How comfortable are you with fixing your computer yourself?

That is good. When you have a problem, it is nice to be able to fix it. Does save money on a service call. Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated and it contributed to the topic well. Have a nice day and thanks.

Killahjem and megamatt, you both are more techie than I am, obviously. I'm very lazy, because if a problem occurs, I go immediately to System Restore. I'm not really fixing anything, but just resetting it to when it didn't have the probem. Consequently, the problem soon returns. My other 'great resource' is to shut down and start again a little later. Then there are disk cleaning, defragging and checking the registry software. That's the sum of my 'fixing' of the computer. However, I can ring the technician and he'll give me some tips and tricks over the phone if it the problem is something major.

Sometimes it is best to do that. So you do not mess up things any worse. Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated and it contributed to the topic well. Have a nice day and thanks.

That's a good point. Hard to solve the issues without the proper tools after all. Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated and it contributed to the topic well. Have a nice day and thanks.

Indeed, minor things, common sense, sure just give me a couple of minutes to carefully do it step by step. More complex things are another matter entirely. Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated and it contributed to the topic well. Have a nice day and thanks.