Know when to quit and cut your losses · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave remembers helping a methodical and genuinely curious man through a failed Windows update. After nine days and an estimated hundred hours of good advice that did not solve the problem, the man finally reformatted, giving Dr. Dave a concrete example of the judgment required to stop learning from a repair and start over.
This excerpt runs from 9:03.842 to 10:13.406 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2008-09-13. The exact broadcast date may differ.
The source recording may be one part of a show. Use the full show link above to hear its available preserved recordings. Missing parts and uncertain dates are labeled on that page.