How to Become a Computer Expert in 15 Minutes!

Seriously, anyone can become a computer "expert"!

It doesn't actually take much to become an "expert" at computers that can basically solve any computer or tech problem you come across. The big secret for every IT professional is not that they already know how to fix computers, but rather they are just good at Googling for the answer! In this video, we go over a few techniques on how to essentially find the solution to any problem by searching for terms that are most likely to return solutions other people have come up with about the same issue. With a bit of practice, you may never need to get tech support again!

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[sfskrypzone]

Tech support people: And there goes my job!

[ryf]

Instructions unclear: end up on a Stack overflow thread that's been dead for 7 years.

[randomuser]

*Alternate Title: How to be a googling expert in 15 Minutes!

[TheThunderTurnerTTT]

Me: studies Computer Science for 4 years.
ThioJoe: Hold my beer...

[ryan.harvill]

I've been working the service desk for nearly ten years and this is pretty much what we do. This is great advice.

[dakshfr]

AYYYY 7 invisible comments ._. this is basically reddit now

[barryschwarz]

Delighted to learn I've been a 'computer expert' since 2000, when I googled my first PC problem. Yes, getting smart at net search strings is key. Everything you described, I've done.
I'm sure I'm one of multitudes that learned this themselves, so I don't feel too special, but the validation is nice.

[lildiamond]

i swear to god that i was looking for computer science degree requirements stuff & this video poped out in the right time!
ur a legend! continue on!

[iuri]

Its amazing How he described exactly what i do when i have a software problem

[everydayjokes]

Joke of the day:
To the guy who stole my antidepressants...
*I hope you are happy.*

[togwam]

Instructions unclear: got hired by google as a janitor

[lowbridge]

Hey Joe, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find your vids so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the work and love watching.

[robertstimmel]

I've been trying to learn programming on my own. A lot of these tips also apply to learning to code. I've seen WAY more error messages lately than I would like to.

[edox]

"Hello, I.T. Have you tried turning off and on again?" [insert I.T Crowd meme here] XD

[neverevenwaso]

Bruh I've been doing this for years and could never describe how I did it I just did thanks for giving me a way to teach people how to troubleshoot

[snabbott]

This video does a really good of articulating the steps of resolving a problem. Nicely done!

[Johntomk]

Great video! I been a A+ technician for 20+ years. You hit the nail on the head on what we got taught years ago. When Windows XP was the newest OS coming out and still learning our skills on Windows 95, 98, and ME.

[psycomutt]

This is the reason my friends/family can't figure out why I fix problems in person and not over the phone.

Really helps to be looking at the problem to collect the data to Google, lol.

[benignoczartorres]

Alt. video title, "how to google search problems on your computer" :0

[michaelklaus_de]

Great content! Also important: don't worry you might break something! Just assume you won't, and if you should, it's reversible in almost any case. What also helps this mindset is renaming files/folders the recommended solution supposes you delete, and copy (backup) files you're supposed to change. You'll be a lot more confident "playing" with your computer on this level :)