It is a running joke between me and my friends that my laptop is still alive...just. For the last 3 years it has been hanging on by the skin of its teeth. We all have little tricks to sort out quirks, but this got to the stage that I would have to rub it here, poke it there, blow it somewhere else (don't start making up your own jokes) and take out the battery to make it work. When it took about 1hour and 45 minutes to start up, it became a bit ridiculous so instead of letting him go to laptop heaven I called the PC Doctor.
Mainly because I was amused by the name, but it seemed appropriate in my case. So in I went and my little laptop was rushed straight to computer ER, with me watching nervously on, like a father worrying for his child. Soon the diagnosis came back, and it was bad. I slowly sat down in shock, not believing the words I was hearing. 'I'm sorry sir, he seems too far gone'. WHY GOD WHYYY??? 'But...' and there it was, my lifeline - the word every man hopes for when his loved one is slipping away from him 'But there is a radical new treatment we could try. DO IT MAN, DO IT!, WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS!!!
And so it was done, and a few weeks later I turned up with a bouquet of flowers and some grapes to see my bruised and battered little laptop being rolled out on a wheelchair, soon to be in my arms again. And he was fixed. Yaayyy!!
Back to reality though, and the PC Doctor, despite his frankly ridiculous name, is really good. He sorted out all the viruses and malware and got it back pretty much as good as new. It is not as good as I first got it and is deteriorating slightly, but to be honest I think that is more down to the fact I download an ungodly amount of music (and that's not an innuendo for porn) than anything else. As with all these companies, the PC Doctor is not too cheap but he will fix pretty much all problems, which is all you can ask for really. read more