Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 110704	2010-06-29 01:37:00	PC Technician in North Canterbury - any recommendations?	John H (8)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1114336	2010-06-29 01:37:00	Hi Do any of you from this neck of the woods have a recommendation for a local PC tech? I went into one place this morning, waited for ages because there was no-one available to serve me. Whilst waiting, I heard the plonker in the shop saying that the technician working on her PC strongly advised her to remove her free anti virus programme (AVG Free) because it isn't good enough "it is free for a reason", and install a paid security suite to get proper protection. I didn't hear which one they were recommending, but there was a big display of Nortons in the shop. He said they would charge ?$70 for the programme, and half an hour of their time for installation, plus there would be an annual subscription. I don't mind people saying there are other programmes better than AVG Free, but the lame brained reason that it is no good because it is free isn't good enough. :annoyed: I felt like telling the woman that she was dealing with an unethical self serving plonker, and not to follow the recommendation, but years of indoctrination into polite behaviour stopped me. Sigh. :blush: I walked out. If they are like that, I am not going to let any of my gear anywhere near them. So, if any of you know an ethical, professional, customer centred technician in North Canterbury, I would value your recommendation!	John H (8)
1114337	2010-06-29 01:43:00	some yrs ago a ISP said to me is my computer made out of cheap parts, lol. i just pretended i didn't know. he does joe bloggs know that - Dell? blemin great piece of hardware i say. :lol:	Nomad (952)
1114338	2010-06-29 04:21:00	I felt like telling the woman that she was dealing with an unethical self serving plonker, and not to follow the recommendation, but years of indoctrination into polite behaviour stopped me . Now I would have told her that . They need rescuing . I don't know anyone in Canterbury sorry, someone else here may do . You could ring various ones and ask them what anti-malware they recommend as a test . . . . . . . .	pctek (84)
1114339	2010-06-29 04:27:00	Thanks pctek. Now that is a good idea about testing them over the phone. One should learn from these unpleasant little insights...	John H (8)
1114340	2010-06-29 05:01:00	Thanks pctek. Now that is a good idea about testing them over the phone. One should learn from these unpleasant little insights... And I like to ask them some tricky thing. My PC has done XXX, what do you think it could be? Weeds out the cowboys.	pctek (84)
1114341	2010-06-29 05:14:00	And I like to ask them some tricky thing. My PC has done XXX, what do you think it could be? Weeds out the cowboys. Ha! The cowboys probably know more than I do so that might not work! I have a Fujitsu Lifebook that is about 5 years old. I want to replace the hard drive and migrate everything over to the new drive. I don't have the confidence to a. buy the right replacement drive, and b. fiddle around in the innards of this tiny laptop. It is one of those things that has a 10.6 inch screen. I have replaced the RAM, so I can get into it, but that is the limit of my ability I think...	John H (8)
1114342	2010-06-29 06:40:00	There's a challenge for you pctek, give him a step by step guide.	Driftwood (5551)
1114343	2010-06-29 07:25:00	There's a challenge for you pctek, give him a step by step guide. I could but he isn't keen. Besides he'd need something else to connect the drive to, so he can image it and then image it back to the new one. Which would involve more hardware.	pctek (84)
1114344	2010-06-29 07:48:00	Would be quite easy -- having another PC to do the clone would be handy, but not having one is not a problem either. All you would need is some free trial software ( thinking of one in particular I'm using these days ;) ) A USB drive with enough capacity to take an Image of the current system and away you go. Hardest part would be changing over the existing drive (once again easy enough). BUT if not to keen to change drives then thats a hurdle.	wainuitech (129)
1114345	2010-06-29 08:04:00	And I like to ask them some tricky thing. My PC has done XXX, what do you think it could be? Weeds out the cowboys. i guess many diff professions would just say to the customer, we really have to see it first to give you an assessment.	Nomad (952)
1 2 3