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'Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.'

this. Sigh. The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.

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Have you tried setting her up with a standard user login by default? I did that with my folks and the number of computer questions seems to have gone way down.

In addition to that, uBlock/adblock also seems to take care of most toolbar/malware pop ups that parents tend to fall for.

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