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I'm sick to death of being ripped off rogue tradesmen. For example, I had a new kitchen fitted recently and it took them three months to finish the job. They turned up after 10am each day (if at all) and knocked off work each day before 3pm. As if this wasn't bad enough they wanted paying up front for the full amount before they even delivered the kitchen!
They also had to replace four drawers because when they put the worktop on the glue melted the plastic! Why didn't they take drawers off when they put the worktop on?
There are a lot of rogue tradesmen about...
On another occasion a tiler was working in my bathroom and decided to take a stroll around the rest of the house. As it happens my cleaning lady was in the spare room and he turned up in front of her frightening the hell out of her! When challenged as to why he was just wandering around he couldn't give me good reason.
He also let himself into my house one morning and I found him standing in my kitchen when I came downstairs. I screamed, at which point he packed up his stuff and was never seen again!
One guy wanted to charge me £1,400 to change some radiators and wanted 50% up front luckily I didn't pay him because he didn't turn up anyway. My advice to people is don't trust anyone - even if they look nice, drive nice car etc.
There are a lot of rogue tradesmen about who will take your money and either extend the job so long you chuck them out or they don't turn up at all and run off with your hard earned money.
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If you can't boot up in safe mode then you need professional help!
Does the met police trojan prevent you from booting up in safe mode?
I never said that I would have the confidence to carry out Fred E's method, but I knew what he meant because it had been explained to me.
And you did ask for an answer in layman's terms.
Saying "I don't know" was not an option as I had a very possible solution because our computer had to be cleaned out last year and our friend explained what he had done.
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I down our computers every few months and then blow a previously saved "image" back on to the hardrive, I use multiboot systems, Linux, Windows etc. so an image saves a lot of messing around.
Try it a, a Gerbil can do it, well this Gerbil can.
1/ As I said I didn't do it myself, a friend did.
2/ Computers are all different; the method for reloading the operating system (Windows) may vary.
3/ Boot up in safe mode I looked up for you. (How you expect me to remember which button I pressed when I did it once a couple of years ago I don't know.) You switch it on and immediately press F8. This brings up the "Windows advanced options menu"; a list of options on a plain black screen. You select "safe mode" which stops anything from running automatically. Did you not get a manual with your computer?
4/ The friend who sorted ours out had the disc himself so I don't know where he got it. The other stuff was from the discs that came with it; they needed to be re-installed as well.
5/ The effect of viruses varies; having never had this particular one how would I know? I'd need to see a computer with it on! If I couldn't get rid of it myself I'd be on the phone to our friend. I only offered a suggestion, Fred E's method is drastic but works. However it might not always be necessary; depends on the virus and the computer.
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