omg....I called the geek squad yesterday and they came out tonight and in less than an hour I am running really fast, I have my sound that disappeared last week out of the blue and my ethernet restored. If anyone needs some work I highly recommend them !! Not cheap but quick and easy. If interested I'll divulge my double secret agent's name.

missjtiger Wrote:omg....I called the geek squad yesterday and they came out tonight and in less than an hour I am running really fast, I have my sound that disappeared last week out of the blue and my ethernet restored. If anyone needs some work I highly recommend them !! Not cheap but quick and easy. If interested I'll divulge my double secret agent's name.

How much money did they take you for?

$159 total and worth every single penny since I didn't have to unplug all this crap and then wonder how long they would keep it. The guy did his undergraduate at Memphis and is headed to U. of Houston law school in 2 weeks....real nice guy. Of course he loves dogs and really liked meeting my KoKo.

What's wrong with our law school?

I asked him that and he said " Houston is rated alot higher." whatever.......

It's really freaking me out how fast everything is now. It had really gotten slow and I mean slow.

missjtiger Wrote:I asked him that and he said " Houston is rated alot higher." whatever.......

But we've got more crooks.

Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

maybe I was lucky ? he sure fixed me right up in no time. I am so completely computer illiterate that it's shameful.

missjtiger Wrote:

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

maybe I was lucky ? he sure fixed me right up in no time. I am so completely computer illiterate that it's shameful.

$159 worth of lucky.

I saw the title of the thread and thought the queen muther had decided to develop a separate hierarchy.

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

Neither am I but I am glad MissJ got sped up a little bit.

mairving Wrote:

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

Neither am I but I am glad MissJ got sped up a little bit.

I am too and that is all that really matters. But it rubs me the wrong way when people get overcharged for things like this. Speed is one of the quickest issues to correct and in no way should contstitute a bill of $159 unless they came out and rewired everything and increased her bandwidth.

tigerstothehouse Wrote:

mairving Wrote:

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

Neither am I but I am glad MissJ got sped up a little bit.

I am too and that is all that really matters. But it rubs me the wrong way when people get overcharged for things like this. Speed is one of the quickest issues to correct and in no way should contstitute a bill of $159 unless they came out and rewired everything and increased her bandwidth.

It was $59 plus a $100 gas surcharge. What they most likely did was monkey with startup programs. Generally the No.1 thing I do to speed a computer up is to remove McAfee or Norton and load another AV that doesn't eat up the resources and try to control everything. Getting rid of quicktime, realplayer and AOL can also be helpful. I suppose for that price they could also have stuck another stick of RAM in there too.

mairving Wrote:

tigerstothehouse Wrote:

mairving Wrote:

tigerstothehouse Wrote:Not a big fan of Geek Squad. Know a few people whose pc's they have destroyed. Good thing I am a comp engineer and can fix my own pc when it has problems and save a lot of money and time.

Neither am I but I am glad MissJ got sped up a little bit.

I am too and that is all that really matters. But it rubs me the wrong way when people get overcharged for things like this. Speed is one of the quickest issues to correct and in no way should contstitute a bill of $159 unless they came out and rewired everything and increased her bandwidth.

It was $59 plus a $100 gas surcharge. What they most likely did was monkey with startup programs. Generally the No.1 thing I do to speed a computer up is to remove McAfee or Norton and load another AV that doesn't eat up the resources and try to control everything. Getting rid of quicktime, realplayer and AOL can also be helpful. I suppose for that price they could also have stuck another stick of RAM in there too.

If you weren't the village idiot, you could come in handy in the Security department.

so I guess I got ripped off ? Guys, you have to understand this one important thing.....I'm old and stupid. I had lost my ethernet and my sound and I didn't have a clue why ? I was slow as molasses and knew I had a ton of crap on my computer that I didn't need that was partly the cause. I really didn't want to start deleting things that I didn't know what they were. I thought at first that I would ask for help here but then just decided to bite the *expensive* bullet and hire a professional. If any of you know of someone willing to clean up my messes periodically by all means spill it. Hopefully you aren't an ax murderer or a psycho.

I don't think you got ripped off. If you think you got your $159 worth by not having to unplug it, take it in, wait a few days, etc, then by no means you got ripped off.

RationalRebel Wrote:I don't think you got ripped off. If you think you got your $159 worth by not having to unplug it, take it in, wait a few days, etc, then by no means you got ripped off.

that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

sounds like money well spent vs the aggrivation to me.

just know that geek squad is watching everything you do on it now via the spyware they install.

tigerjeb Wrote:sounds like money well spent vs the aggrivation to me.

just know that geek squad is watching everything you do on it now via the spyware they install.

Actually, I can't beleive they're still allowed to operate. There are cases pending on the west coast that accuse Geek Squad of downloading a particular virus that only they can remove. This ensures that you will be coming back for their services for some time to come. I wiss you luck with this missj, but keep your checkbook handy.