by Shane Grantham | May 27, 2016
A new client who met me at Norris networking a few years ago called me about their computer that is slow on the internet and freezes on them. I made a service call to their office to find a Microsoft Windows 7 desktop computer. There was over half the hard drive...
by Shane Grantham | May 24, 2016
When I talk to people about social media, I start with LinkedIn which most networkers say they are members, but don’t know what to do on it. LinkedIn allows you to post pictures, videos and links. You can also tag your connections just like tagging friends in...
by Shane Grantham | May 24, 2016
I was at the gym Friday morning and got a call from a long-time business client. It seems Microsoft Windows 10 had been nagging their windows 7 computer to install for several days and the user always declined. However, today it actually started to install Windows 10....
by Shane Grantham | May 19, 2016
For Windows users it’s a fairly common need to close a program that’s not responding. The Windows task manager can be accessed by right-clicking on the taskbar at the bottom of the Windows desktop. When I’m using the Linux GUI, it happens less...
by Shane Grantham | May 16, 2016
I prefer Linux laptops to Windows laptops because of the security, speed, and robustness and last week I started configuring an old laptop with Windows Vista as the operating system. Vista was acting unreliable and I installed Linux on it to make a dual-boot...
by Shane Grantham | May 14, 2016
After eleven years of networking weekly in open groups, I’m finally running a networking group along with my counterpart, Vic Sockrider, of Kingpins Bowling. All those years networking and watching group facilitators like Bob Norris, Vic Sockrider, Windy Cobb,...
by Shane Grantham | May 13, 2016
In most businesses when you have more than one computer, you want to connect them together to share things like files and folders. In a Microsoft Windows environment I know of two ways: using a file server model or a peer-peer model. In a server model. the...
by Shane Grantham | May 11, 2016
When you perform a factory restore or sometimes called a factory image restore, be cautious. In most cases it will write over your data and programs you installed and put the computer back the way it was when you bought it. Back up any files and settings you...
by Shane Grantham | May 9, 2016
I wrote about the Vista laptop a few days ago that was having problems. I started a Comodo cleaning Essentials scan and it ran at least 9 hours without any infections found, but the laptop froze and i never did find out if it was clean. The Comodo Cleaning Essentials...
by Shane Grantham | May 8, 2016
My first networking group I attended was the New Haven Chamber of Commerce networking group which was run by Randall Brubaker and Doug Burgess in 2005. We met at noon every other Monday and later it was increased to a weekly meeting. That first meeting had around 30...
by Shane Grantham | May 5, 2016
I’ve seen many laptops over the years and one feature I like to have isolated from the keyboard are the audio controls. Cheaper models put them on one of the keyboard keys sharing duty with another key. On more expensive models I have seen them on a separate...
by Shane Grantham | May 3, 2016
More times than I can remember, clients have asked for help when they have lost an email message within their email program like Outlook. This also applies to Email web interfaces like Comcast or Frontier or even other prgrams. If you’ve tried the search...
by Shane Grantham | May 2, 2016
I have been working on a Microsoft Vista laptop last week when I have time. The previous owner retired it and gave it to me because they got a new Windows 10 one. I try to use many different operating systems to stay up to date on them – even older ones. The...
by Shane Grantham | May 1, 2016
I’ve been networking in open groups practically every week since August of 2005. These groups have helped my business and personal life more than you can imagine. My first group was the New Haven Chamber of Commerce where we met at the Marine Corps League on...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 30, 2016
I was at the Fortune Buffet yesterday for lunch where they have a nice food selection. It seems to be clean and well-stocked during the usual lunch and dinner times. Whenever I am out in public, I wear a business shirt with my logo on it and today it came in handy. I...
