These Ridiculous Tech Support Questions Make IT Staff Look Like Absolute Saints...

14 March 2016, 12:47 | Updated: 25 April 2016, 15:00

Get some of the most hilarious requests from technophobes out there.

Now, we're all guilty of calling up IT as soon as anything goes wrong with our computers, but these lot take it to a whole new level.

Solarwinds.com has posted some of the worst requests and questions their IT staff have had to deal with... and some of them are just too much.

From asking if a mouse needs air holes, to not knowing the symbol for mute and sending an email to a real address, see the worst offenders below:

That old IT problem, when you try to send an email to a postal address:

Not understanding that wireless equipment needs to be powered.

Or, the common problem when you think a mouse is actually a living, breathing, animal:

Thinking disks should be continually put into a computer one after another:

And not recognising the universal symbol for mute:

Forget about turning it off and on again, some of these should probably just back away slowly!