I was helpin my sister with her computer, and realized that the directions I gave were GEEKED! LOL

Sorry I was speaking geek speak

Here is a website that explains how to improve your computer in language everyone, even my sister, can understand.

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars

It wasn't too terribly geeky. I've heard and do hear much worse every day. My other half is DaGeek.

Now, for the average generic user you may have given one or two a headache. But it *is* a difficult thing to talk someone through that doesn't know what you're talking about let alone where to look for it. I run into that problem on a daily basis as I do callcenter tech support for an ISP. There are just some things I tell the customer they'll either have to bring the machine in or have someone come out and look at it cause it's just too difficult to talk them through it and I certainly don't want to make a problem worse because they didn't fully understand the directions I was giving them. I'm amazed on a daily basis how little most people know about even the basics and don't want to know. They want it done for them but they don't want to pay for it. Sigh.

And of course that doesn't apply to the wonderful people here...because they want to learn! (boy I dodged that one nicely didn't I)

I sure do know what ya mean jarret, all my friends and family use me like the tech line. If I cant talk them through it, or outright fix it, then they go call you lol.

I was trying to help a son and a sister understand how to keep viruses at bay, and also keep there machine running smoothly. When I noticed both of them had this dazed look.

That is when I realized maybe I had everyone here also in a dazed condition lol.

I sure feel for you now that vista is out. Everyone thought it was supposed to be easier, and then found out they have to know how to do certain things just access stuff. This one must keep you on the phone for hours lol.

With Vista I tell them to go back to XP. Vista is *so* not ready for prime time.

I've run in to a number of issues with Vista that are the fault of programming. They built it to be difficult. For instance, if you want the right click and save function to continue to work in IE7 on Vista, do *not* install any kind of toolbar. Sigh.