Office Depot's "Free" PC Tune-up

[Deleted]

Thanks! Is this a limited-time offer?

I took my old PC to Best Buy and any way you sliced it, they wanted about $200 to do anything. (They had subscription services and the cost was less under the subscription services but the subscription cost $$$.)  I had $400 of Amazon gift credits from redeeming brownie points in my company's Wellness program shortly before I quit and just bought a new PC.  (The week after I left I found I no longer had access to the Wellness site, which would have meant my points would have gone away, a little fact HR hadn't volunteered.)

[andi9899]

I got a card for this when I bought something there last. I didn't realize that you could do it online. I didn't do it because I didn't want to unhook everything to go do it and then have to hook it back up again. I may just have to do this now.

[TheOtherMe]

The picture in the link is a laptop.  Wonder if they do laptops as well?

[TheOtherMe]

I don't have any computers that are not higher than XP.  My old XP desktop is not connected to the internet any longer.

[toomuchreality]

Thanks for the info and the link!

Last week (week before?) I had trouble with my wireless keyboard and mouse. I called Office Depot and asked them about it, after I bought a new one and it didn't work either and I had also tried a wired mouse that didn't work. They were very nice, gave me a suggestion, then told me to bring it in if I still had problems. Luckily my original mouse and keyboard were still working, so all I had to go in for, was to return the new set I bought. I had the receipt, so it was easy peasy! (They were nice too!)

[8 Bit WWBG]

Best Buy used to offer the "tune up" for about $20.  It was a good moneymaker, as it sounded intimidating but it was really all stuff that you could do yourself.  When you clear caches, you may be getting rid of credentials or saved sessions, so I wonder if anyone was annoyed post-tune up that they'd lost stuff.  Nevertheless, knowledge is power.

I was in line behind someone paying $80 or so to have some antispyware thing done.  Again, if you know how, it is all stuff you can do yourself.  If you know how...

[8 Bit WWBG]

Chrome in general is a resource HOG.  I am always amazed at the amount of crap it manages to save.  Clearing out the history and cache periodically will help.

I'm new to Windows 8.1 and soon to upgrade to 10, so I can't say how the presence of temp files and other stuff is affecting performance.  I'm using a device that is more about portability than power, so I kind of just expect it to be slow-ish.  If I had a beast of a desktop, the story would be different.

Routine maintenance and scans and sweeps should keep computers operating at a pretty healthy threshold.  It sounds like you know what was done and will be able to do it yourself.  Shame about the monitor.  Sometimes they go bad.

I do know someone who asked me for help because "mail no longer came up when she opened Internet Explorer".  It took some thinking to decipher that she must have cleared her credentials and had to find her password so she could log in again.