My friend is paying me to check out her computer due to me having a vaguely IT related job. No mention of what's wrong with it, when I ask her she just says tune it up, run scans, etc. What can I run in a 90 minute timeframe that can actually help?

She's been pretty vague about what she actually wants, but from what I gather it's a business computer and she wants it tuned up in a 90 minute timeframe. At work we use a proprietary repair suite that takes around eight hours to run, so that wouldn't help me here even though I have a personal copy.

I'm probably going to run HitmanPro or Malwarebytes depending on the consensus I get from this sub, disable unnecessary startup items, check the programs for Slimware type entries, make sure we're at Windows 1709, check drivers, see if she'd benefit from a better router or a solid state drive, but all that seems too basic to be a paid service.

What are some things you'd recommend I do? Everything I mentioned can be run and finished in 40 minutes with the exception of the 1709 update, which may not be a good choice for today anyway because it can take a while when you don't have a good connection and I think she has some clients coming in shortly after I leave.

Any software programs you'd recommend?

Edit: What would you recommend I charge? At work I'd charge around $200 for this kind of thing but that seems pretty excessive. I was thinking maybe $40 depending on if anything actually runs better when I'm done?

Submitted February 02, 2018 at 08:50PM by whiskeyjackfrost http://ift.tt/2GG0k1r