Everyone's Computer...

I presume from what I read on the Tech site that I am not the only one to find that each new day gives me another challenge to solve or overcome. It is fairly unusual for me to go just one day without coming across something to make me think; if I do get one day without solving something, the following day will contain a major crisis!
Has anyone one out there come to the same conclusion as me: at least it keeps my mind active and "young" dealing with computers, viruses and software? LOL
I have a blast taking bytes, chips and bugs and trying to explain to a non-techie what it means; that can keep anyone young right there! Do you feel the same?

Today I will share with you a mystery: a toddler is playing with her pc, we finish doing her learning programs, I turn me back for about 2 minutes and voila!! All her computer and music disks dissappear! Do you have any solutions to offer in this mistery? lol

Well, it took me about two weeks to solve the mystery (yes I did find them and they still work! amazing!), but i will fill you in on the home office setup first. I have three units here, one business/not online Dell, one generic AMD with XP for training in home and with the *works* that is online and finally a Compaq tower (fairly well powered up) that is not online for the toddlers "puter"...to get her to stop trashing MY units! I got tired of finding my Dell with 98SE crashed because she took out the game disk without exiting/plastic circles in the CD rom drive and quarters in the floppy drive!

My units are fairly well designed, there are not really any gaps in the drive bays worth notice; but the Compaq has fairly large gaps between the bays....you guessed it! I just gave the answer to the missing disks! She had inserted all 10 (!) CD's into the gaps! I did not expect any of them to function when I took the tower cover off and extracted them...but they work fine! Imagine that!

My synopsis is: children and computers dont mix well...dont turn your back! Not for even one second!

Any stories out there to tell about the bad mix?

Sincerely, Sandra