Last time I was here, I was off to put on my nerd cap and see if I could manage to fix a laptop issue on a computer that Marcel’s neices own. Unfortunately, there is a file either missing, damaged or infected and a crucial file to allow Windows to start.
In the beginning, they didn’t want to lose everything and I definitely don’t blame them, but then they decided they’d deal with it (there wasn’ THAT much on there), and that I could wipe it, but after thinking about it, I refused to do it.
I know they weren’t thrilled about it, because that’s going to mean either finding someone who can do it that they know, or paying someone, but not long after they received the laptop from their grandma (my mom-in-law), I had gone over and set up the printer. Some way or another, other installations of the printer got added, and the default printer setting was changed, causing it not to print. There was something-or-other going on at the time, and I wasn’t able to make it over there when they wanted me to, so they had some friend of a friend look at it (and you know how those things go sometime), and rather than going in, deleting the excess installs and changing the default, he decided that rather than Vista, that the computer needed XP, so he installed XP on the brand new computer, voiding the warranty and everything.
In my eyes, that was about the dumbest thing ever- especially since the problem wasn’t Vista related, but to each his own. I am not going to attempt to repair it now that there has been a conflict or problem when I have NO idea what else this guy did to the computer.
Tomorrow, Marcel will call someone we know who owns a computer shop, and see what he’ll charge to repair it. It isn’t going to be cheap, but I’m not doing it. Maybe they can call the guy who changed the operating system in the first place and let him do it. Lord help them though if they do.