TaraIkeda wrote:
> Ugh I am not looking forward to this, someone I know needs me to
> reinstall XP for them

a tip for the wise: tell them you charge $10 an hour to work on
friend's computer problems....and, $50 an hour if it is a Windows
problem..

tell them NO hard feelings at all if they want to find someone
else...you understand completely...

if they ask why you charge so much more for a Redmond machine tell
them that you use that system SO seldom you really have to scratch to
figure it out....AND, it is frustratingly slow, complicated and locked
down (from an administrative viewpoint)..

thankfully, my friend's Windows problems no longer suck up *my*
time...before i went to this strategy i was getting called far too
often...and, each one usually cost me _several_ hours of head scratchin'..

--
brassy