Way back in Jr High I was helping a friend "speed" up his families new computer. The idea was that the less crap in the main directory "C:\", the faster it would go (and the more room for important things like games.
So we deleted boot.sys and a few other key system files. Everything was fine until later that night when I got a threatening phone call from his Dad telling me that I had to pay for the phone call to Compaq to get his computer booting again.
Thankfully it was the last week of Grade 9 and his family moved back East for highschool. Cuz his dad was in the Military, owned a crap ton of guns and had a short fuse. The kid was also kinda nuts too.
Pretty much convinced me that I never, ever, want to work at an IT help desk.
(for the record, do not let some moron kid touch your boot sector ever. In all sense of that phrase...)
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