One of the guys I work with - let's call him John (after all, that is his name, so why shouldn't we use it - it's not like he's committed a crime or anything, at least to the best of my knowledge) - has posted a cute little sign in his office which should reduce his local technical support workload by 90%. It's a little clipart picture of a monkey, with the caption "Have you seen my assistant?"
As every experienced Windows user knows, 90% of all problems can be cured by rebooting the machine. That is why Windows prompts you to reboot seemingly every time you move the mouse too fast. The operating system knows that something is wrong, but not exactly what, and is clueless about how to fix the problem. So it takes the easy way out, commits cybersuicide, and counts on its karma balance being positive during its subsequent cyberreincarnation (I'm driving my spell checker nuts today) to fix the problem.
Here are the typical user complaints that a Windows system administrator will answer with "Reboot your machine:"
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