Things that non computer techs do/say that absolutley drive you crazy!!!

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: kami

When they highlight everything they read.

I do that (old habit) and I've been using and building PCs for about 7-8 years.

My son does the same thing,used to drive me crazy I spent a fortune on better vid cards and monitors thinking his resolution and text crispness wasn't good enough.

 

[kuk]

Blaming virii for any system malfunction!

 

[Joemonkey]

i've never seen anyone hightlight what they read... is this a regional thing?

 

[SithSolo1]

Ooooooooo, just today my dad was asking me to free up space on his HD.

He told me to delete everything on his desktop because it took up a lot of memory.

 

[dquan97]

when people keep messing up memory vs storage

when IT personnel can't type

 

[Wooster]

People thinks Windows OS and Office Suite as one.

Computer tower case as hard drive.

People thinks laptop as LCD with keyboard.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I know at college the number one thing I hear is "It should be fast enough, it has 60 gigs of memory." Hell, they don't even know what the processor is anymore. When I ordered my computer it had 60 gigs of ram, so it should be fast enough, huh? I remember when mhz where everything, and people didn't even think of things like memory. We corrected them and then some.

 

[DDad]

"Whats a Operating system? (or OS), Oh, Okay, Windows.
(at which point I Prop my feet up, it's gonna be a long one........)

 

[idNut]

I hate people that think they know what they're talking about when they're talking to a teacher and the teacher thinks the kid knows a lot. Drives me nuts. I've heard this kid talking about C and was wrong on practically everything he said then the teacher he was talking to (non-computer) was like "Wow, you're really good in computers, I'm sure you'll go far." My blood was boiling.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Not gonna read the whole thread but:

- calling HDD space RAM or even "memory" ("I have 80 gigs of memory" :roll
- touching a monitor with their fingers (hell even jerks in my CS classes do this is the labs)
- calling flat screen monitors flat panels, and vice versa

 

[J3anyus]

People who always close everything (even explorer windows) by going to file -> exit. Alt-F4, dammit!

Originally posted by: Ime
People who have no concept of cleaning their keyboards or mice.

I hate hate hate touching filthy keyboards and mice! Gross!

You should see some of the things I encounter. I have had to clean out fungus growing inside of computers on more than one occasion.

 

[kduncan5]

People who can't comprehend basic computer maintenance. They wonder why their PC is so slow and I say, Well let's take a look. MSCONFIG reveals they have 25 unneccessary programs running at startup with only 64mb of RAM. Their temp folder is filled up with 10 years worth of useless redundant temporary files, their Temporary Internet Files folder has never been cleaned out. A download of AdAware or Spybot reveals their PC has 127 spyware references, either in files or in the registry. They have NEVER EVER updated ANYTHING from Windows Update.....and they're running Windows ME..... And they know nothing about ScanDisk or Defrag:|

And that's just for starters!:Q -kd5-

 

[Metalloid]

Another one that I can't stand is when people interchange online and "offline." IE: "I got that file offline."

Also, a few weeks ago I was talking to a fellow classmate who is also a junior at my HS. I asked him about his system, and he proceeded to tell me that he was running a P3 with PC2100 DDR RAM. I got a good chuckle out of that. Then he proceeded to tell me that I shouldn't overclock because I will fry my system. Yeah like I will listen to him after that statement.

 

[bozack]

When I used to work for the government many many many people used their recycle bin as temp storage...I remember one tech emptied someones recycle bin and it had a good deal of confidential classified info in there because the user was a moron, even though technically it was the users fault for storing items in the recycle bin the tech almost lost his job...scary.

Biggest pet peeve is the "what version of windows are you running?" to which they respond "97"

either that or when users would put CDs into the 5 1/4 drives on their computers (older machines) so I would have to pull apart the drive to remove the CD....pretty annoying

 

[outriding]

i just got my mcse !

and they have no idea on how to reload an OS

 

[freegeeks]

When I was doing tech support

Me: Can you start your Internet Explorer now
Customer: Ugh, Internet what...
Me: The Big Blue E on your desktop
Customer: I don't have that!!!
Me: The Big Green N ????
Customer: Oh, Thanks it's working again

Another one

A couple of years back I helped a really old guy with his ADSL connection when I worked for an ISP (we are talking 1999-2000 here - broadband was not yet a big thing over here). After reinstalling some drivers and the PPPoe software everything seems to work again. I could ping his IP but to be sure I just asked him to surf around. He starts IE and gets his homepage. So I ask him to surf to another webpage. Then we had this conversation.

Customer:"What do you mean with going to another webpage"
Me: "Well Sir, you have like this space on top where you can type, it says something like http://www........
Customer: "Oh yes I see it"
Me: "Can you change that for me to http://www.intel.com and then just hit Enter"
Customer:"Oh my god -- I have an other page now, it's all blue and different from the Internet[TM]"
Me: Yes isn't it wonderfull -- Have a nice day sir (click)

This was the first time that he saw something else then his home page. That old fart was convinced that his home page WAS the internet and he was using a nice 1 megabit adsl connection to surf to this homepage every day for the last year.

Doing helpdesk is more like kindergarten.