by Shane Grantham | Jun 7, 2016
Do you want your private wireless network broadcasting its presence? I would say no, unless you have an open wireless network for your customers that are waiting in your lobby or enjoying food and spirits at your restaurant or similar establishment. If you are most...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 7, 2016
I was summoned to a Fort Wayne office this week for an old clone computer that was freezing randomly while in use. To my surprise, it had Linux Mint 17 installed as the main operating system. It originally had windows XP media center on it and a relative of my...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 6, 2016
Many of you know one of my business passions is networking in open groups and I have the fortune of running a local group along with Vic Sockrider every Tuesday. The New Haven Chamber wanted to start one and Vic and I volunteered to run it. Vic used to run a group...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 5, 2016
Should I e-mail clients when I use Social Media so often? That is one question I have been asking myself for a long time. I used to send out a regular e-mail message to all my clients just to let them know I was still alive and doing computer repair. But lately,...
by Shane Grantham | May 31, 2016
While I was on a Fort Wayne computer repair service call this month, a client asked me if I could help them get Netflix on their large-screen TV. After I had most of the computer work completed and some scans running, I tackled the television issue by asking...
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...
