Windows

Should I simply gouge my eyes out with rusty spoons now?

I have been going around and around and around with a friend's laptop (Dell Inspiron 600m) for the better part of the afternoon. I am painfully reminded that I vowed a long time ago NOT to paint myself into a corner from which I could do nothing but provide windows desktop support.

From Dell's insipid 'Support' Center attempting to provide useful tutorials and 'needed updates' to a maddeningly useless 'Security Center' provided by Comcast, by way of McAfee that can't seem to find ANY spyware or other intrusions on this particular system to the wireless network chooser continuing to randomly drop, switch, turn off, etc. I'm ready to just hand the machine back and tell him, "why don't you just buy a FREAKING MACINTOSH!?"

I have rarely had this many problems doing simple maintenance on a pc... and yes, even though "I'm not a pc guy" that doesn't necessarily mean I don't know what I'm doing. I just prefer NOT to waste all of my time struggling with my computer to get it to work, or loading it down with crap software that keeps it from catching any and all viruses/ malware/ etc. that it comes across.

If I had my choice I would certainly not choose to be the 'boy in the bubble' who can't exist in the real world. I'll take a walk outside and not worry about every little threat, or even someone sneazing across the room, thank you!