by Shane Grantham | Sep 25, 2019
A new Fort Wayne computer repair client called me this month wanting assistance with their email. They were using a Windows 7 desktop computer with Mozilla Thunderbird as the email client. They could open the email messages, but when they clicked on any link inside a...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 16, 2019
A friend brought me their touchscreen laptop last month. The screen was cracked in the upper right-hand corner and they wanted to know if it was worth repairing. I started researching how hard it would be to replace the touchscreen and how much a new screen cost. ...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 15, 2019
A friend and client called me about a optical scanner which wouldn’t work in Microsoft Windows 7 for them. They downloaded a driver which didn’t work. I suggested they install Linux Mint along side windows 7 to give them a second opinion. They found It...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 9, 2019
I helped a client of mine recently prepare for the end of support and updates for Microsoft Windows 7. They have been using Microsoft Windows 7 for many years and wanted to be ready when the updates cease next year. At first I proposed upgrading to Windows 10 which...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 22, 2019
I have a laptop for my kitchen that plays internet web sites when I’m preparing food or eating(which can be often when I’m home.). It’s easily eleven years-old and came shipped from Acer with Windows Vista. I like it because it has a wheel volume...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 19, 2019
Today I was posting some items for sale on FaceBook Marketplace. Pictures were taken with one of my old smartphones and they needed moved to FB. My goal was to connect the smartphone’s USB port to the computer. The USB connector was on the rear of the computer...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 19, 2019
Every summer I switch out my long-sleeve company logo shirts for short-sleeves in my closet. As I’m going through them and arranging every year, I come across three black short-sleeve ones and I say the same thing, “Why do I have three of them?” One...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 17, 2019
One of my business networking friends contacted me this week about their Dell laptop which wouldn’t power on. I picked it up at their business and brought it back to my workbench along with one AC Adapter. They said they have two AC adapters and neither powers...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 15, 2019
Yesterday, my wife let me know my company was nominated for the 2019 Fort Wayne Newspapers Readers’ Choice under the Best Computer Repair Store category. Click here for the link. I’m not a store, but this is the best category for me of the ones...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 13, 2019
It’s interesting to see how different computer manufacturers design their hardware. Yesterday I was working on a Toshiba satellite laptop and was looking for the Windows key on the keyboard. Usually it’s on the bottom row near the Ctrl(Control) and Alt...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 6, 2019
A computer client of mine couldn’t find a folder on their new Dell Windows 10 computer last week. Earlier in the month I copied the files from their old computer to the new one and put them in a folder on the desktop. They were manually searching through the...
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...
