Good use of a hammer on a PC

Don't make me say it again. True story:



We recently had a client that needed us to transfer her e-mailbox from one system to another. Again, not to be too technical, this becomes difficult if the mailbox is really big. We usually start by asking the user to delete unneccesary items and empty the junk mail folder to reduce the size.

I got a call from the technician to say that he was unsure how to delete the 19,000 spam messages from the user's inbox. 19,000 spam messages. The inbox would barely open. The ability to scroll through the messages was impossible.

Q: How could he delete the messages?

A: Set a hammer on the delete key and come back the next day.



It worked! I have photos to prove it.