by Shane Grantham | Nov 6, 2020
Apple/Mac computers can get viruses just like Microsoft Windows computers, but not to the same extent. I’ve witnessed apple malware and Windows malware and Windows malware causes the most damage and support cost. Another reason is to protect files shared with...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 22, 2020
This week someone asked for assistance with their flip phone. They thought it wasn’t charging and they couldn’t call out on it. Rarely do I work with these types of phones since almost all my clients have smartphones. I started investigating the problems...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 21, 2020
People at my fitness center know I am a computer consultant and sometimes ask for help while I’m exercising. This summer a member asked for help with his iphone 10. It wasn’t acting right when he was playing music in Pandora and other functions. He...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 17, 2020
I have an old MacBook Pro which I love. Its screen is cracked and it appeared dead when i discovered it in my inventory earlier this year. I got it running and you can’t tell the screen his cracked. 8GB of RAM was added and now It has 10GB of RAM. The hard drive...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 9, 2020
I always carry at least one laptop with me on computer service calls. It allows me to take notes, test network connections, research on the internet and back up data. My laptops have always been DOS/Windows going back to Microsoft 3.1 and DOS. Around ten years ago, I...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 5, 2020
Friday night I got a call from a client with an interesting situation. Their Windows 10 laptop started blinking a black screen while it was being used. I connected remotely and attempted to find out what was going on. It was very hard to get anything done but I did...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 30, 2020
Last week I was at a client with a handful of desktop computers. One of them needed some network configuration and I went on my merry way and completed it. In the course of my troubleshooting I noticed the security software was having a problem on a Microsoft...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 29, 2020
It was a pleasant surprise today at the New Haven Chamber networking group. There were 20 people there today including myself which happens to be a post-lockdown record. From what I can remember we had three new networkers. One of them I know from the original New...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 23, 2020
The New Haven Chamber Networking Group meets Tuesdays at the 469 Sports and Spirits in the Lutheran Plaza Shopping Center in New Haven, IN. When I arrived today it looked like we wouldn’t have as many people as last week which was 9 or 10. We actually set a...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 16, 2020
When I walked into 469 Sports and Spirits this morning for the New Haven Chamber Networking Group, someone was already in our meeting room at 1130. It wasn’t the staff, but someone who hasn’t attended our group for a few years. It was good to have them...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 10, 2020
Computers can run slow for a number of reasons. One of them is parts of Applications( or programs) starting automatically when the computer OS starts. I’ve witnessed some Windows computers having 25 items in their startup folders making the computer sluggish....
by Shane Grantham | Sep 1, 2020
Today was Tuesday and as usual the New Haven Chamber Networking Group met at 469 Sports and Spirits at noon. It’s an informal business group giving each person a few minutes to explain their business to everyone. We had someone show up who hadn’t been at...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 23, 2020
A little bit ago I was organizing and moving pictures from my smartphone to my Linux server. I try a do it once a month or so so I can archive them and keep the smartphone clean and mean. Everything was going well then all at once, clicking on the mouse buttons...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 19, 2020
One of my long-time commercial computer clients had a problem this week. They were trying to update their Quickbooks 2019 to 2020. They were getting alerts within Quickbooks that updates were available so they thought they needed to do it. When I arrived to help with...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 18, 2020
I get asked to do a wide variety of tasks for my computer clients and last month a client needed something I think is very helpful. They wanted to add another monitor to their current Windows 10 desktop computer. They just have one monitor now and it’s getting...
