Word: compusa
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Instead, I should have called CompUSA, which supports virtually all computers and software. At 1-900-CALL-COMP, you get $2.49-a-minute help (first minute free) from real pros. I immediately reached someone there who quickly diagnosed my problem as a corrupted registry and told me how to fix it. Kip Crosby, co-author of the indispensable Windows 98 Bible, later said the registry, a humongous file that helps initialize programs, is often where problems arise. "When it's corrupt, it's almost impossible to repair," he said, noting that hardly anyone in the support world will muck around...
...easy labor. It took time and money, not to mention multiple trips to Best Buy, Home Depot and CompUSA, to get the job done. The couple spent hours drilling holes through nearly every wall of the house so they could string Ethernet cable from PC to PC and create wall outlets for those cables to plug into. Thibodeaux also had to figure out how to configure three Macs, three Windows PCs and two laptops so the computers would not just talk to one another but speak the same language. The couple managed to clear all these hurdles and are happy...
Erik Gustafson, manager of the Steinroe Young Investor Fund, says the toy retailer and other category killers such as Circuit City and CompUSA have become victims of their own success, encouraging shoppers to expect everything to be on sale all the time. "The category killers are going to have to live with lower profit margins going forward," says Gustafson. That is good news for the consumer, but not for shareholders who have watched Toys "R" Us' stock price get cut in half over the past 12 months, to a little more than $16 a share...
...news is for stores such as CompUSA, which are hoping to make a buck from the upgrade market. Dataquest estimates that Microsoft will move a modest 5.5 million of the upgrade packages; most people who have Windows 95 plan to stick with it for now. As usual with a a major Microsoft release, computer stores are hoping for a ripple effect, where customers buying Win98 will throw in extra bits of hardware or software that's billed as working especially well with Windows 98. CompUSA even had mimes at its Manhattan store at midnight attempting to entice cultured shoppers. Maybe...
After painful and expensive visits to CompUSA in Brighton, I decided to invest in an Iomega zip drive. Never again would I fall victim to hard drive failure...