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The dumbest/funniest computer thing you ever had to help someone with

ShaunOfNintendo
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NOTE: I posted this over on the General Discussion form earlier, but was told it would better posted here, but I'm not sure how to delete the other post so sorry for the dupe


 


 


So after looking at a recent poll on this form called Who is the most tech savvy in your family? and seeing every reply saying "Me!" I got a little curious.


What would you guy consider one of the dumbest, or funniest, computer related thing you've ever had to help someone less computer literate with?


 


Here's my story:


My neighbor called over to me one day telling me that an old friend of his was having computer issues saying that everything was running slow. So I went to take a look expecting to just come in, run some hard drive cleaning software, some anti-virus scans and be on my way.


 


I sat down at the computer and my neighbor's friend said "All these pages I go to load really slowly".


He was using Internet Explorer.


I took a second to explain to him why it was slow and that he should use a different browser (keep in mind, he was using windows XP and had like 1GB of RAM), to which he replied "Oh, I had no idea there were other browsers"


 


I promptly took all of his bookmarks from IE, downloaded Firefox (Or Chrome, I can't remember), put bookmarks back and let him try it out.


 


He replied "WoW! What a difference!"


 


I laugh and sigh a little as I walk towards the door to leave only to be stopped by him handing me €20 for what I did.


 


I did not deserve €20 for that


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Paste as plain text is the best thing ever. 

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I got 100$ for putting a computer into safe mode and running avast. 80$ for taking a password off a machine.

Tech support overpays so much. Love it

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I get this all the time using voice chat. Turns out 95% of PC users with headsets/mics don't know that Windows has a volume slider for mic levels and boost. I tell them to adjust their volume and they're all like "BUT... HOW?!?!?!?"

Git Gud.

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An ex GF of mine couldn't work out why her sons guitar hero guitar wasn't working ...she had the batteries in the wrong way around.

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They didn't know you could turn off the computer with the power off button in Win7, they thought they had to click the power button on the computer itself.

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One of my friends asked me to help remove viruses off his computer, so loaded up the internet on his computer to see what it was doing / download relevant software, and when it loaded it pulled up his last closed page - Porn..... went to a new tab page, 90% of the pages suggested were some fucked up porn sites..... Anyway yeah, got it sorted but dam was he embarrassed by the porn stuff, don't know if he just didn't think about it still being there or what.

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One of my friends asked me to help remove viruses off his computer, so loaded up the internet on his computer to see what it was doing / download relevant software, and when it loaded it pulled up his last closed page - Porn..... went to a new tab page, 90% of the pages suggested were some fucked up porn sites..... Anyway yeah, got it sorted but dam was he embarrassed by the porn stuff, don't know if he just didn't think about it still being there or what.

 

It's funny when people don't know that there's a "History" option in their browsers lol

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My friend was finishing up building a PC, then he proceeded to turn in on when out of the blue the magic smoke came out of a hard drive adapter lol.

 

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+9001 to this.

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My grandma was complaining about how slow her computer was and wanted me to look at it.  First problem, It was about 8 years old.  Secondly, It was a store bought computer with tons of bloatware (I'm talking about 15min boot up time because of so much crap).  Third, It was running on Vista and she always used IE.  I tired to uninstall the bloatware and run ccleaner but it was already too far gone. Took out the GPU and it's a Nvidia Geforce G100.  I'm keeping this for LAN party jokes but the rest of the desktop, I got a nice 12 gauge to use on it. So I built a new desktop for $280.  Still trying to teach her how to use chrome and windows 8 but most of my tech work is for her.  

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An ex GF of mine couldn't work out why her sons guitar hero guitar wasn't working ...she had the batteries in the wrong way around.

Nice computer man...

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My uncle wanted me to come over to send a email with a attached photo. I tried my best to tell him how to do it on the phone but NOOOO I HAD TO COME

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I was once asked to remove the virus' off a friends computers (which she shared with her mum). I brought another friend along because we were going to hang out afterwards. So i was busy deleting all these virus' and everything was deleted nicely but my friend decided to look through their browser history (it was on her mums account) and there were some dating sites, so my friend opened one and like a pop browser had like a bunch of Female lower privates pop on onto the screen and we all screamed and rushed to close the window, after we had to explain what happened to her.... she never touched that laptop again. 

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I Got $50 For Putting The Side Panel On........They Put The Screw Then The Side Panel On,Easiest $50

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