates, the forum community remained a great place to hang around. Until the owner finally simply let it die a sudden death. I looked around at a lot of forums and didn't feel at home in any of them until here.

Ironic side note: One of the regulars at RZ was dying of prostate cancer, and had just let us know that the doctors estimated he only had a couple weeks left, and was saying goodby to us. I was literally in the middle of responding to his post when the site died. Never did get to say goodby to him. That still bothers me, a LOT.

 

I think I was searching for tech help for a spyware problem but i'm not sure... it was nearly 3 years ago that i joined....

 

I was a 3dfiles reject.

 

A good friend who has since passed away told me about this place. He said I'd like it, and that's mostly been true.

 

Mr Goldy introduced me first =)

 

Google....

 

I miss Grubblebump too


I was over at the old TweakFiles site, got an email from Tim when he started MG, and it's been all downhill ever since

 

I kept finding myself reading over Eric's shoulder to see what he was laughing about all the time. After a month or so, I got my own username.

Eric found MG after reading about Adaware in a magazine and Googling for a place to download it.

 

What is it?

 

I did not find them they found me i receive and e-mail by tim that the sites re-open on the name majorgeek.com i was on tweakfiles for 2 years....

 

Never found this place, I was born here. I'm a misguided product of numerous users that have come and gone into the ethersphere from here. An extension of those users mental anguish coupled with over-active imaginations of their pets (mainly cats). Can you see my dilemna here? If so please inform me as to the nature of it as I'm unaware of my own existence not to mention my own intellect.














If you have made sense of this then I seriously worry about your sanity. I came here many, many moons ago through some means that are beyond my capability to fathom.

Jack

 

Googling for free software, haven't left since!

 

Well I like to learn all I can about PC's and how to fix problems so I just surf the net asking computer questions. I kept running into the Major Geeks site and started to read there forums,the more I read the more I learned so I join the forum. The site is a great learning tool,also if you need help there are plenty of good people here to help you.
Marlene
Hugssssss

 

Was looking for a place to meet hot nerdy chicks!

Just kidding. Probably was looking for a free download of something.

For a while I would hang out on JeepsUnlimited and PWCtoday forums, but this one wasn't full of annoying kids trying to BS eveyone, so I decided to stick around.

-Steve

 

i bought a new puter a little over a year ago. didn't have a clue how to work it, and was terrified of all the buttons. also bought a digital camera and a psc, only to find that Kodak, windows, and HP don't play nicely together. (something about 'drivers') one of the tech people at one of these companies recommended this site. ive been hooked since. the result is that i am no longer so techno-phobic, and in addition to knowing that i have a vast array of tech help at my fingertips, i have made use of the lounge as everything between my own personal blog, to a source of amusement, to searching info quicker than i can do it on google! i like to think i have made real friends here, and certainly carry the people here in my heart. aloha and may i take this opertunity to thank you all.

 

I was looking for some answers when I was building a computer...after spending ALOT of time over at the Abit forum...I googled something and since I always look at the url of the google link...I was amused by the name of this place!! So, anyway...I registered and then started piddling around a little bit, and once I realized that it was a great bunch of people, I started LMAO while reading in the lounge and was hooked from there on out!!!!

Roger

 

I did a search for computer forums, as I like to learn and read about solutions to problems. Checked out several, but Major Geeks had the most posts daily and the quickest answers to problems. Lurked in the shadows for quite a while, reading and trying to remember what I was learning. Eventually joined and have found everyone to be helpful and courteous!

 

I was looking for software freewares too download and came across majorgeeks. Then forgot about this site after a few dowloads , since I liked this site I googled again and joined the support forums


Brandon

 

Know what you mean. There is a programmer at my work that is pretty OK. In fact she would probably be just average if she were a store clerk or something, but because she's a programmer just adds something.

I've always had a thing for hot chicks with glasses.


