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I've used Massgrave, but that and the other things you mentioned are not options in this case.
A few years ago I helped a different friend when her printer quit working on Windows 10. What started as occasional help turned into near daily phone calls and demands for tech support to get the printer working again. Turned out her boyfriend was getting pissed off when he was playing a game and killing Windows with the power button on the PC.
Lesson learned.
I'm not willing to become anyone's tech support rep. I'll help this friend occasionally but won't go further than that.
ok, but won't they also demand tech support for the mac? and if others can't give them help for windows, and you won't either, who will for the mac?
Gotta laugh at the downvotes. Maybe you’d like to be her tech support?
I did not downvote you
Sorry I wasn't clear - I should have worded it differently. I meant to infer that I was referring to whomever did.
Apple.