Today I heard the words that I dread hearing, especially coming from someone with a technical back ground.
While looking to fix a problem, a problem that seemed to point to a few things as the cause, I heard `if I can’t fix it I will reinstall it`.
To me a reinstall of a computer is the last thing that should be done, and from experience it is only as a result of unexpected damage that is has to be done – like a hard drive failure that corrupts too many files, or as a result of someone getting impatient with Windows Updates and turning the machine off when it says not to! why would you do that?
So, I volunteered to take a look before the reinstall was started and had fixed the problem within a few minutes.
After I returned the computer, I sat and pondered on the thought processes involved in making the decision to reinstall……