When I was in England recently my sister, Jacquie, had problems with her laptop. As we both needed it for our notes for Convention and to check e-mails we took it into a local computer shop to find out what was wrong. It turned out to be something simple to do with the timing out when it was on sleep. For £65.00, he didn't exactly fix it but did tell us how to short circuit the problem when it happened again as soon as we got it home.
As part of our discussions with him he said that we needed to remove all the software off the computer and reload it (did we also need to reformat the hard-drive too?). This should be done every six months. He was willing to do that for us too, for a price. We declined. As Jacquie is not logged into Lace or Chat on her laptop while living with my dad she asked if I'd write to chat on her behalf to ask if anyone else does it. Is this something that seriously needs to be done or is it a scam he has thought up to make money. She has been pondering on it and thought that when you remove stuff you still always leave a footprint, so if you are constantly removing and reloading programmes, there'd surely be loads of extra bits floating around which would make the matter worse not better. She has had the laptop since 2004 so according to him it should have been done 6 or 7 times by now. She is not aware of it being any slower than it ever was; it seems to hesitate when the fan comes on/is about to come on, but it always has done that. Your thoughts would be most helpful. Thanks Malvary in Ottawa where the snow piles are slowly melting, but it is supposed to be up to 20c by the end of the week To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
