Geek Squad MRI
All of the software that comes with the GeekSquad MRI disc can be found online for free. It comes with a feature packed file manager, A temp file remover, Kaspersky Boot Disc, Malwarebytes scanner, and Webroot scanner. So here are the links to all of this software for free. Offered by the manufacturers of the software! - fancy file manager - Temp file cleaner - Kaspersky boot disc - malwarebytes - webroot! - Please watch: 'Testing A Seagate HDD To Use For Long Term Storage' -.
I've done a little bit of research on the Geek Squad's toolset, and have listed all the information I can find on my site here.
Ok, so my friend accidentally broke his girlfriends screen on her laptop and took it to best buy right away. They told him right away, $500 to replace the screen and they are not sure if anything else is wrong with it. So my friend gets his laptop back and lo and behold, the stupid idiots left their ultimate boot disk in there. As everyone knows geek squad costs an arm and a leg to get to fix a computer, and all they use is this one CD. So I did a little bit more research, looked through the program, and at the top it had a url for the site.
I thought, 'Hey, maybe it will have something of a manual for me to use.' I went to and guess what, the software is completely FREE!!!! The geek squad are just a bunch of guys with FREE software charging an enormus amount of money!!
I figured, if this is free software, many people are being ripped off and I want it to STOP! I wouldn't call GEEK SQUAD frauds, but I would call them immoral and money hungry. No way should they be getting away with this. Please post what you think or if I am repeating what someone else has said or if I am over reacting. Ive often wondered why Geek Squad charges as high a price as they do for their services and if they used special software to help solve the problems they fix. It looks like they probably use all the proggies I do to run diagnostics, trojan/virus/spyware sweeps, and simple day to day maintenance.
Glad to know I have as many credentials to fix a PC as they do. This thread confirms my suspicions. Not that I would ever use a 2nd party service to fix a problem on any of my PCs.
Places like Geek Squad will always be in existence for the simple fact that most PC owners are afraid to try to fix their own computers much less open them up to save themselves some bucks. Makes me think I might be in the wrong business.:wink. I work for BB.and yeah the geek squad doesn't know a lot about computers. In fact i would dare to say i know more then they do, and i work in HT. What you forget is that Jiffy Lube people dont know everything about cars, I could do it cheaper but i am too lazy. I could make a list a mile long of rediculous rip-offs.Which the GeekSquad wouldn't make my list.they tell you upfront a cost and stick to it. Roofing your own house is HELLA easy and you can do it yourself for about 1/3rd the cost of a professional instal.
Is that a ripoff too? Mexican food costs about 38cents to make and they charge $15bucks for a dinner.is that a ripoff? If you dont like the prices DONT USE THEIR SERVICES!!! I dont think certain Movies are worth $15, so guess what.I DONT BUY THEM!
YOu say its all free software and its just spysweepers and stuff.but guess what. I would be willing to bet 90% of most home users have NO protection at all. (and btw the free ones are the best IMHO). YOu say its all free software and its just spysweepers and stuff.but guess what. I would be willing to bet 90% of most home users have NO protection at all. (and btw the free ones are the best IMHO) I know this for a fact.
Every time someone at work wants me to work on their computer, I ask them what kind of Anitspyware, antivirus, trojan protection, firewall they have and they say 'What?' I chuckle to myself and think 'Easy money.' I dont rape them like Geek Squad does though. I keep all these nifty little programs on a jumpdrive just for this purpose and, man, do they come in handy. Geek Squad is over priced. I think people need to be educated about other places to go for service.
Has anyone seen the geeksquad usb cables? They are like 33 dollars for a six foot.
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Walmart = 10 bux. And don't give me that gold plated cables are better conductors crap. By the time a nongold is ruined, usb cables will be obsolete. As far as their service, if your at a college, then more than likely you have a free or almost free place to get your computer fixed, and if you are not do other research. Wherever there is a best buy there is definately somthing cheaper.
Ok, perspective time. Banfield (an overpriced vetrinary clinic associated with Petsmart) uses cheap low end equipment that you can probably get for a third the price of their service plan. Would I know what to do with it? If I did some research online I could figure it out I'm sure, but it would take a long time, and I wouldn't have the experience they do.
