"4"^^ . "Your computer is running SLLLLLOOOOOWWWW. Lots of lag time with pages downloading, and when you compose messages and emails of any kind, it only allows you to type o n e l e t t e r a t a t i m e...Anyone who has owned a PC long enough recognizes the symptoms, and what they mean. Corruption. Infection. VIRUSES. About two weeks ago, mine started doing it, and I knew that if I didn't do something about it, I was in for some serious trouble. I have had my laptop for less than a year, although I tend to do a lot of Yelping, Facebooking, 'Tumblr'-ing, shopping, and uhm...\"shopping\" on it. (Yeah...let's call that \"shopping\"...)\n\nAnyway, my partner, Bear, had found this little shop off West Sahara called Supertech, when his Mac went out on him. The owner/head tech, Lem Aligaen, not only found there was nothing wrong, but didn't even charge him more than the basic $25 just to do an overall check. (It turned out to be a browser bug, not a hardware glitch.)\n\nBut you know me, folks...I gotta do stuff \"the HARD way\". So before I finally took my 'baby' in to see Lem at Bear's recommendation, first I tried to use one of those services that's advertised on TV all the time, for 'cleaning your PC.' I got the runaround, got to waste time talking to people whose first language was definitely NOT English, to put it delicately, and then I was subjected to PowerPoint-based \"scare tactics\",which outlined that it would cost at LEAST $399 to cleanse my hard drive of electronic diseases, PLUS I would have to send my PC to GEORGIA, on my own dime, where the repairs would take a MINIMUM of twelve days to perform. I hung up on those suckers, tout suite!\n\nAnd when Bear mentioned Lem and Supertech, I didn't have to think about it more than two seconds.\n\nIf's quite a jaunt by bus if you have no wheels, and it sits back off the road, in the middle of a bunch of other shops where you wouldn't think to find a computer repair place. But Lem was friendly and knowledgable. And FAST! When he asked me when I needed it back, I said I wouldn't mind picking it up on the following Monday or Tuesday (I dropped it off on a Wednesday), which Lem agreed was enough time.\n\nHe called me to let me know it was ready that FRIDAY. And did it cost me $399? Nope.\n\nNinety bucks. And yes, you're reading that right.\n\nSo if you have PC troubles, bypass the hassles I went through - and that includes going to see \"the 'GEEK SQUAD'\". Go see Lem first. You'll probably be able to pat yourself on the back for being that smart..."^^ . "0"^^ . "2012-12-02T00:00:00"^^ . . "2"^^ . . "4"^^ . .