Between my friends and family, I'm 'the computer guy'. Typically I'm the one that everyone refers to with problems with their PCs.
One of Eden's coworkers asked me to clean up her laptop because it's been slow as hell lately.
So I've been working on it off and on for the last week. First and foremost it's a laptop running Vista that by no means has any business trying to. It's a celeron with 512kb ram. I've already advised her to upgrade to XP at some point, but explaining PC stuff to her is like explaining it to a puppy.
It's been a week and I've managed to defrag it and clean out all the bloatware that came with it, along with adding Spybot and scanning for any spyware. Somehow she already managed to have CC Cleaner installed, so I've been running that to clean up the registry.
So my question comes down to this. She insists on paying me. I have no idea how much to charge someone for something like this. I was thinking $15-$20 per hour would be a standard rate if I was doing this for a business. Does that sound reasonable? If so, I'll probably charge her a bit less than the going rate as a 'friend of family' type of thing.
One of Eden's coworkers asked me to clean up her laptop because it's been slow as hell lately.
So I've been working on it off and on for the last week. First and foremost it's a laptop running Vista that by no means has any business trying to. It's a celeron with 512kb ram. I've already advised her to upgrade to XP at some point, but explaining PC stuff to her is like explaining it to a puppy.
It's been a week and I've managed to defrag it and clean out all the bloatware that came with it, along with adding Spybot and scanning for any spyware. Somehow she already managed to have CC Cleaner installed, so I've been running that to clean up the registry.
So my question comes down to this. She insists on paying me. I have no idea how much to charge someone for something like this. I was thinking $15-$20 per hour would be a standard rate if I was doing this for a business. Does that sound reasonable? If so, I'll probably charge her a bit less than the going rate as a 'friend of family' type of thing.