In the last couple of weeks I have had to repair two of my friends windows based PC's.
Friend One.
Says computer is running slow and web browser re-directs to porn sites (no Internet Security installed and I told her to get some installed).
Fixed it and told her (jokingly) that I wanted a £1 for every virus I removed (some 8853 of the bug*ers). Now she has finally listened and has IS installed.
Funny thing is her husband asked me if I could leave the porn sites links on ;).
Friend Two
Says computer runs slow and locks up when he tries to burn a disk and browse the net (or any other activity) at the same time and could I reformat and re-install Windows Vista (it couldn't have been 6 months go when this was last done).
I went round, turned on his machine and a jet fighter sounded quieter on take off than this thing, opened the side and saw quarter of an inch of dust.
Cleaned it out re-started now its quiet. Did disk checks and a clean out. Still locked up when browsing net (or other activities) and burning disk.
Told him it was more like his writer that was on its way, but no insisted on a re-install.
Oooh calls me today and says I was right his writer needs replacing as its just died (probably choked on all that dust) .
And the moral of this tail is "Always have friends that listen, know how to solve computer problems them selves and stop wasting my time when they didn't listen in the first place"
Friend One.
Says computer is running slow and web browser re-directs to porn sites (no Internet Security installed and I told her to get some installed).
Fixed it and told her (jokingly) that I wanted a £1 for every virus I removed (some 8853 of the bug*ers). Now she has finally listened and has IS installed.
Funny thing is her husband asked me if I could leave the porn sites links on ;).
Friend Two
Says computer runs slow and locks up when he tries to burn a disk and browse the net (or any other activity) at the same time and could I reformat and re-install Windows Vista (it couldn't have been 6 months go when this was last done).
I went round, turned on his machine and a jet fighter sounded quieter on take off than this thing, opened the side and saw quarter of an inch of dust.
Cleaned it out re-started now its quiet. Did disk checks and a clean out. Still locked up when browsing net (or other activities) and burning disk.
Told him it was more like his writer that was on its way, but no insisted on a re-install.
Oooh calls me today and says I was right his writer needs replacing as its just died (probably choked on all that dust) .
And the moral of this tail is "Always have friends that listen, know how to solve computer problems them selves and stop wasting my time when they didn't listen in the first place"