...NT1110 Unit 10 Analysis – Repair Shop A computer repair shop chooses to back up the user’s data if there is an issue with the owner’s computer software. Then they just reinstall the operating system. What the computer repair shop does not do is reinstall the user’s applications. There are good and bad things about doing business this way. Some of the pros are it is less time consuming, all of the users pictures, music, videos, and documents will be backed up, and the computer will end up getting fixed. Doing it this way is less time consuming and that is both good for the computer repair shop and for the customer. Having everything backed up and the computer getting fixed are probably the two most important things to the owner of the computer. Despite all of the good things of fixing the computer of software problems by backing up the computer and reinstalling the operating system there still are some cons. There are not really any cons for the computer repair shop. However, for the user they might not like the fact that the person repairing the computer will not reinstall the user’s applications and programs. A user who just uses their pc for browsing the internet and checking emails will not need a backup or any applications reinstalled. Someone who needs their documents for work will need all of them backed up but will probably not need their applications installed for them because they can just do it themselves. I am sure the repair shop can install the users programs...
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...Unit 10 Analysis 1: Repair Shop NT1110-T Repair Shop Since a computer repair shop will pretty much automatically due two things before working on your computer, which is back up any pictures, videos and documents to a DVD and format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system, it sounds like a good thing to do. However, there can be some pros and some cons to this. The pros would be that everything is backed up and saved on a DVD, therefore none of the customers information is lost on the computer; this would be less time consuming for the customer. The customer would also benefit from a formatted hard drive and the reinstallation of the operating system. Once done, the customer has a repaired computer. The cons to this, is that the customer could be out of a considerable amount of money. Most repair shops will charge for the backup of all files. So it would be best to this on your own before taking it in. Also, the repair shop will not install all the applications that you were using on your computer. Again, you would have to take the time to do this yourself after all repairs are done. Different users can be affected much differently by the policies of this repair shop. Someone with a brand new computer would not have anything to back up versus someone that has had their computer for several years. A user that mostly browses the internet and does not email will not lose documents, files versus a business professional that creates these things on a daily...
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