Ideas for services

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Hi People
As part of a fundraising effort for care international some colleagues and I will be running a PC clinic in our offices outside of work time on one of the coming weekends. We’ve got the legal bit sorted now we need to build a list of services. Initially I’ll be nicking ideas off of things like the tech guys website. The list is comprehensive enough and I would ask that you look at it before making suggestions.
We will not be charging for this service but ask that people who use the service make a donation.
Any help appreciated in terms of suggestions

 

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Thats a great idea, I wish i'd thought of that!

Well I suppose if your going to "borrow" ideas froim the techguys, they will have a list of all the jobs you can do in a resonably short space of time to a computer.

What about offering to install openoffice, openproj and the like, that could add value to your work and maybe advertise it as a MS office compatible office suite.

apart from that I suppose the usual virus scan, spyware removal, cleaning out the startup folder and msconfig stuff.

What about getting a few cans of air duster and foam clean and offering a physical computer clean, maybe get some wd40 and silence squeeky fans (used to do that alot in the past).

Um.. i'll go and make some tea and have a think!

 

ok with nice hot cuppa firmly in hand, what about scheduling disk defrag for them and doing a chkdsk /F /X so it will check the disks for them on next reboot.

Driver/new component installs?

showing them how to lock down their "personal" folder

Of course you do realise that as soon as you lay a finger on the computers you will be expected to provide free tech support for the rest of its life dont you!

 

Hence our very cleverly worded legal disclaimer. Great suggestions so far thanks

 

You could provide some info on how to spot a fake email or check a connection uses https before entering credit card details, online safety sort of stuff that we take for granted.

 

Recommend a small portable air compressor instead. Much easier on the environment as there are no empty cans to dispose of afterward.

 

Ooh I like the security awareness idea might make up a handout to give to people