Helping people

Two days back, got a SMS from a friend I met in Internet, asking me to help her cousin with her PC problem. Apparently, there were two PCs' problems; first one, its Google's Chrome browser was displaying funny characters (not English, not Chinese); second one, Windows Vista can't boot up.

It took me till this afternoon to resolve the first PC's problem, somehow the language setting for the browsers were set to something else, and the 'East Asian Languages' check box was not checked in the 'Regional Settings and Languages'; do both, restart, it works! Actually, there was another issue, the sound from the PC sounded 'quacky', pretty funny when Taylor Swift's song, Tear drops on my guitar was played. What I did? Re-install the RealTek HD audio driver.

As for the second PC's problem, tried every ways, still can't solve, I advised them to get the OS installation CD that should have came with the PC and re-install the OS.

Today, my other friend's company was having a family day at USS, I didn't go. I didn't get paid for the helping to fix the PC problem, so this is what I did today...