by Shane Grantham | Feb 24, 2017
Last week I was repairing a MacBook Pro laptop with a start up problem. The Apple disk utilities found the hard drive defective and I replaced the hard drive. The operating system reinstalled from the Apple recovery cloud so the laptop is back to normal. After the...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 20, 2017
Someone texted me tonight that they screwed up their Windows 7 laptop when they were doing some housecleaning on it. They removed the display adapter driver somehow and now their Windows 7 desktop icons were huge. It needed changed back so the computer could be used...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 16, 2017
I received a phone call today from someone new to my Fort Wayne Computer Repair business.They needed help with their MacBook Pro laptop. I always ask where they found my company and it was from an Internet search. When they saw I was a small, local business with...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 15, 2017
One of the ways I advertise my computer business is on the Internet with free business listings I learned from Kevin Mullett. Probably the most important one is Google. To help my ranking, I ask my clients to review my company, Shane Grantham Consulting, Inc. on...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 13, 2017
I had an odd dream this week. Apparently, I was working for a company as an employee, something I ceased doing over ten years ago. It was a computer repair company and may have been the last place I was employed when I was an outside computer technician. Or maybe it...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 11, 2017
I got a call today from a computer repair client who had a laptop emergency – they broke their screen. They could still see the computer image on it, but it was unusable. They were desperate to get it repaired so I got the model and serial number from them. Then...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 8, 2017
Your computer’s desktop is your creative space and should be setup the way you want it. It should also help you be productive, too. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of desktops from crammed full of icons to very sparse. I was at a computer repair...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 6, 2017
I repair laptop computers for my Fort Wayne computer repair clients. Along with the laptop, I also need the AC Adapter for the computer so I can keep it powered on during the repair. Sometimes my clients forget the AC Adapter when they deliver the laptop to me. On the...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 5, 2017
I created a Snapchat account last year because I heard about it at the Social Media Marketing Breakfast Fort Wayne. Whenever I hear about a new social network, I join it so my contact information is available in another place on the internet for those people who do...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 3, 2017
Comodo Internet Security has been my favorite security and anti-malware program for many years for myself and my Fort Wayne computer repair clients. It has versions which protects Microsoft Windows and a version for Linux computers. The Windows version has 3 modules...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 1, 2017
After eleven years of weekly networking, I have heard many commercials from fellow business networkers. One topic we networkers need to avoid in our commercials is personal problems or struggles. Telling the networking group about your medical issues, vehicle or...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 30, 2017
One of my printers in my office is an HP Laser Jet 1012 black and white which a computer repair client of mine gave to me. The reason they gave it away escapes me now. It may have had a problem I repaired or perhaps they couldn’t get it to work in Microsoft...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 30, 2017
There are many computer services I can do for you and one of them is laptop screen replacement. One was done this week on an HP Windows 7 laptop for a new Fort Wayne business client. The laptop had been stepped on and the screen was damaged. The laptop was powered on...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 26, 2017
Over the past year, I’ve experienced a handful of Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 7 computers which refuse to install operating system updates. Sometimes, I can repair the problems and other times I can’t. One of my business clients has a Windows 7...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 25, 2017
Ransomware viruses are something you don’t want to encounter on your Windows computers. A ransomware virus can come from different places like a web site or email attachments. They seek out your user files like documents and pictures and then encrypt them so...
