Uncle Ben famously told Peter Parker that "with great power comes great responsibility," but even Spider-Man never had to deal with  constant phone calls, text messages, emails, and instant messages asking for a "quick second" of his time to solve a PC related issue. As  power users, our family and friends tend to view us as their own  personal 24/7 tech support super heroes, minus the obligatory tights.

Don't get us wrong, we're more than willing to lend a helping hand, it's the handful of acquaintances who expect us to drop everything and devote  hours of our time fixing a problem that could have been avoided with a little common sense that gets our goat. You know the type -- "Hey broseph, I clicked on this link and now my computer is flipping out  again. Can you come over for a second and fix it? Thanks bud, I'll owe you a beer!"

A $1.50 bottle of suds doesn't cut it, and besides, we'd forget what it's like to be sober if we accepted brew as currency  every time someone we knew needed our PC expertise. So how do we  handle these situations? It's a delicate balancing act maintaining our sanity and personal relationships, but we're here to tell you it can be done.

Hit the jump to find out how you too can avoid   devoting your all your free time to pro bono tech support.

Even if you hold your laptop up to your face like a flip phone, talking into your computer is lame. You want to use Google Voice like a real phone—with buttons and stuff. We'll tell you how.

We expend bunches of keystrokes detailing how to recover from disaster, everything from sweeping spyware from your system to how to get your data back from the digital graveyard, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios in the first place. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or in in the world of PCs, hours of frustration.

On the flip side, maybe you have a masochistic desire to destroy your system. What better way to force your hand at upgrading then to render your current rig all but unusable? We don't condone killing hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of hardware, but hey, it's your stuff at stake, and how you choose to use (or abuse) it is up to you.

Either way, follow along as we show you the 10 worst things you can do to your PC and how to avoid them.