Re: OT:My first home support call (laugh, I could have cried)

"johannes" <johs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46F2AB92.2F0A88E5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Mike Roman wrote:

"johannes" <johs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> /Tx2 wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:56:49 +0100 RCE Defiant
>> from the village of peterstonesfcuk@thespam
>> felt we might be interested in the following...
>>
>> > Goes to this man's house. PC would not start at all. Swapped out >> > the
>> > PSU,
>> > jobs a good'un. Then he tells me this tale about how a guy from Sky
>> > came to
>> > do his broadband recently and while he was there said that the man's
>> > machine
>> > was running a bit slow and that for £50 he would sort it out, to >> > which
>> > the
>> > man agreed. The Sky guy then proceeded to nuke this mans legit >> > install
>> > of
>> > Windows XP Home and install a none legit copy of Windows XP Pro.
>> > Killed all
>> > his apps that he had on and data and left him with a bog standard
>> > install of
>> > Pro complete with WGA pop-ups and everything! If someone can get >> > £50
>> > for
>> > making a *** heap of a mess, god knows what someone doing it >> > properly
>> > should be earning!
>>
>> Also demonstrates what you are up against, as believe you me, Joe >> Public
>> will sooner ask someone to do it for £50 all in, than the £150 worth >> of
>> time (and the rest) it will take you to do it.
>
> Shows that it is better to sort out the problem by yourself. Don't > trust
> a PC repairer from the local classified pages.

Whu? And if you don't know enough to sort it out yourself?

Then I'll read about it. If the PC repairer knows, then the knowledge is
out there. So far so good.


And what happens when you don't have months or years to acquire the knowlege that a good PC repairer has?

--
Alex

New laptop - Sig missing

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