by Shane Grantham | Jun 17, 2025
Email used to be useful. Now it’s annoying. It was used for checking on clients and communicating with them. Now more spam hits my many email boxes than ever before. Most are about getting business loans and improving my web sites. The rest are various other...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 15, 2025
For the past five years my company, Shane Grantham comsulting, has been nominated for a Fort Wayne Readers Choice award. The category is Computer Repair Store. I’m not a store but I do computer repair. It’s under the Shopping category. They should have...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 8, 2025
I take it for granted that Linux computers can read Microsoft Windows file systems on hard drives. It doesn’t work the other way in most cases. Using Linux to read the NTFS file system saved a client’s data last month when their Windows laptop had a...
by Shane Grantham | May 20, 2025
My Lenovo laptop has been with me maybe two years. It came with Windows 11 and that’s why I bought it. I use it to learn Windows 11. Additionally, my previous Windows business laptop was very old and slow. I still have it for Quickbooks and it gets used just...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 7, 2025
Last month a new business called me reporting their email account couldn’t send messages for the last two weeks. They can receive messages during this entire time. I arrived on-site and began looking through the email account settings and really couldn’t...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2025
Today I delivered a Dell Windows 11 laptop to a customer at their location. They were using it for a financial analysis audit. The laptop lid was closed when they went to lunch and when they came back the problem started. It said Windows was low on the battery and...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 7, 2025
Not long ago I was using one of my Linux computers and noticed the video player was frozen or locked up. Instead of closing the video player from it’s interface, I used a different approach. The System Monitor program was opened so I could see the running...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 5, 2025
Recently, my main Linux computer was getting slow and I couldn’t figure out why. The startup processes were examined and nothing out of the ordinary was discovered. Next the disk space was viewed and the hard drive was almost full! Nothing came to mind that...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 4, 2025
I read computer books to stay current with my fast-paced industry. Windows 11 is the latest OS available to the world and I’m using it on one of my business computers. this book was a general information book about features and I learned some interested...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 15, 2025
Last November I stumbled across an internet site which holds all kinds of audio and video clips from TV, Movies and other places. It’s called the Internet Archive and is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 4, 2025
A computer client emailed me this week about buying a new computer for the business. They were looking for advise and I mentioned new Windows computers would have 11 on them. My first suggestion was to get as much RAM (Random Access Memory) as you can. My Windows 11...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 29, 2025
I had an interesting case last week. A new client contacted me about their MSI gaming laptop which wasa having problems charging the battery. Before we got together, they took the cover off the laptop and looked around inside and put it back together. The power...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 28, 2025
Around 2016 I put a Linux Server into service for holding my business and personal files. It was left on continuously so it could always be there if I needed a file. Another reason was to keep it in a stable thermal state at the same temperature, If it was shut down...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 11, 2025
For the past month I’ve been trying to get my Lenovo laptop to connect to my Linux file server computer. My windows 10 and my Apple and Linux workstation can. The laptop can ping the server and see it. Research I did on the internet points to a possible Samba...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 27, 2024
I have two Raspberry Pi computers which I put together maybe two years ago. These are small form-factor units a little bigger than a deck of cards. One is for mainly printing. The other is for file processing and playing videos. The program for videos used to work...
