by Shane Grantham | Jun 29, 2017
I have a Dell laptop which was having hardware problems these past two days. When it was powered on, it would try and start Windows 7, fail and then freeze during the repair procedure. I tried running the Dell built-in diagnostics with the F12-key as the computer was...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 28, 2017
My security product of choice is Comodo Internet Security for Windows and Linux computers. During installation of Comodo, it prompts the user to let it change the browser’s home page to Yahoo. If you do nothing, it gets changed so the installer has to click the...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 23, 2017
We all get fake(phishing) email messages and today I wanted to investigate one I get on a regular basis. It’s supposed to be from a company I formerly did business with so I was curious to see what it was about. I don’t typically open suspicious email...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 22, 2017
My smartphone gave a warning this morning that an application tried to access something it shouldn’t have. An investigation began and I opened up the list of applications(apps) to see if anything looked suspicious, On my Android I opened Settings -More...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 21, 2017
I was looking at the system statistics of my Windows 10 desktop computer today and noticed something interesting. The total size of the RAM or Memory for the computer is 4.00GB, but the usable part is only 3.42GB. Memory temporarily holds programs, the operating...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 20, 2017
Earlier this spring a new computer client asked me to convert their VHS tape they created in 2001 of a martial arts demo they filmed. It wasn’t copyrighted or trademarked so I didn’t see any legal reason not to go ahead with the request. It’s been...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 19, 2017
I love Social Media because it let’s me show off personally and advertise professionally. It lets me see what’s going on with my family, friends and clients. Another use is promoting Networking Groups I attend and the one I help run. At last weeks New...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 17, 2017
I’ve been attending networking groups for 11 years on a weekly basis and it has definitely kept me in business and made business fun, too. Some weeks I do two meetings, but usually it’s one. All this networking translates into attending many different...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 15, 2017
I break down computer problems into four areas: hardware, software, operating system, and user. With the complexity of today’s computers, it’s hard to know where to start troubleshooting sometimes. If I suspect hardware is the culprit, I might be lucky and...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 15, 2017
Sometimes in the course of using your Windows computer, it gets so messed up that it’s unusable. Maybe a Windows update corrupted it, a severe virus infection can’t be cured, or something unknown happened and Windows won’t start. In these cases, some...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 10, 2017
A few days ago, I wrote about Comcast/Xfinity doesn’t support Linux for streaming television over a computer. I ran into another Linux snag where a remote control service wouldn’t let my Linux computer control one of my client’s computers....
by Shane Grantham | Jun 8, 2017
I love using the Linux operating system on desktop and laptop computers. It doesn’t have the update issues which I see with Microsoft Windows computers where updates refuse to install or corrupts Windows so it won’t start. Linux is also safer where...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 8, 2017
My computer repair business work is interesting since I work on many different operating systems and computers. Some of the operating systems I service are Microsoft windows , Linux and Apple OS. This month I got to work on an Apple Desktop computer which was...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 4, 2017
I was at a client this week working on some strange messages their web browser was displaying on their Windows 7 and Windows 10 computers. I started working on the issue and when it came time to download some Internet tools, nothing would download. Eventually all...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 1, 2017
This week a long-time computer client of mine had an issue with their Chromebook laptop. After several years reading about Chromebooks in tech articles, this is the first one I ever encountered with a computer client. Everything was functioning on it except printing...
