by Shane Grantham | Aug 17, 2016
Wireless printers are a great convenience for homes and businesses and they can be tricky to configure especially when it comes to attaching to your wireless network. More than a couple of clients have asked me to setup their wireless printers after they gave up. I...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 16, 2016
I’m cautious opening email attachments, even from people I know. I got an email from one of my computer repair clients last week that he sends out to a group of recipients regarding his area of expertise. These are usually sent out bi-weekly or monthly –...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 15, 2016
A recent laptop repair on a Samsung Windows laptop turned into a nightmare. The owner called me to work on his laptop which was dropped on it’s edge with the AC adapter/charger connected. The laptop no longer charged from the AC adapter and I offered to see if...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 14, 2016
Tuesday before our networking group, I was assisting New Haven Chamber’s Monika with her Kindle reader. It seems she was having problems downloading an e-book to it, although she had done it in the past. We started with her Windows laptop because this will be...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 10, 2016
A Fort Wayne computer repair client had a Windows 7 laptop which wouldn’t allow them to log into Windows. It was returning a User Profile error every time the correct password was entered. Then the login process started all over again and it prompted for the...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 9, 2016
This week a networker had me make a computer repair service call to their office to troubleshoot a Dropbox problem. The problem was on their Apple Macintosh desktop computer instead of the typical Microsoft Windows computer. There were thousands of files to upload...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 8, 2016
I help facilitate the New Haven Chamber of Commerce networking group along with businessman Vic Sockrider on Tuesdays noon at Rack and Helens. It’s open to everyone, even non-chamber members. We used to meet upstairs in a private conference room, but it seemed...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 6, 2016
A rare and interesting challenge awaited me this week from a new computer repair client. The user had taken their HP Windows 10 laptop to an Apple Mac computer place to have data copied to their new Mac laptop. When they got the HP back, a strange login screen...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 1, 2016
Most of the time my computer repair service calls are on Microsoft Windows computers. Once in a while I get the pleasure of working with Macintosh’s or Linux computers and last month this actually happened. I was working on hardware issues on this Linux Mint...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 31, 2016
I was at one of my business computer repair clients recently helping them increase the performance of their computer network. One of the employees had a Laser printer next to their windows computer and asked me for help with it. It was connected directly to the...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 30, 2016
A couple of months ago I had a Fort Wayne computer repair service call on a loud Linux computer. One of the complaints was how load the computer had become. I examined the outside of the computer case in the rear and saw the power supply and case fans were turning at...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 29, 2016
The Inspire Networking Group meets Thursdays at Angel’s Cafe on the Northeast side of Fort Wayne and is run by Windy Cobb and June Emerick. It’s a business group which can be serious and still have fun. We meet at a big table right by the front door so we get...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 27, 2016
One of my long-time Fort Wayne computer repair clients was in a panic when they called this afternoon. “I’ve only got 1 or 2 days to upgrade to Microsoft Windows 10 for free and when I went to do it, a message said my video was not compatible and the...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 25, 2016
I had a new Fort Wayne Computer repair client ask me, “How do I scan a picture to my computer?” They were writing a book and needed a hand-drawn illustration inserted into the book. They opened the lid for his all-in-one Brother printer/scanner/copier...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 23, 2016
I don’t remember who it was, but a networker back in 2007-2008 talked about leaving a business card at restaurants after their meal. I’ve been doing that ever since and yesterday it paid off again. I got a call from an author and blogger who found my card...
