i have, and it was a family memeber fixing my comp.i was really embarrassed.

I fix my own computer so that makes life easy

Maybe a little....

I work in the repair department of Futureshop here in Canada, and as part of our policy, we do not go searching for private things on customers computers. Customers trust us with sensitive information such as emails, bank records, pay statements. Etc.. If your computer comes in for a diagnostic or to have parts replaced, there is no need to go looking for pictures,videos whatever. We sign non disclosure agreements when we get hired. If computers are replaced under warranty, we ask if they need their info backed up. If not we run sophisticated disk wiping software. The worst thing we see is if you have a " personal " photo as your wallpaper. Not much we can do about that.

i would be a bit embarrassed, but i'm sure they've seen it all

I'd be embarrassed to be unable to fix my computer myself. My private files are encrypted so anyone snooping around on my hard drive would have difficulty seeing the data.

Shit happens.

There is probably nothing I have on my computer that hasn't been seen by a computer person in the west... now here in China on the other hand... they'd make a copy of everything and post it on the net.

Fun times!

I learned to fix my own computer problems a while back, I don't let anyone near my 'babies' now.