Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,
My laptop is home, but she is wounded and not working properly.
I should not have taken her to a repair store without talking to Willy Dunne Wooters first. He had a good experience with this chain of stores, but the place he used is in a different location. The store closer to my home is run by children. They might be self-described nerds, but they are not very responsible nerds.
They want $200 to repair her. Don't tell Lappie that I said this, but she's not worth it. She only cost about $400 in the first place.
Therefore, I'm not spending $200 on her. Yes, I can duct tape her together (it's the bottom case that came apart in one corner), but she'll have to be replaced at some point.
And she is not the same sweet Lappie I took to the store run by child nerds. Ads pop up on her all the time. Notices pop up that say Google is tracking my searches. I know I had some kind of blocker on her, but I can't remember what I did before to make her my darling Lappie.
Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
I bet one of you will remind me how to make her into my Lappie again, or Willy Dunne Wooters will help.
I'm not thinking clearly after my terrible experience with the little boy nerds.
Infinities of love,
Janie Junebug
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$200 is a lot of money!
ReplyDeleteEspecially to repair something that cost $400!
DeleteSorry the "genius children" messes up Lappie.
ReplyDeleteI have my son in Japan click some magic button and he can take over my computer and fix it, so I am no help.
cheers, parsnip
I need a son in Japan. Instead I have one on my couch, but he fixes my car so that's good.
DeleteOh boy, Janie! There is nothing worse than having to deal with computer hassles. I am not a tekkie, so I can't help you with any suggestions. Hopefully you can keep Lappie held together with duct tape until WDW can help. Pop-up ads can be so irritating! Good luck, my friend.
ReplyDeleteDuct tape will be applied.
DeleteI am useless in computer emergencies. I hope you get some help. :(
ReplyDeleteI did!
DeleteWere they "self-described nerds" or were they more a squad of self-described geeks? I don't get it, if you didn't pay the $200, how are there all these changes? You can add an ad blocker for just about any browser. Or, I recommend a VPN. Here's an article about VPNs and why they're good: http://www.cracked.com/blog/you-deserve-best-online-protection-we-got-it-right-here/
ReplyDeleteThey were self-described nerds. I'll never go to that shop again. I don't know how they changed poor Lappie, but they did. Maybe it was as soon as I said I wouldn't pay $200. I have ad-blocker, and it's enabled.
DeleteIt's incredible how much time I spent with aggravating computers. I saved up my mad money and bought a MacBook and I've been very happy with it.
ReplyDeleteI don't have mad money. Feel free to send me some.
DeleteI can only commiserate. I could not get hold of my real guru, so took my computer to a local store. It took my real guru to fix it, for the same amount of money I gave to the little shysters.
ReplyDeleteI won't go to the shysters again.
Deletemalwarebytes.com Use the free version. Download it, run it, tell it to remove all the junk. I don't use virus blocking software because it slows down my computer, but just run scans periodically and get rid of the trash. Also, to avoid getting more junk, don't download things from an unknown source, click on links in emails (unless you know the source), go to gambling sites, porn sites, etc. Any time you download and install something, you risk installing new adware to your computer.
ReplyDeleteDid it, and I'm here responding to comments so it looks as if it worked.
DeleteThe last thing we need are irresponsible nerds!
ReplyDeleteNerds need a chief nerd to hold things together.
Delete"Child nerds." What an appropriate way to describe some of those people. I would only add the descriptor "condescending" to that nickname, and that describes the child nerds at our local big box store.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a big box store, but condescending still applies to them.
DeleteI would assume that a "terrible experience with the little boy nerds" would ruin anyone's day.
ReplyDeleteThe little boys who live behind me are back, too. I thought maybe they had run away from home because I hadn't seen them in so long.
DeleteI am so sorry, Janie! I hope things get straightened out with Lappy.
ReplyDeleteShe's behaving better now.
DeleteSo sorry, Janie. The thing about appliances (yes, even computers are in the end appliances) is that if they didn't cost a lot new, they get replaced rather than fixed. Coming from a culture and a time where everything got fixed until there was practically nothing physical to touch, this was odd to me. But I had to adjust.
ReplyDeleteI hope one of your more techie readers will have a better and much less costly solution for you.
I know what you mean. I don't believe in the whole throw it out and get another one thing.
DeleteGoogle is tracking your searches no matter whether they actually tell you so or not ... and I'm not sure how to block pop up ads but you could Google it ... ironically, of course ... Duct tape has held bigger and broker things together than a laptop; you might get good mileage out of the old girl yet! Young things can work technology so much more easily than us old things, but that doesn't mean they all know how to think. Grr.
ReplyDeleteI think we're back in business now.
DeleteI generally can't see the point in paying someone to repair a laptop because often the cost of repair is nearly as much as the cost of a new one, I am also glad that when mine died Kathy's partner was able to repair it free of charge
ReplyDeleteGlad your laptop is behaving better now, Janie. Just don't do any celebration laptop dancing.
ReplyDeleteGary
I hope it can get healed and all will be well
ReplyDeleteHi Janie - sorry about that .. glad to see you're back in business now though .. duct tape is great stuff!! Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThat is just one of the problems with techy things....the cost to repair verges on the cost to replace. AND none of those costs are all that reasonable. UGH!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry, Janie. That is horrible. Sending you hugs.
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