by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2016
Keeping a drink near your laptop can be dangerous for the laptop’s health. A Fort Wayne computer repair client of mine contacted me this month when a drink spilled on the keyboard of their running laptop. It’s too late for this instance, but I suggest you...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 24, 2016
LinkedIn is my number one way to look up contact information right behind my google contacts. Networkers and clients frequently ask me who I suggest for different services and most of the time they want a telephone number. Today, I was at Cartridge World and Tomm...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 23, 2016
In the last six months it seems the amount of malicious email I receive has increased quite a bit and I’m afraid to open my email at times. These messages have attachments with zipped(compressed) payloads to infect my computer. I have a Linux computer I use to...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 21, 2016
Saturday I had a Fort Wayne computer repair service call on a network printer issue. Previously, I was there installing a new windows computer. The printer in question was a model I had set up in the past many times: an HP Laserjet 4 plus. This was a very popular...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 20, 2016
It happens to all of us occasionally during the time we use a Windows computer: It completely freezes. Nothing we do revives the mouse cursor or the keyboard. You can try hitting the three keys simultaneously, ALT CTRL, DEL that sometimes opens the task manager. Then...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 18, 2016
It’s good to know what’s running on your Windows computer. I found a nice tool in Comodo Internet Security which is my software security product of choice for Microsoft Windows products. It has three main parts to the suite and my thought is if one of them...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 15, 2016
I’ve been working on an Asus netbook laptop for a Fort Wayne computer repair client which had a drink spill on the keyboard. Unfortunately, I don’t see any easy way to replace the keyboard. I took it all apart and I don’t see any way to remove it...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 15, 2016
A Fort Wayne computer repair client of mine asked me to evaluate their Microsoft Vista home computer before they started using it again after several years of inactivity. I connected all their components together, then turned it on and after Vista started, many...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 3, 2016
This week one of my service calls was to one of my all Apple Fort Wayne Computer Repair clients. They have a Mac desktop, and iPad, two iPods, and a Mac laptop. The first challenge was the Mac desktop computer’s mail program was stuck in a loop trying to send 2...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 1, 2016
I like dogs and thats a good thing because some of my Fort Wayne computer repair clients have dogs in their businesses and homes. Yesterday, for example, I had three service calls and two of the calls had dogs. My first stop had two large ones and my second stop...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 28, 2016
I was reading an article regarding one of the most dangerous malware types today: Ransomware. There are different types of malware, but this type is very dangerous because it renders your personal files unreadable and inaccessible. A ransom is demanded in order to...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 26, 2016
A new Fort Wayne computer repair client asked me for help today. They were complaining of a computer which used to be fast and now is slow. I started the investigation and found that there was only two GigaBytes of RAM and I mentioned that four would be better. The...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 24, 2016
Yesterday, a friend asked me why facebook sent them a text message with a verification code in it. I asked them if they had logged into Facebook from a new computer or device and they said no. It sounded like someone was attempting to login to my friends account or...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2016
Yesterday, I was attempting to log in to one of my desktop computers like I had for the last two years. Normally, I never have problems and today everything I tried failed to log in. I started thinking of all my passwords for all my accounts and tried my others which...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 23, 2016
Earlier this month I had a Fort Wayne computer client request a computer for light web browsing in their home office. My client was a computer novice wanted little fuss with the computer. They said their old one was slow, but they didn’t want me to...
