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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To unsubscribe or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: > pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------