The Power User, as mentioned in the Tech Forum, can be one of the biggest enemies of the I.T. dept. Here's a situation I run into constantly.
Them: My computer is freaking out on me! Your program won't work, it's got a bug.
Me: What's going on?
It's too hard to explain, you just need to see it.
OK, let me finish up with Mrs. _______ and I'll be right down.
....
Hi there, what's up?
See this? (Points to the general area contaning her desk and computer from about 20' away)
umm....
Try to open ______ program
OK, it's open
Now see how everything is slow?
Hmm, yes. Have you installed any other programs lately?
Oh no, not in about a month
It looks like your changing wallpaper program is slowing things down a bit, the "unicornwallpaperz.com". When was that installed?
This morning
...OK, yeah, it's set to change the image every 10 seconds. That's kind of loading you down right there.
Can't you guys make it so it doesn't slow down your program so much?
Well, we'd have to ask the programmers at Unicorn Memories Inc. It seems everything was running fine until their progr-
Well my Aunt showed me this program and said it doesn't give her any problems.
Yes, but I doubt she runs ______ program on top of it on her home computer.
You see, me and her (She and I) are really quite tech savvy.
(She begins to talk about her blog)
Well here's the deal, since you can't really see your wallpaper when this program window is up anyways, howz abouts we take some of the still images and just make a screensaver out of that?
(going completely over her head, but she nods in agreement just so she can wait for a chance to interrupt)
I was reading about some tweaks that you can do to the Registry that Microsoft doesn't want you to know about that will make your computer faster.
Me:
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