-=PCTechTalk=- Re: AVG HELP PLEASE

  • From: "Hank Smith" <hanksmith5@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:21:13 -0700

eithr way your advice and tech tips are greatly appreciated. amd you keep up 
the awesome work.
Hank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AVG HELP PLEASE


> Hi Sandi,
>    There are different levels of advice just as much as there are 
> different
> levels of ignoring advice.  If I tell you that it's not safe to run your
> system without any AV protection and you ignore that advice, when you come
> back to me in a week with a terribly infected system, I'm not going to 
> feel
> all that sympathetic towards your situation (actually, I'll feel terrible,
> but you know what I mean).  On the other hand, if I suggest that you move
> all of your document files to a second partition, I'm fully aware that
> advice may not fit in well with your situation.  Also, most members fail 
> to
> provide me with ALL of the background info I need to make fully 
> personalized
> recommendations for a lot of things.  The heaviest difficulty I have in a
> group situation is that I must write my suggestions in a way that is 
> geared
> towards not just the person with whom I'm having the conversation, but 
> also
> towards anyone else who might be following along.  I also know that our
> discussions often appear in Google searches, so what I type will be read 
> by
> a number of folks who are discovering the group for the first time and 
> they
> have no clue as to anyone's background here.  Those folks are only looking
> for detailed answers that can get them back up & running with a minimum of
> fuss and they'll automatically choose from the search hits whichever 
> answer
> seems to best fit their sitution.  So, I consistantly try to strike as 
> much
> of a balance between all of these demands as I possibly can.  Of course, 
> I'm
> sometimes more on target than others and I think most of you already know
> all that by now.          :O)
>
>    But that wasn't what I was thinking when I typed that out.  Pat was
> talking about someone she's working with "one on one".  In her case, he's
> getting very specific advice targetted directly to his own situation, but
> he's ignoring it.  I get very frustrated when the same thing happens to me
> with my own customers, family members, etc..  But by no means am I 
> comparing
> that to what happens in group situations.  Apples & Orangutans, my friend.
> LOL
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:03 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AVG HELP PLEASE
>
>
>> Ouch!! I fear I have been one of those in the past and just now did it
>> again.  I already had my call in to HughesNet and I went ahead and 
>> ordered
>> the install.  Of course, different peoples circumstances enter in to 
>> these
>> decisions.  My sons have urged me to get high speed because they know I
>> enjoy my computer and use it a lot.  And they remind me that I am not
>> going
>> to live forever.  Sooo when the sands of time are running and we see the
>> time getting kind of short, we may apt to do things we would not do at a
>> younger age.
>> Anyway, thank you G, my dear friend, for all of your help over the years.
>> Sandi
>
>
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