Whenever someone calls me for advice because their computer is “running slow” I always cringe. This is because usually the culprit is a crap load of spyware running in the background, in addition to the ever-present fragmented file system on their hard drive.
It is like checking the oil on a car. I had a friend once who bought a brand new car. After about a year, I asked him how it was holding up. He said it was great, and he had no problems while putting over 20K miles on the car. I asked him when the last time he had the oil changed was, and he said “you really have to do that? I had no idea. Never been done!”. Incredible, I know.
Well, people not cleaning up the spyware on their computer and running defrag is the same way. It’s unbelievable in this age of oowey-GUI and user-friendly OS, that anyone would not be able to do these tasks on their own. But, then again, that helps keep me in the business.
I guess I may not be joining the ranks of the TV repair man and the Maytag repair man just yet. 