Fix someone's PC., and you are more likely to get cursed than thanked!

[glen]

My sister took pictures of her kids with their digital camera, and never could figure out how to view them. Over Christmas I set them up, and put the free version of ACDSee on their PC. I just got an angry email from her about how she can?t see any pictures on her PC and it wants her to buy something. I have had a fully paid for version of ACDSee on my PC for years and years now, so I have no idea what anyone else uses to view pictures because that is really the only way I have used for so long. Is there something built into windows or free software I can tell her to get?

 

[DurocShark]

Yep.

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Yep.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Yep.

 

[OverVolt]

Tell her to shove the mouse.... nevermind

Don't bother. my friend begsme to work on his dell PII 400 and he wants me to at least put in a 56k modem (he has 28.8k) but it's not worth it.

 

[FleshLight]

1. Install Camera drivers
2. Set Windows XP to automatically download images to My Documents/My Pictures
3. Hook up camera to pc.
4. ...

 

[Crucial]

For sure.

 

[ElFenix]

windows pictar and fax viewer to the rescue!

 

[Colt45]

"STFU whiner" works well.

 

[Kasper4christ]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1. Install Camera drivers
2. Set Windows XP to automatically download images to My Documents/My Pictures
3. Hook up camera to pc.
4. ...

4. profit?

 

[T2T III]

Why didn't you just install the software that came on the CD with the camera? Probably a light version of some well-known software. That way, you could just tell her to call the support line for the digital camera if she's having issues.

 

[her209]

Tell her you found some "interesting" pictures on her computer and leave it at that.

 

[quizzelsnatch]

Originally posted by: Kasper4christ

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1. Install Camera drivers
2. Set Windows XP to automatically download images to My Documents/My Pictures
3. Hook up camera to pc.
4. ...

4. profit?

daaamn. i wanted that one. curse your kasper. curse you.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I installed some Windows Updates, and SP2 on my uncles computer. Internet was working fun. Uncle calls me up and blames me for his internet not working. Turns out he had many viruses, in just one day. Not sure what his kids are doing to his comp, but I was blamed for it.

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: Thin Lizzy
I installed some Windows Updates, and SP2 on my uncles computer. Internet was working fun. Uncle calls me up and blames me for his internet not working. Turns out he had many viruses, in just one day. Not sure what his kids are doing to his comp, but I was blamed for it.

exactly.

Then what you do: tell him to screw himself for being ungrateful

NEVER WORK ON NON_COMPUTER PEOPLES PC'S!!!

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: glen
I have had a fully paid for version of ACDSee on my PC for years and years now, so I have no idea what anyone else uses to view pictures because that is really the only way I have used for so long. Is there something built into windows or free software I can tell her to get?

Irfanview - I have ACDSee, too, but I still use Irfanview for some things, and I install it on every computer I set up for people. I was just using it earlier for, oddly enough, browsing through hundreds of sound effects files because I couldn't figure out anything better at the time.

 

[Gurck]

XNview owns.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1. Uninstall ACDSee software from the computer
2. Tell sister to go F* herself
3. Profit.

Fixed.

 

[helpme]

I don't help people anymore because of that

iPhoto for me... I don't really organize any of my photos on my PC.

 

[Mo0o]

The default window's thing is pretty easy to choose. Now i just drag and drop the pictures straight from the camera

 

[Shawn]

tell her to buy a new computer

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: Kasper4christ

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1. Install Camera drivers
2. Set Windows XP to automatically download images to My Documents/My Pictures
3. Hook up camera to pc.
4. ...

4. profit?

This is PC repair for friends and family

There is no profit.

 

[jst0ney]

Originally posted by: OverVolt

Originally posted by: Thin Lizzy
I installed some Windows Updates, and SP2 on my uncles computer. Internet was working fun. Uncle calls me up and blames me for his internet not working. Turns out he had many viruses, in just one day. Not sure what his kids are doing to his comp, but I was blamed for it.

exactly.

Then what you do: tell him to screw himself for being ungrateful

NEVER WORK ON NON_COMPUTER PEOPLES PC'S!!!

agreed. It has caused me more headaches than any computing problem of my own.

 

[lavagirl669]

agreed....I never hear the end of it when something goes wrong
with family member's PC's I've built.

The last one was a lightning strike which fried the Mobo.
I asked about surge protection, they said they had a great surge protector and that
there was NO way the lightning strike could have gone through....

I went to look at it, duh....they had one of those powerstrip type surge protecters
Hooked them up right away with an APC- unit.

it never ends.....don't do it!

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Yep.

word.