I kind of know what you mean, Kent. My father is somewhat like that. He called me up just the other day and asked me if I knew where the file he just downloaded is. HOW SHOULD I KNOW!!! He asks how he can find it on his computer so I ask if he has done a search for it. Yes, he tried that but it didn't show up. He then says that he can only download it once per day and asks if he should try it again tomorrow. I have learned to take a deep breath, several actually, and just try to come up with suggestions. I mean, I don't even know what the heck it is he is trying to get, I don't live in the same house and/or use that computer and he asks ME if I know where the file is. This is the computer that he got, without telling me that he is looking for one, where he didn't get any of the software discs that should have come with it, no manual to even say what is in it and it didin't even have all the internal cables hooked up to the sound card like it should have. But guess who he called to try and figure out how to make it work. That's right boys and girls, ME!
On another note. He connects his PC to his radios for some kind of communication thingy that I have no clue, and don't care about. He goes on and on about how this one program, one that I know absolutely nothing about, doesn't work and asks me why it doesn't. He says that it will work on his , get this, Pentium 133 Compaq laptop running 98 but won't work right on his slightly faster desktop running XP Pro. Yes, it is barely powerful enough to run XP. He then says that other people are getting it to run on their desktops running Home. I tell him, not for the first time, that he ought to just get a new PC and then he wouldn't have the problems he is having with this one. He keeps trying to say that why should he get a new one that runs XP when it isn't going to work for him. Totally missing the fact that if other people can get it to work on their PC running Home, that if he gets a new one it should run on that one as it isn't the same computer as the one already sitting in front of him that doesn't want to run it. He also says that he doesn't have the money for a new one. He does seem to have money to get new radios though. I just wonder why he doesn't see the PC as part of the radio system as that is one of the more important uses of it for him. I have even caught him talking to friends about how at ham radio shows there are tables and tables of old used laptops for sale and that he ought to get one. He just doesn't want to get one older than the one he has. One of these days hw will come home with a laptop that is about a P-II300 and will think it is great and he'll want me to get it working for him. The man just doesn't have a clue and drives me nuts asking me for help. I swear, if he asks for help trying to get that beat up old junk laptop running one more time, I'm just going to throw it out in the pool, hopefully it will freeze solid, and force him to get a new one that isn't JUNK!!
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