Sometimes it's good to have a squirrel AKA my husband

It is almost 14 years since we bought an iMac. That computer worked flawlessly until a little over a year ago when it suddenly stopped working from one day to the next. It turned out that it was an automatic update from Adobe that had locked the computer. I really loved that computer and was downhearted when it stopped working.

Since then, I have unsuccessfully asked the world's most perfect husband on several occasions for help with factory resetting the computer because I couldn't do it myself. I've had the iMac sitting on my desk because I didn't have the heart to take it to the recycling center for electronic waste. No matter how light and agile my MacBook is, it can never compare to my iMac despite its age.

It wasn't until I told him I was going to unscrew the hard drive and drop off the iMac at the electronics recycling center for electronic waste that the squirrel in him came to life. Immediately he started searching the internet for how to factory reset a very old iMac. Finally, he found a page that very instructively showed us how to proceed.

It worked perfectly so now I have a computer with a large screen which is handy when I need to have several windows open at the same time, for example when I enter our dividends.

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