Customers To Receive Free PC Health Check-Up In Celebration of ‘Tech
Depot Services’ National Rollout
Office Depot® (NYSE:ODP), a leading global
provider of office products and services, today announced the nationwide
availability of Tech DepotTM Services, a PC
support and network installation service that provides customers with
in-home, in-office and retail support for their everyday technology
needs.
Tech Depot Services takes on the burden of helping to ensure that
virtually any technology product is set up and working properly. Through
Office Depot, customers can now have a one-stop shop for a wide variety
of services including PC tune-ups and repairs, wireless network
installation, new software installation, TV installation, and even
setting up a data protection and back-up plan for critical files.
All repairs and installations are completed by professional technicians,
with services being performed either in an Office Depot store, remotely
through a secure Internet connection with the customer, or on-site at a
customer’s home or office, depending on the
service.
In celebration of the national rollout, customers can bring their PC
into any Office Depot retail location from October 5 to October 25,
2008, and the Tech Depot Services team will perform a free PC Health
Check(a). If the PC Health Check determines that the PC needs a tune-up,
virus removal or diagnostic and repair, Office Depot will perform the
service for a 50 percent discount during the promotional period.
“Many small businesses simply don’t
have the resources to handle all of their IT needs in-house,”
said Randy Wick, Vice President of Merchandising for Office Depot. “Tech
Depot Services is a reliable and cost-effective solution that will
provide small businesses with the IT support that they need at a price
that they can afford.”
Tech Depot Services includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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Protection and Performance: The Protection & Performance
service installs, updates and configures McAfee Virus Scan Plus and
enhances your operating system to provide increased data security.
Additionally, unwanted programs are removed to help speed up computer
performance.
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Diagnostic and Repair: The Diagnostic and Repair service
determines what type of computer problem(s) a user is experiencing and
fixes non-hardware problems, including removal of viruses.
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Software Installation: Installation of a single title or suite
of software.
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PC Tune Up: Reviews and helps optimize over 100 settings on a
PC in an effort to improve speed and performance of the system.
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Data Protection: The Data Protection service installs software
on a computer and creates an automated backup plan for use with a
secondary drive. The plan defines the applicable data for backup as
well as schedules a convenient time to run the backup on a regular
basis.
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Network Installation: A technician will arrive at a customer's
home or office and install a wireless router, set up a secure network,
and connect two PC’s or a single PC and one
other device to communicate wirelessly.
About Office Depot
Every day, Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of
customers around the globe. For the local corner store as well as
Fortune 500 companies, Office Depot provides products and services to
its customers through 1,680 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales
force, top-rated catalogs and a $5.0 billion e-commerce operation.
Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $15.4 billion, and
employs about 49,000 associates around the world. The Company provides
more office products and services to more customers in more countries
than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or
through affiliates in 44 countries.
Office Depot’s common stock is listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ODP and is included in the S&P
500 Index. Additional press information can be found at: http://mediarelations.officedepot.com.
(a) In-Store service only. PC Check-Up must be performed first in
order to receive service. Offer not valid on new PC purchase. Service
not valid on Apple. Operating system requirements Windows XP Service
Pack 2 or later.
Office Depot, Delray Beach
Jason Shockley, 561-438-0037
Jason.Shockley@officedepot.com
or
Mindy
Kramer, 561-438-4276
Mindy.Kramer@officedepot.com
