Does this scenario sound familiar? You buy a new computer, take it home, set it up and begin using it.
Everything works just fine for several months, but then one morning it just refuses to boot into Windows. Try as you might, you can’t get the system to come up. Oh well, time to send it on for repair, right?
But then a question pops into your mind: Is the computer still under warranty? You know you’ve had it close to a year, but is the warranty still in effect? Did you spring for the extended warranty when you bought it? No problem, you’ll just get that information right off of the receipt.
Uh-oh, you can’t find the receipt! What to do now? [Read more…]