[graeme]

>As one of those computer-literate relatives / offspring, I can't help but feel like I'm contributing to the problem by helping them "fix" their windows computers. So I've stopped doing it.

This happened to me after I switched to mac. Not on purpose, I just stopped knowing how to troubleshoot.

Recently, my parents had to upgrade their old XP computer. They bought a mac. They were worried about learning Windows 8 without support.

[Widdershin]

This had been one of the nice upsides of swapping to *nix. I can now claim ignorance of Windows problems.