-Steve

 

While looking for programs to make life easer….found MG…downloaded several times, everything worked great…..then after finding MG six or seven months later, I clicked on the forum, and found answers to all the questions I had, and then some………lurked in the background as well…..then found something that I knew the answer to……

…….as a by product of this question, “How many people, have you turned on to MajorGeeks?”………..I’ve told 300 or more people about this site……..wobbles

 

every single person i know with a computer! they don't all listen though

 

ya, well, give us a number.......you might have only spoke to three people, and two of them didn't listen......jk.....wobbles

 

searching on google for something don't remember.

haha i tell everyone i know too that has a pc but today i was talking to someone at work and when i said i built my own computer they said "oh so do you think of yourself as a geek" and i said well i am a member of a site call MajorGeeks man he could not stop laughing.

 

probably about twenty or so. have no idea how many researched this site. most people i know with puters fall into two catagories. those that dont know anything, and are therefore nervous of all things 'geek', and those that think they know everything, and therefore think they dont need anything 'geek'
....but hey, 'you can leed a horse to water..."

 

I used to lurk around at Tweakfiles, don't think I ever registered though. I found MG when huntin' down Tweakfiles. I asked on another board & was pointed here.

 

Found this sight surfin around trying to fix the wife's puter for the 50000th time. So when she asks me why I'm always on here i tell her she drove me to it

 

Well I was looking for a good utility program, and I googled it found a reply in one of the forums here. I have been here ever since love the Off base section and way Off base section. I visted the forums often help out when i can, and ask help when I need it. The thing i like about Mg is there are are no immature people that I have seen and everybody helps if a member has a problem.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers. He was an exceptional human being.

 

I actually learned about the site from oldschool g4 (when it was ttv) leo was talin bout this site on tss and i kinda kept it in mind for a while. Then i think i was having a problem with something, remembered this site, and singed up and my question was answered and then some. Im kinda probably the youngest user here. (im a high school sophomore). And i plan on going into the pc field, probably it. So i came here and been hooked ever scince. I also recently started working as an compudoc for hire and come here to stock up on files for myself and when im on the job so i have tools to use when on the job. Found alot of usefull stuff here for myself. Aim fix is a lifesaver for that system guzzler we all call aim. Mine use to like suck like 20 process cycles at a time and be like 20 megs when running aim. After aimfix was run the program is almost weightless on the computer. Also used it to help someone else with an aim problem where they had a worm that would give weird ims. Gave them aimfix and bye bye problem. I can go on forever on how much this site has helped me. Thanks for the many times of dealing with me . And teaching me all this stuff.
-the new tech guy

 

lol what would you expect him to do?


Brandon

 

Oh yeah, same here!!!

 

I used to feel guilty referring people to this site because 95% of the time it was for people having Spyware problems and I knew how overworked Chas & BJ were... But now that we have 3 new Malware Fighters I don't really feel bad about it anymore.

 

I answered this here http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=498840&postcount=28

Though I wasn't a forum member at Tweakfiles, I went to the site quite frequently for some of the freeware to help out a Win95 machine.

 

On anhedonic's post about the malware forum, i would love to give them a hand in there but i dont understand hjt like they do. I use more simple programs like adaware se personal, ms antispy, spybot s&d, probsbly can figure out any av by looking at it, and use trojan hunter. That's it. When it comes to hjt im lost. Love to help anyway i can though.
-the new tech guy

 

Google...searching for spyware solutions.

 

Does this new site mean that majorgeeks will be shut down?
-the new tech guy

 

My perception is that it's a gaming site. MG will stay around for a long time.

 

Posts?

Anyway, I've been going to MG, for quite a bit of time, but, I never really got into the forum side of things. Though, I did notice that ntcompatible links to MG quite frequently. I wondered at the time if there was a connection.

I moved to MG, after hearing a major ban from a particular person from the NTcompatible forums. Can't remember the nick, as of right now.

I'll be here, off and on, for quite some time.

 

I was having some particular problems, and my friend said I would like it here. I had never belonged to any forum, but I found the hospitality here mighty fine.

Now, my machine runs more efficiently, and its is maintained with confidence thanks to MG's downloads and member suggestions. I recommend it often, not that most people listen.

It's nice to have somewhere to turn when the fit hits the shan, too.