I get more spam email than legitimate email

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...
Another Readers Choice award nomination

Another Readers Choice award nomination

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...
I can’t send email!  Fort Wayne Computer consulting

I can’t send email! Fort Wayne Computer consulting

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...
Windows 11 laptop nightmare

Windows 11 laptop nightmare

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...
A Zombie in my computer.  Fort Wayne Computer Repair

A Zombie in my computer. Fort Wayne Computer Repair

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...

Using Archive.org for downloading TV shows

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...

Don’t skimp on RAM (memory)

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...
The problem is probably the laptop’s power jack.

The problem is probably the laptop’s power jack.

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...
It lasted about eight years and now it’s retired.

It lasted about eight years and now it’s retired.

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...
My Windows 11 network problem

My Windows 11 network problem

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...
An update fixed my video player on my Raspberry Pi

An update fixed my video player on my Raspberry Pi

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...

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