Yes there are cheaper clinics out there, and a lot of them are less careful about keeping things clean and sanitary. FUD results in spending far more than is needed. This is pretty much identical to using Geeksquad. You are seriously getting bent out of shape over nothing. This isn't some great new injustice.
This isn't extortion. This is a service offering a convenience with a large brand backing it. Your average A+ technician probably knows more than them, but your average end user thinks they are wizards.
Sorry to steal your thunder so to speak but there are far greater injustices in the world. You are accusing me of being a corporate shill? Thats kind of funny. Anyone on this website is not likely to go to a third party repair place anyway, much less one strapped onto a Best Buy. I'd imagine 4/5ths or more of the posters here are overqualified for that job as it is.
Most repair shops I am aware of make several of the same mistakes every time, like leaving the CD drives in PIO mode for instance, or leaving the floppy cable on backwards, etc. These are newbie mistakes and they all charge through the nose. Thing is, most people don't know or don't care to know any better and so they shell out the big bucks for shoddy work. Creating an alarming post on THG forumz of all places is not going to 'wake up' anyone.
If someone who posted here considered using such a service, I'd wonder what they were doing here in the first place. Now you tell me where I can go to get my car worked on for cheap competent service, I'll be all over that.
I was having (and still am) some issues with my computer. Couldn't get hold of the tech person I normally use who will come to my home (I'm disabled). A friend told me that someone she knew had used geeksquad and they thought they did a good job. So I went to their website. Their charges are, IMHO, outrageous. They charge $129 to install a ram stick!
That doesn't include actually bringing the right stick, you buy that. Even I can can do that! Of course, there's alot I can't do, don't know how, don't understand alot of things. I do keep my a/v, firewall, spyware protection on, updated and run regularly. For GS to do basically what anyone should be doing costs over $200. I understand any company has to make a profit, pay their employees, etc. But there's competitive pricing and then there's price gouging.
Ok I'm gonna be a bit harsh on you here so if you don't want to hear it, then back away now: Ok you've been warned. Ok what are you about 16, 17 or 18 years old?
Still living with mommy and daddy and holding down a 15 hour a week job to buy your p0t and kewl gamin' gear? Well - if you aren't I'd be surprised if you are far from that. First off, if you think you can do better than geek squads prices, then I suggest you venture into a small business loan and sink the money into starting your own company.
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There are a MILLION people, just like you, that believe that computer companies charge too much for what they do, and they start their own kewl d00dz computer store, only to watch it fail within a year (while sucking their familes of money). Let's also take a look at your local plumber, who learned his trade half baked, on the job, right out of high school (if that). They charge, in my area, $75 just to fart inside your door.without doing a darn thing. Then, the usually fubar something nicely, and by the time they walk out, you are holding your a$$ wondering why you are now $150 short in the wallet to fix a leak. To install a sink, garbage disposal, and faucet, they usually charge $300. That said, do you think this guy has spent COUNTLESS hours reading and tinkering on his dime, relearning his job every year like the computer industry? Ok now lets look at an electrician.
A bit more skilled actually. Sometimes, highly skilled. The 'basic idiot' local yocal electrician charges about $90 bucks to run one wire. He will charge you for any boxes that he has to put in, such as a.60 cent box from home depot, he will mark that up usually aout 600%.' For his trouble'. If you want something moved, or forbid, a new line run in your house.you can be looking at anywhere between $150 - $500, sometimes MUCH higher depending on the issues involved. Not to mention, he DOESN'T REPAIR the work need to get the wire to the point you wanted it, such as demoing a wall.
YOU have to pay someone to come in and do that. OH BUT, he has a card of a 'buddy' of his that he knows that will do it.' Ok I know this because, I have the unfortunate responsibility of hiring these kinda guys when I am in a pinch for laborers that my company may have normally, but either they are over booked or sick, or on one of their 20 vacations they take each year. OK now don't get me wrong, these guys aren't rich. Most that I know, blow their money in wild and stupid ways. But, they, after taxes and paying their own insurance - gross about $50-$80k / year if they are good and work fast (usually sloppy too).
