scrabbler1
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I just gotta vent a little bit about my snakebit friend. No, he did not get bit by a snake, I am being figurative, of course. But he is the friend to which all kinds of weird things happen, mainly with his PC. And I have become his personal Help Desk, often making house calls to fix his PC's problems all the time. Once in a while, he can figure things out on his own. Once in a while, I can describe how to fix the problem via email (if he retains email access, sometimes that's the problem) or over the phone. He has a minor speech impediment so understanding him on the phone is sometimes tough.
But he can rarely go more than a month or two without something stupid happening to him or his PC which I have to fix, often with a visit. His PC is fairly new, he bought it in late 2012 and it has Windows 8. It lacks a Start Menu which I became tired of so I found a Start Menu program (ClassicShell) which gave him back a Start Menu. (I hope this is not the cause of his latest problems). My system is Windows 7 so I am not that familiar with the unique things of Win 8.
His email has become very slow and it takes many attempts to send one out since I was last at his place last Thursday when I fixed a few things such as the Start Menu. He has been getting popups with those fake spyware "Scans" with those "Click Here to Fix Your PC" windows he can't get rid of or get rid of easily. Everything was working fine last Thursday. So, why do all these stupid things always happen to him time after time after time, especially after I visit? I don't want to go to his place every week to fix the latest dumbass things which happen to him. It is like he has a sign on his back which says, "PC problems, KICK ME HARD!"
I am simply running out of patience with him and his endless PC problems he always asks me to fix. I told him I'll go to his place next week so he will just have to put up with these problems until then. Or he has to find someone else to help him once in a while. Or he should learn how to fix some of these things himself and not be so reliant on me.
rant over.
But he can rarely go more than a month or two without something stupid happening to him or his PC which I have to fix, often with a visit. His PC is fairly new, he bought it in late 2012 and it has Windows 8. It lacks a Start Menu which I became tired of so I found a Start Menu program (ClassicShell) which gave him back a Start Menu. (I hope this is not the cause of his latest problems). My system is Windows 7 so I am not that familiar with the unique things of Win 8.
His email has become very slow and it takes many attempts to send one out since I was last at his place last Thursday when I fixed a few things such as the Start Menu. He has been getting popups with those fake spyware "Scans" with those "Click Here to Fix Your PC" windows he can't get rid of or get rid of easily. Everything was working fine last Thursday. So, why do all these stupid things always happen to him time after time after time, especially after I visit? I don't want to go to his place every week to fix the latest dumbass things which happen to him. It is like he has a sign on his back which says, "PC problems, KICK ME HARD!"
I am simply running out of patience with him and his endless PC problems he always asks me to fix. I told him I'll go to his place next week so he will just have to put up with these problems until then. Or he has to find someone else to help him once in a while. Or he should learn how to fix some of these things himself and not be so reliant on me.
rant over.