A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers

Barence writes "PC Pro's Steve Cassidy has written a letter on behalf of all the put-upon techies who've ever been called by a friend to fix their PC. His bile is directed at a friend who put a DVD bought on holiday into their laptop, and then wondered what went wrong. 'Once you stuck that DVD in there and started saying "yes, OK" to every resulting dialog box, you sank the whole thing,' Cassidy writes. 'It doesn't take 10 minutes to sort that out; it requires a complete machine reload to properly guarantee the infection is history. No, there is no neat and handy way I've been keeping secret that allows you to retain your extensive collection of stolen software licenses loaded on that laptop. I do disaster recovery, not disaster participation.'"

Comments

whine

[Xtravar]

The only reason people even want to talk to you is your tech skills. Be grateful you took 10 minutes away from your Pokemon collection to learn those skills.

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[DigiShaman]

If the user is that frustrated with technology, we just tell them to get a Mac. Problem solved and we end up both happy.