Tedium

Fixing people's computers is a pain in the ass. It's not that it's particularly hard, its that it is extremely tedious. It seems that most things I'm good at involve a lot tedium, boredom, and meticulously thinking. Be it cooking fine cuisine, So I know my fortes in life, it's just that every single one of them are a total pain in the ass.

Fixing someone's computer almost always begins with telling that person to restart their computer. Hopefully that person isn't technologically illiterate, or then I'll have to either; spend a half hour explain to Gram what a power button is, or I will just end up going to that person's computer, and fixing it in less time than the original conversation took..

If for some reason restarting the computer doesn't work, I will then go over the usual methods to alleviate the common issues most computers have. The usual method for fixing almost every common computer problem involves turning it on and off, restarting, and/or unplugging said device, then waiting. Sometimes you have to do this multiple times to get it to work, but usually that will do it. 

In the rare event that restarting your device doesn't work, the most likely thing after that is a cable is unplugged or some program/feature/setting that is super obvious  has been turned off or set incorrectly. Someone will complain that their sound isn't working, and more often than not it's because it's been set on mute, or the power is off.

The only time I generally find virii, spyware, malware and ilk of that sort is when someone is an internet explorer user. Internet Explorer, although designed as a "Web Browser", is actually a program designed solely for finding a replacement web browser.