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Does this sound familiar? Your PC malfunctions, you wait (seemingly endlessly) on the phone to get help from the manufacturer's tech-support service, only to find it can't help you fix the problem. Finally, you do what you considered doing first anyway: You call your computer-savvy child, who calmly fixes things and then shows you how to fix it should it ever happen again.
Our latest Computer Tech Support Survey, by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, found experiences like this unnervingly common. Only 55 percent of those who contacted free support had their problem solved. Roughly 15 percent of users with problems didn't even bother contacting the ...