by Shane Grantham | Jul 30, 2023
A long-time computer client asked me to look at their Apple laptop they’ve owned for many years. It’s very slow to start and it would stall when loading the desktop. Eventually, It rebooted and start the agonizing process all over again. All sorts of...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 27, 2023
This month I was helping a business computer client with their main computer program. It was on a Windows 10 desktop computer. It had been downloaded off the internet and for some reason they couldn’t install it. After I repaired the problem, I was ready to...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 19, 2023
One of my clients had a a problem in their business office last week. Intermittently, they would get an unsafe message about a web site the company has been using for years. We know it’s safe and some of their computers were fine on this site. All sorts of...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 15, 2023
I take many forms of payment like credit cards, cash, Venmo, Paypal, and the Cash App. Most of the time I get paid by check for my computer services and it goes very smooth. This last two weeks I had a long-time client attempt to mail me a check to my business P.O....
by Shane Grantham | Jul 11, 2023
Once again this year my company was nominated for the Fort Wayne Newspapers Readers Choice Awards in the categories of Best Computer Repair Store and Best Electronics Store. My company is neither one of these two, but it’s the closest categories they have for...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 4, 2023
My latest computer is a Lenovo Ideapad 3 laptop with Windows 11 Home installed. It was purchased about a year ago so I could learn the operating system. I also needed a fast Windows computer and my two old laptops are too slow for field work. When I first got the...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 3, 2023
One IT(Information Technology) area I want to improve is in security. The IT certification organization compTIA has a series of certifications I’ve acquired. Years ago I got the A+, Linux+ and Network+. The certification I want to get next is the Security+...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 2, 2023
Working on my client’s computer issues makes it harder to work on my own problems. Lately, my main desktop computer has hesitated on start ups and I have to repair it often. I ran the disk utility and discovered it had bad sectors on the hard drive. This means...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 28, 2023
A new client called me last week with an Apple MacBook need. They wanted the battery replaced because it isn’t holding a charge like it did when it was new. I researched the procedure and discovered a few videos of it. It looked complex but one video I...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 14, 2023
Someone new called me last week about their Dell desktop computer. It wasn’t displaying any video on the screen before they brought it to me. When I fired it up on my workbench, the video worked fine. Later I contacted them and found out it was a sporadic...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 2, 2023
My favorite Operating System is Linux and the loading process is managed by the GRUB boot loader. GRUB is not something you would find in the ground! GRUB stands for Grand Unified Boot Loader. It allows the computer to boot one or more operating systems among other...
by Shane Grantham | May 28, 2023
The main computer in my office (I have four desktop computers) runs Linux Mint with two monitors. Two monitors used to be enough for all the open programs I used. It would be more productive to have more monitors but my computer hardware doesn’t have another...
by Shane Grantham | May 28, 2023
Back in the early 2000’s I studied for IT three certifications and took tests for them. I passed them and have the A+, Linux+ and Network+ certifications. They’ve been forgotten in my computer career and this year I investigated if I’m still...
by Shane Grantham | May 26, 2023
One of the keyboard shortcuts I’ve use since the 1990s for GUI interfaces is still applicable to 2023. It works for any Microsoft windows flavor and it works in most Linux distributions. It’s the ALT-F4 combo. Hold the ALT key down while pressing the F4...
by Shane Grantham | May 24, 2023
I was leaving the gym today when I heard someone calling my name. It was one of my computer clients who was also a Catalyst Fitness member. He was telling me how his son does almost all of his computer work on his smartphone and how I should also work on...