Working with utterly untechy people

[Mich the Tester]

Someone I know just can't grasp the distinction between an install program, the one you download, and the installed program.

I've tried a chicken and egg analogy (The install program is the egg, which "hatches" into the actual program that runs after you install it on the C drive). But the other day I was berated for having advised him to save his install programs in separate directories on an external drive, along with licence keys where applicable. He did that, but then went and installed them on the same drive instead of the C drive and now of course complains that nothing runs without the external drive being plugged in with the same letter!

What do you _do_ with people like that?!

Start by asking him if he's kept the box and receipt for his computer.

[OwlHoot]

Start by asking him if he's kept the box and receipt for his computer.

On the grounds that he should pack it up and return it, as he's too stupid to use it.

I'm tempted, Mich, very tempted.

(He's another one of these compulsive freebie downloaders, although having been bitten so many times by viruses and resource hoggers, he's a bit more discriminating these days.)