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    #21
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    i agree with just about everything that was said.. another thing that you never want to uninstall without being a pain in the end is internet explorer 8 after updated. The colors will not work right, screen looks mess up with different things.. and i have seen it happen many times.. If i do a reinstall of a pc, i install IE7 to update it (on the XP end) and then do a manual update, choose just IE8 and when it goes to ask you to install, click dont install. it puts the IE8 update in the recommended and takes it out of the high priority list.

    As for the removed SP3.. well, I would never uninstall a SP from microsoft, especially after it has had updates after that SP unless it is an absolute must. Usually, it causes nothing but problems..

    As for the A+ certification. I am not going to say that the ones that get them are dumb, but most of the people that i see that have them, they are the kind of people that are book smart, but are not good at actually figuring out the problems. When i was in school (CIS Networks degree), in my class, there was 2 sides to the room. We sat where we wanted. all the people on one side were the book smart kind and the other side were the common sense kind. I was on the common sense side and we had no problems doing the work and getting it done. The side with all the book smart people were always asking us for help in getting the work done. most of them on the book smart side got there A+ certifications. most of on the other side did not. I have heard the same response from most computer stores that i have talked to too. I never got mine, but can say with 90% certainty that i would pass with no problems if i tried, but do not care to get it unless i have to. Like they say, just because you can pass a book test does not mean you know the work.. it just means you are good at guessing.

    In any case, in the end, you can back up your desktop icons, you can back up your files, you can reinstall the programs, but if you lack experience and knowledge of fixing the problem right, then later you will just end up making more of a problem and end up needing to reinstall it anyways.. and from the sounds of things, it would like it would be the best thing to do.. just make sue that you reinstall the stuff that she uses so it does not come back with a lot of questions / problems.

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      #22
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      Why is this such a huge issue? Pop the drive in another computer, save all the shit on her desktop, my documents/my pictures/my music etc. and reinstall Windows. Its not a big deal, she can reinstall her iTunes etc.
      Last edited by weirdlookinguy; 01-11-2010, 04:34 PM.

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        #23
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        Thats what it's boiling down too. I tried to explain some of this too him today, just kind of looked at me funny and then asked me to do it.

        I just said "you're the one with the A+ cert..."

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          #24
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          End users have to reinstall their apps. Especially if you're doing it for free or even cheap. Otherwise its a waste of time and a cluster fuck as you can see. He should have learned this lesson by know, I learned it early.

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            #25
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            Originally posted by 370forlife
            Thats what it's boiling down too. I tried to explain some of this too him today, just kind of looked at me funny and then asked me to do it.

            I just said "you're the one with the A+ cert..."

            I would not have the nerve to talk about how good i was or what degrees i have and then ask someone else to fix a mess up with something that i messed up in the field that i... ummm... bragged???? about..

            IT comes right down to what i said earlier... most people (not all, just most) that have their A+ advertise it but yet can not back up their talk.. Its one thing to get the degree, but a completely different thing to back it up..

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              #26
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              and they seem to "advertise" it in the most peculiar time: when it's proven they don't know about the subject...
              then one just wonders how does it help them.
              perhaps it's the last defense mechanism...hehe...

              nowhere else to go, and then they say "ok pal, i have a+ cert. and you don't!".

              and that seems like something seinfeld could make a decent joke about...

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                #27
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                This is why I don't wanna go to college (I graduate this May). I have far more hands-on experience with computers than some bullshit book could ever teach me. I learned out of necessity and the fact that this has been my hobby since I was 8, not because I was sitting on my ass one day and decided to go to ITT Tech after I saw a commercial on TV.

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                  #28
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                  no degree= crap job. im going to college, to be an EE. good money and i am skilled at it already.
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                    #29
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                    Originally posted by i4004
                    and they seem to "advertise" it in the most peculiar time: when it's proven they don't know about the subject...
                    then one just wonders how does it help them.
                    perhaps it's the last defense mechanism...hehe...

                    nowhere else to go, and then they say "ok pal, i have a+ cert. and you don't!".

                    and that seems like something seinfeld could make a decent joke about...
                    but they do have one advantage.. the ignorant people that hire. You got to remember, not all places hire their computer tech's by asking questions that they know the answer to. Just because they hire them does not mean that they know anything about them. I have worked at places like that before.

                    As for the small businesses around here. anyone that advertises it usually does not get the job. The main techs at the place know this fact too. Just glad to know that it is not just in my area that people feel that way.. sad part is i agree with the last 3 posts.. whatever happened to you get the job because you know the work and not because you have a degree??

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