Now, you are bashing the geek squad. LIke I said, go do it yourself. There are a TON of kiddies out there that put a video card in once and now think they are computer experts. Induldge your senses and enter the marketplace for real for real. Then, let's see what you say in 10 years. I beg you to save this thread, and reread it after 10 years.
I think you will slap yourself for being such an idiot. BTW- the ultimate boot cd, is probably a techy, that is making garbage money, using his 'time tested tools' to work on systems faster, better, and quicker. Each tech is different. Trust me, I highly doubt Geek Squad sanctions this. Each store, each tech and each area is all going to be different.you are slandering a name: geek squad. And assuming that EVERY tech and EVERY store is a robotic machine that works exactly the same. Before you open your mouth again, please shut it and think.noob.
I just checked the Geek Squad prices, for onsite services OUCH!!!! However they have to pay for the VW Bugs they drive, the gas, the insurance, plates, and city stickers, not to mention maintence this added to paying the employee. If you take that all into consideration unfortunately its not that outrageous. On that 129 mem install they are making around $50 - $70. I used to do onsite service for a company and these costs add up, we didn't charge 129 for onsite mem install though. I also checked there instore prices, those are very reasonable.
They have been the same since before geek squad. Mem install is $29, If I didn't know how to do it, I would pay it. I am a computer tech and has been for years. When you walk in to a store to have a computer fixed, you are buying their knowledge and experience. Most good techs have spent more time in their field then what it takes to get a degree from college.
They know where to get the tools they need to fix your comptuer, and they know how to use them. I my self use mostly free tools to clean up spyware, diagnose problems, and where free tools dont cut it, spend the money on software and tools that cost $500 or more. However, going back to my original statement, 'you are buying their knowledge and experience'.
Techs at Best Buy and the like are mostly kids that just got their A+ and just started working on computers. They have a higher mistake rate, and a longer repair time because of the extra learning and research time.
You are not getting a good deal when you buy knowledge from Best Buy's Geek Squad. Beter to spend your money on a smaller shop with people who look like they know what they are doing. And dont have 20 tatoos saying Devil in 20 different languages.
Tools dont make the tech. Companies are all rip-offs when i bought my 6600GT from bestbuy they asked me if i would want them to install the card for 40 bucks i was like ok lets do that.not. 40$ TO INSTALL A GFX CARD INTO A SLOT 8O?
A friggin monkey can do that if given a bananna! BTW all the people who work for Geeksquad are monkeys:wink: Just so you know. Low wage cost and plus they can do anything like use anti-virus software.
In all every body rips off everybody else bestbuy rips me off i rip them off:twisted: it how the world stays in balance. Well now, for dead hard drives. $150 is very reasonable for Data Recovery. No, you don't use it to get your years of MP3s/hackNcracks/pirated softwarez/pr0n/saved games or whatever. If that was all it was for then yes, $150 is outrageous. Data Recovery is for people who have things that they really need and cannot under any circumstances (because they didn't back it up) get it from somewhere else.
If that was my 20gb hard drive, and it was full of years of family trip pictures, birthdays, honeymoon photos, and so on, I would gladly pay $150 to get it all back, if not only to punish myself for not backing it up in the first place. Another group of people who use it is companies who have vital company/customer records stored on them. Unlike pulling out the old vid card and slapping in the new one, data recovery takes a lot more and delicate labor.
It has to be done in a 100% dust sealed, EMI proof, air tight environment. It takes time and know-how to do this. Only a well trained, well fed, and genetically altered monkey could do it. I edited the '$120s' out and replaced them with the rightful '$150s' Still reasonable to pay for data that you're connected to.
LOL; Geek Squad charges you $250 to do a Windows install, along with updating everything. Installing Windows is so easy; all you do is click next a bunch of times. Not to sound like an apologist for the Geek Squad, I think one of the major problems with tech support in gneral is that it is time consuming. It takes several hours just to install Windows, drivers, and all the updates and if you're out in the field, i.e., at the customer's house, there isn't really much you can do while you're waiting for installs. Same with cleaning out viruses, spyware, etc. As far as on-line support, walking someone through diagnostics can take a long time, e.g., just getting someone into Device Manager. In order to keep cost down companies pay lower wages and so end up with a lot of people that don't know what they're doing.
