Why are some of my Google business reviews disappearing?

Like many of you, my business is listed on many Internet business directories like Bing, yahoo, yp and Google. I have received some business from people searching the internet for computer repair using Google. It’s a nice complement to my networking group...

New Networking Group starting on Thursdays

Many of you know how my computer repair business has been helped by networking groups over the past 10 years and my passion for networking every week.  My first networking group in 2005 was sponsored by the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and I still have computer...

Windows 10 appeared on my computer

Last week a Fort Wayne computer repair client of mine had me to over to troubleshoot what used to be a Microsoft Windows 7 computer.  Two days ago, Windows 10 showed up.  My client got messages from Microsoft leading up to the Windows 10 installation informing them...

My computer monitor is blank

One of my Fort Wayne computer repair clients called me in a panic recently when they were adjusting their computer monitor on their desk. They accidentally touched one of the five monitor push-buttons along the front. The computer monitor went blank and for two hours...

Why does Excel always open these spreadsheets?

One of my long-time Fort Wayne computer repair clients had a virus attack this year on their Microsoft Windows 7 computer. We got it cleaned up and the computer running normal again. Later, the client noticed that when they opened Excel to work on a spreadsheet three...

I spilled a drink on my laptop

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...

Put your telephone number on LinkedIn!

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...

Afraid to open my email

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...

Network printer

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...

When your Windows computer freezes

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...

What’s running on your Windows computer?

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...

Netbook laptop keyboard replacement

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...

Very slow Vista computer

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...

Macintosh computers need free hard drive space, too.

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...

My clients and their animals

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...

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