My brother ordered a new laptop before heading off to college, and rather than take it out of the box and configure it myself like I usually do (because it saves me hours of questions and lots of “Can you explain what Feature X does”), I instead deferred the task onto him, figuring a college-bound honor...

[quote user="SpectateSwamp"]Who's idea was it to lock down computers like that. Teach them to backup and reload the OS like I do. Computer resources and data should be shared. Not locked down. Swamp makes sharing data easy. [/quote] You seem to be "giving us lessons" so it's...

clevershark: It's kind of hard to believe that someone would even ask whether a system would "wake up" when its power cord is unplugged. OK everyone, it's time to play "spot the guy that's never been in a support role"! Anyone who's worked support for the unwashed masses knows that the above is not just...

clevershark: It's kind of hard to believe that someone would even ask whether a system would "wake up" when its power cord is unplugged. You NEVER know end-users. They can ask for anything bizarre.

Well, at least you now know what to do when a user is annoying. ;-)