I think another problem is the fear of technology a lot of people have, you have to keep reassuring them regarding what you're asking them to do, which takes time and patience. Ummm about 80% of the market would take their PC's to a PC shop. Like it or not, Geeks who techout on this stuff are a minority of the 300,000,000 people in the united states alone.
Most people get the pc's to do their email and not be hasseled with learning how things work. (Wonder how many of you can pull your television apart and repair them? Or your Refigerator.or your car) People for the most part don't buy. to tear it apart and figure out what makes it go.they just want it to do what they bought it for. You know untill a few years ago I built all my own PC's but these days my time is more valuable to me than tinkering with the innards. So I have learned to advance myself and let people like Alienware, Falcon Northwest and Voodoo do the grunt work freeing me to do what I feel like doing. Ummm about 80% of the market would take their PC's to a PC shop.
Like it or not, Geeks who techout on this stuff are a minority of the 300,000,000 people in the united states alone. Most people get the pc's to do their email and not be hasseled with learning how things work.
(Wonder how many of you can pull your television apart and repair them? Or your Refigerator.or your car) People for the most part don't buy. to tear it apart and figure out what makes it go.they just want it to do what they bought it for.
You know untill a few years ago I built all my own PC's but these days my time is more valuable to me than tinkering with the innards. So I have learned to advance myself and let people like Alienware, Falcon Northwest and Voodoo do the grunt work freeing me to do what I feel like doing. While I agree most people could care less about learning to fix and/or avoid common problems, this in and of itself is a problem. I'm old enough to rememver when your TV quit working you pulled the tubes and went to a local store to test them and if one was bad, replace it. Same with being able to tinker with cars to keep them running. Both TVs and cars are sufficiently advanced to be very reliable and pretty much fool proof.
By comparison computers are technologicallly primative and someone in the home should know the basics to avoid things like losing data (multiple drives and backing up), clean trash files, defragging, etc as well as basic security. The latter is especially important because it affects all of us when hachers hijack vunerable computes. This stuff is brain suregery. Computer mfg could save themselves a lot of time and pi$$ing off customers with crappy tech support by partitioning the hard drive and providing simple instructions. Thanks G-Paw, now I don't feel like the only geezer out here Ohhh for the days of tubes.(you don't want to know how many hours I would have to spend feeling for cold tubes in thousands of amplifiers and or multicouplers in my day) You would think that people would want to know this stuff but in thinking that you overestimate the average idiot.(they are called that for a reason) As for PC's costing a bit more than a Coffee maker.look again MY other half spent as much or more on her (I gotta have my perfect coffee) coffee maker than I did on the PC I built for my son. Thanks G-Paw, now I don't feel like the only geezer out here Ohhh for the days of tubes.(you don't want to know how many hours I would have to spend feeling for cold tubes in thousands of amplifiers and or multicouplers in my day) You would think that people would want to know this stuff but in thinking that you overestimate the average idiot.(they are called that for a reason) As for PC's costing a bit more than a Coffee maker.look again MY other half spent as much or more on her (I gotta have my perfect coffee) coffee maker than I did on the PC I built for my son. Many we outht to start a group of geezer geeks to deal with some of these young whipper snappers.
If my wife spent more on a coffe maker than I do on computers, it better do somethings for her better than I can, although being replaced by a coffee maker would be kind of embarring.:P. They do partition the hard drive (namely Sony), and its annoying. To the average Email user, the computer is nothing more then a coffee pot, or a toster. The fact it costs just a bit more then those means customers will at most bother to take it to be fixed and not much more.
What computers need to come equiped with is a training video for basic topics instead of that stupid flash welcome screan. When you buy a car, you get a manual / training DVD.
You should when you get a computer too. You should learn that and more. A computer isn't close to a toaster, but some people, like my dad, seem to think it's just going to work when they. Want to check their email I can honestly say it takes years of hands on work to efficiently use a computer, even if it's just to check your email.