[zlopikanikanz]

Try and get work done at a small reliable comp store.

They are hard to find but they do exist

[VDAu5p33]

Try and get work done at a small reliable comp store.

They are hard to find but they do exist

Exactly. I'm lucky that one of my buds owns his own little computer repair shop business, and if I needed repair, that's who I'd call. I'd never, ever turn my computer over to random strangers working for a big corp. I don't want strangers looking at pics of my kids or work files on my machine.

[sleelverrex]

My laptop once had a hardware problem and stopped working. It was still under warranty, so what I did was bought a new 2.5" hard drive and sent it in with the laptop to be repaired. I received the laptop back working with a fresh OEM image on it. Switched back hard drives and saved the other one as a backup.

For malware problems, I don't really see how taking it in to someone can be that helpful. Just google your symptoms and run the appropriate malware removal tools. If those don't work you may have to reformat, but in that case, what are the odds the repair guys will be more successful?

[giDdfezP]

Yep, not too smart to take a comp loaded with all that potentially damning info to a place with a bunch of teenagers/twenty somthings and their bald 30 something, "my life is shit so I get over on other people" boss. Not trying to be an asshole but if one knows so much about whats going on why would they leave it in the hands of these people? Their entire day is spent going through peoples hard drives looking for nude shots and the like.

There is really nothing they can do with malware. Like Vacuum said you google the symptoms, run scans, try to isolate the file, and if that doesn't work you reformat. Gotta find a local independent repair shop for any more than that if you can't do it yourself, and they are around. Alot of times they will do the work right in front of you.

[itepearce]

I am lucky in that my lap top repair lady likes me and even if there are 20 comps on the shelf for repair she always takes care of me right away..........went to see her last month and for some reason her boobs looked bigger and rounded and I said "hey honey are you gaining weight or what? your boobs looks bigger" and she says "I had a boob job"......I said "really?" and then reached over to feel them hahahahhahaahah she looked around to make sure that no one was looking and smiled at me

Really Ponce, did you do this?