We have seen an enormous amount of supposed PC Specialist companies using mobile phone telephone numbers advertising in Local directories or in local shop windows offering in you home fixes for £20 or less, they are a con. You always pay more they diagnose dozens of problems you don't have and charge inflated prices for parts that do not need replacing. They often hike fees up for installing software that is free. Normally they will perform the quickest most destructive repair usually a complete restore of your system (in the process all of your precious data may be lost forever). The computer is then left stuck back in time, none of the operating system service packs & bug fixes released since you purchased your computer, are applied. No anti-spy/virus tools are installed. The system once given back, then rapidly becomes compromised with spyware/viruses a second time, and the original PC problem simply re-occurs. Many times I have seen illegal 10/11 operating systems restored over perfectly legitimate OS installs. We have also seen computers that have had memory or video cards removed and not replaced or replaced with onboard graphics or inferior cheaper parts. Adverts in local directories contain a surprising number of legitimate looking IT companies, who are amateurs at best, and at worst fly by night cowboys. Unfortunately many of the PC charges, I have heard of from some customers I have later serviced, can only be described as criminal. Check the Computer Repairers website, if they are poor design, or worse don't even have a website then avoid them at all cost! Use the form above or
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