my rant why do we do it

slap ed · 10 Oct 2006 at 13:53

you have probably all heard it before (you know something about computers can you have a look at mine )and so i ended up with my freinds computer a lovely pentium 2 400 mhz with 256mb ram and a ten gig hard drive .anyway on first boot it literely took twenty minutes to boot up it was that full off viruses and spyware and nine hours later when i had finished after ewido found 306 problems and after that avg found nine trojans two it couldn't heal , it took 1min 23 secs to fully boot (not bad for an old brick ). my point being why do we willingly give up a whole day to help people out , i mean he's a freind so i wouldn't charge him . but lets say you charged him minimum wage nine hours say forty quid he would probably feel narked you would want money (for just looking at his computer) so why do we do it we must be mad . :confused:

slap ed · 10 Oct 2006 at 13:56

Kell_ee001 said:
And breathe.

lol

slap ed · 10 Oct 2006 at 14:01

i wonder if everybody charged for there time how many off these old pc's would end up in the bin

slap ed · 10 Oct 2006 at 14:12

gjrc said:
because thats what makes you his friend, and thats what friends are for

very true , but where do you draw the line a freind off a freind or a freind off a freinds familly you get the picture . i mean i will gladly help anyone to a point

slap ed · 10 Oct 2006 at 15:57

like many on these forums i bet, i got into computers because off games not because off my job and have spent a lot off time over the years learning to solve problems myself . but now i seem to spend less and less of my free time playing games and more and more time helping other people sometimes a little knowledge can be a curse

slap ed · 11 Oct 2006 at 07:37

that wasn't the first time i had looked at this pc ,it seems my job to be the permanent support line for it let me explain that he was given this pc about two years ago and its the only one the family have got (he has got 2 daughters )and doing anything on it is a real pain i mean it took over two hours to defrag its ten gig hd. so when he asked again if i could sort it out i said tell you what i have got spare motherboard and bits all i need is cheap case cheap processor (3000 venice on ocuk at £41)and cheap graphics card i said no more than £100 and ill build you a nice pc .to which he said nah can't afford £100 just fix this one, he expects miracles .