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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Can I refer you to my age over under my avatar.I am more than capable of running my own PC and learning how to use it.I'm also capable of updating my own AV.Why not just give them the benefit of the doubt and explain a few things so they don't need you to help them all the time.The more you force them to learn the better for them and you.
In fact today I've just installed a brand new 250 GB external hard drive just by reading the installation manual.  I don't think I'm any kind of exception either as homealone is also 52 and there are many on here who are older than us.You can also send them here when they have a problem.
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No probs Incog, i have tried and tried and tried with them, as has my brother and this has been going on for some time.
They can use the PC reasonably well, but not to the level i would trust them with Admin rights, and to be honest i dont think they would trust themselves. I still get asked if doing this or that will "harm the computer" - sometimes you just cant win.
Despite them having the PC for - well - about 2 years now, i had to go round the other day and plug back in the ADSL modem for them as they didnt know how to do it and to show my dad how to get piccys off his digital camera (again).
Some older (note i said older and not old
) people have difficulty with this sort of thing and to be honest they are both some of them. It is intersting to watch them work the PC though - what comes naturally to us its seen in a different light to them, and Bill Gates should maybe sit people like my mum and dad down and learn how they use a PC and even interpret what its telling them to perhaps get a better understanding of how an interface should work.
They are getting it though - just a bit at a time.