Why my best friend always criticizing me that I want to fix his computer?

Question

My best friend owns his Dell XPS 600 in late October 2005. His XPS 600 used to be fast in late 2005, but few months later his computer is becoming old and slow because the new games were far more advanced, new graphics, and very complex now. His computer can barely play these next-gen games like Oblivion. My brother and I built our own-custom gaming computer. We built it in Christmas 2005. Our gaming computer is 2X powerful than my friend's. My friend want me to tweak his computer like new tweaks driver for his graphic card (Nvidia Geforce 6800) and overclocking configuration. It runs perfectly and almost becoming to par as our gaming computer. Few weeks later, my friend's computer screwed up. My friend started to blaming me what I did some tweaking for his system. I told him that I didn't tweak his WHOLE system, but just for his video card. He misunderstood me. My friend started to reinstall the old driver (77.79). Today, he still use the same driver and his games is slower as hell!

His computer getting slower and older now. I found out his computer using the worst Antivirus program, Norton Antivirus. I know this antivirus program very well and it does happened to my dad's computer and totally screwed my dad's computer. I found the evidence that causes my friend's computer. I tried to make my friend to understand me, but he don't believe me. I told him if he still using his Norton Antivirus and it will contiune screwing his computer up until his computer will be out of comission. Every time, his computer always alerting him that virus infected inside his computer. I told him everything what is going to happen to his computer if he still using Norton Antivirus and he don't believe me!!!

Answer 1

Nicholas - you have learned a valuable lesson in life. Never ever fix anything for a friend that is complicated - car - tv -stereo - computer - telephone - etc as they will use it the same way that broke it in the first place and then blame you even if it is years later. Most people never ever do the simplest routine maintenance like disk cleanup and disk defragmenter and these really should be done weekly. Then the insides should be cleaned with spray air every couple months to end heat problems. And you should add a program that cleans old files completely out of your computer and use that weekly too. Run the full spyware and virus programs weekly. Many things must be done to keep the computer cleaned up and running fast. Your friends problem is probably his failure to do maintenance but - as you know he blames you and will not listen to reason. So let him go with the way things always are and then when he sees what your computer will do tell him he needs to have his fixed at a shop as he does not take responsibility.

Answer 2

It happens man. I have worked on the computers for teh better part of 13 years now and I do alot of work for family and friends. I dont care if it is one year from the date you worked on it if a computer breaks you will 9 times out of 10 be blamed for it*LOL*. No seriously it is not that bad but ppl to tend to blame the computer guy that last worked on it if something else breaks. It doesnt have to even be related to the same problem but most ppl (unless they know something about computers) only see thier computer is broke and you where suppose to fix it. Good luck

Answer 3

One important lesson you guys will learn.
Never offer to fix a friends computer, or let your friends fix your computer, most of the time, it ends in tears.

Plus there are a fault on the XPS build around that time, I just had to arrange for an engineer to replace one of our customer's XPS, checking the forums, so many have board probs with this model.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Whatever you do... Don't offer to tweak his machine anymore. You already know that he'll blame you for any future problems.

Let him handle his own speed issues from now on.

Answer 6

it is easier to blame someone else for "OE" Operator error - plus suggest to your friend to check Answers so they can see how many people have issues with Norton ........

Answer 7

all dells suck