WOW Is everyone else experiencing this???

River Valley Computer

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WOW - we are thinking our phones have been disabled and our doors made unopenable. We have two shops in two small towns in Arkansas and neither location has had a visitor and no phone calls. What the heck - finally a breather. All 5 of us are just relaxing and cleaning shops. Guess we have taken care of everyone. :p

Has this happened to anyone else????
 
I've been slow in the past, and it's always a worrisome time. But, I'm also slammed at this moment in time - and for the past 2 months it's been non-stop.
We have been slammed the last 6 months but it just came to a halt Monday. We had two customers come in today and bought two complete systems and one needing repairs but no-one asking about Windows 11.
 
Feast or famine happens, that's for sure. I've suddenly gone from relative famine to feast, and not due to Windows 11. There's just no predicting when these cycles will start or stop barring something like a major Windows version update. Even then, the "feast traffic" often comes in chunks with brief famines of several days between each.
 
We're still slammed. I expect to spend the rest of the year cleaning up the stragglers for upgrades & replacements. This has also caused the "regular work" that has come along to be backlogged as well. It'll be a good year if we survive it - haha.
 
HOW is that even possible at this time? I'm dying here doing all these Windows 11 upgrades. I've jacked the price up to $369 hoping more people will choose to buy a new computer from us instead but it isn't working.
Does that price include any data backup? That is a very steep price, though is you so maybe not. I have had a lot of Win11 upgrades and new systems as well.
 
Does that price include any data backup?
I won't do a windows upgrade without doing a full image first. Yeah the price is steep. That's the point. If I have to support these officially unsupported computers then they're going to pay through the nose. I might have to raise it another $100 to get more people to agree to replace their computers instead. That's really what I want, not a small army of unsupported computers running Windows 11 that I have to support. Though there is ongoing income potential from this. I put each client in for an appointment 18 months later to manually upgrade to the most recent build of Windows 11 since Microsoft does not allow automatic build updates on unsupported hardware. $90 is the price I've come up with to do a manual build upgrade every 18 months. It's cheap enough to be fair and justice barely enough for it to be worth it for me.
 
Yes I am the same, gives me peace of mind mostly.

The issue with any service that syncs local and online storage is that when things get broken, you can't predict where the "good" version of any file lives. If you just nuke the local copy and let everything resync, then you would lose anything that didn't sync up because of the problem. I still have this concern anytime I delete a corrupted Outlook profile, even though I've never run into the case where data was lost in that instance. OneDrive, though.....I think the possibility of data loss is much higher. Seen too many odd patterns of syncing on working setups, let alone when the sync gets scrambled.
 
I will not touch OneDrive without a back up to an external.
I will not touch OneDrive at all other than to change the setting to keep all files both on the computer and in the cloud, or to remove OneDrive entirely. OneDrive is the most awful cloud storage solution I've ever encountered and that's saying something because I've had the displeasure of dealing with IDrive! Still, I'd take IDrive over OneDrive any day.
 
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