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Originally Posted by kbs666
...but it was amazing how completely computer illiterate this person was in 2000 or 2001.
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How old were they? My late mother (died in 2011 at the age of 87) had a computer she'd bought on the advice of a neighbour, and she was pretty good at sending and receiving emails, right up until she got to the point that she was confined to bed. She could also do simple searches using google. Though do note: never, ever give an elderly hypochondriac google. As you value your and her doctor's sanity, just don't do it.
But there was no way on earth she would have been able to do anything around editing inside config files or using regedit. Anything like that was way, way beyond her understanding and she would have been terrified she'd be launching missiles over Birmingham.
Even I think twice about doing that kind of thing, and I've been using computers since the mid 80s. Plus, when I worked I had colleagues younger than me whose understanding of their computers was way, way less than mine.