Posted on 09/26/2020 7:53:05 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Documented conversations between Tech Support staff and (technologically impaired) seniors....
Tech support: What kind of computer do you have? Customer: A white one... Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen. Customer: Your left or my left? ************************
Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time I try, it says 'cant find printer. I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't find it..
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Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore. Tech support: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer? Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer. Tech support: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back. Customer: OK Tech support: Did the keyboard come with you? Customer: Yes Tech support: That means the keyboard is not plugged in.
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Customer: I can't get on the Internet. Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password? Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it. Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was? Customer: Five dots.
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Tech support: What anti-virus program do you use? Customer: Netscape. Tech support: That's not an anti-virus program. Customer: Oh, sorry... Internet Explorer..
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Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears. *************************
Tech support: How may I help you? Customer: I'm writing my first email. Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem? Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I get the little circle around it? *************************
A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. Tech support: Are you running it under windows? Customer: 'No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his printer is working fine.'
My favorite response to
my kids if I don’t understand something quickly.
“Hey, I had to teach you how to use a spoon.”
LOL!
Thanks for the lowdown. I think I can try it out first on my large monitor Windows computer. You only need to download an app for that. Rather than plunk down $150 first. I need to see what the channel selection is. If CNBC is free then I am interested.....But it does not look like it is.
You’re correct. I was confusing my pc experience with my timesharing experience with a GE 400 mainframe which had a RAM core measured in kilobytes instead of megabytes.
No. It integrates subscriptions that you already have and offers free movie channels.
We are watching a high def walkthrough in Sorento, Italy on YouTube right now. YouTube is free with occasional pop up ads.
Bud I need moi comptutor as I get hear ta zis plase to speek to youse FRS! Yeah fer tipewrightors!
We are listening to our music server via the VLC media player app.
I created a music broadcast server using a old PC, ubuntu, mixxx, and shoutcast.
And I can view our webcams via the ipcamera app.
All on Apple TV.
I am that stupid when it comes to Phones and Apps
Computers, I have no Problems ... a 6 year old found and started playing all kinda Games on my Phone ... I had no clue
For weeks I was just trying to undo everything she accomplished and to get my phone back to normal ... lucky me there is an 8 year old across the street and 30 seconds later I’m good.
Why don’t I understand Phones? It should be easy, small children know it, why can’t I?
I loved this thread tonight...
After all of the political tension and being close to a nervous breakdown over the riots, etc, this was just plain
FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Polly... who is a 79 year old senior and fairly computer literate!!
From Ronald Reagan 1999 biographyThen Reagan turned to the activists. Initially he tried to engage them in dialogue, but he soon found that they only wanted to trade barbs and insults. Reagans quick-wittedness is apparent from records of some of those exchanges. At one campus meeting, a student told Reagan that it was impossible for people of Reagans generation to understand young people. You grew up in a different world, he said. Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers. Without missing a beat, Reagan replied, Youre right. Its true that we didnt have those things when we were young. We invented them.
Ah, the good old days when you could put things in quotes, add + or - at the start of a string to really filter down to what you want. As you said, those days are long gone.
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