by Shane Grantham | Jul 4, 2019
One of my computer repair clients is a surveying company who surveys properties all over our area. Before they go out into the field, they do research on the property so there are fewer surprises when they arrive. One of the things they do is print plots of the...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 2, 2019
I was talking to a Fort Wayne computer repair client of mine last week about their Windows 7 laptop which was about eight years old. A few months previous I worked on it to make it faster. Typical software and operating system tasks were done and my client said it was...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 12, 2019
I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad that is one of my main laptops. It came with only 2 GBs of RAM and last night I increased that to 6GB. I set this laptop to dual boot to either Microsoft Windows 10 or Linux Mint 18.x. I opened Window 10 and only 3GB of the 6.0 is used...
by Shane Grantham | May 31, 2019
We all get spam email and it wastes a lot of time for me and probably you as well. One rule I have for myself is not to open the messages on my smartphone. I use a Linux computer so it doesn’t mess up my main communication tool if the message has a payload or...
by Shane Grantham | May 26, 2019
Last last year, a client called and said Microsoft Outlook Express was prompting for their user name and password. Normally, it automatically starts and no credentials are entered. They use this program for their business email. Everything they do is tied to their...
