My dad just put me on the phone with his friend for 20 minutes and we discussed his shitty McAfee and the worm he keeps getting and his system restore and explorer crashes.
I would be fine with helping the guy out, BUT I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HOW. Is there some sort of end-all solution to this shit? I feel bad for them and want to help them out, but the only way I could do that would be to go over their house with pirated shit and sit there and delete startup entries and do a scan.
What do you guys do? This shit is such an onus, it gets me so depressed knowing how reliant they are on my silly advice, and it's so time consuming.
P.S. FUCK YOU WINDOWS, THANKS FOR YOUR FUCKING DEFAULT PORT LISTENS REAL FUCKING GENIUS ASSHOLES
Get the XviD codec pack and download VirtualDub - both free. Use Virtual Dub to grab the files. Use XviD video compression and whichever audio compression works best for you. It'll output as AVI, which AVI2DVD or Nero will burn just fine.
I can't remember which audio compression I use at home, but I know it's none of the MPEG based ones, since those desynced the sound when I tried them.
charge them, and make it expensive. if you're going to school you can easily justify it.
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Anonymous2006-08-18 6:47
>>1
After doing what >>4 and >>5 have said, tell them to stop using Internet Explorer, and replace the blue 'e' icons by Firefox links while keeping all the 'e' icons.
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Anonymous2006-08-18 7:00
I started using linux and every time someone comes to me asking to fix their Windows, I say: "I don't know how to, I have been using linux for the last 5 years, you should as well." That shuts them right the fuck up. Fortunately, nobody has ever asked me to fix their linux installation.
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Anonymous2006-08-18 13:25
tell them that their problem is PEBKAC, and that there is no way to fix it.
Pretend you don't know how to fix computers, thats what I always do.
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Anonymous2006-08-18 19:56
>>12
Actually, based on OP, he doesn't know how anyways. He should just say so and save himself the headache.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 5:01
people seem to think that just because you know some things about computers (how to change a video card, for example), you know how to do everything about computers, and therefore can fix any problem.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 7:31
>>12
In my case, pretending not to know is too hard for my egopenis, I must always know anything, so my typical excuse is OMG I'm so busy LOL forgot to do some shit see you later.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 8:01
"The going rate is $50/hr."
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Anonymous2006-08-19 10:48
>>13
Eh, not really. I just threw down some words. What did I say that made you come to that conclusion?
I always fix my friends' computer problems because it's easy and a good reason to hang out. This town is so boring we usually end up doing nothing and going back home.
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Anonymous2006-08-19 14:34
>>17
"I would be fine with helping the guy out, BUT I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HOW."
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Anonymous2006-08-19 22:09
>>21
And you can cure someone of a worm over the phone?
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Anonymous2006-08-20 14:30
Tell him to unplug from the internets & lan & reinstall.
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Anonymous2006-08-20 14:46
>>20
lol, Your "friends" don't hang out with you unless you are fixing their computers. You sound like the typical nerd in an 80s movie.
Tell him to get a new hard drive. Next, after he installs os and updates etc., tell him to get things such as Opera, Adaware, and so on. Finally, tell him that if he doesn't update his software, doesn't run the software AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK, doesn't stop going to websites in hijackable webbrowers like IE, and doesn't stop opening every damn thing he gets in his mail/ running everything he can get his hands on, THEN IT'S HIS FUCKING PROBLEM IF HE CAN'T LEARN. And he should simply not use the internets. If you don't want to tell him yourself, just print the comments from this page, put them in an unmarked evelope, and put the letter in his mailbox... while noone is looking, cause that's a fellony if you're caught 8D
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Anonymous2006-08-21 3:30
>>27
Also tell him of /opt and PROPIETARY software.