by Shane Grantham | Dec 30, 2022
I was on a service call today performing a computer check-up and tune-up. My client’s computer had thousands of files in various folders on their Windows 10 computer. My client hasn’t copied any of these files to a backup device that they could remember....
by Shane Grantham | Aug 28, 2022
I have many clients that only call when they have an emergency or problem. It would be better for them if they had me visit regularly to check out their systems and backup data. One of my long-time business clients called me and explained they were infected. (The...
by Shane Grantham | May 7, 2022
In my IT inventory are many older hard drives- some are IDEs and some are the SATA interface. Many came out of desktop PCs and others from laptops. The ones which can’t be sold or used in computers have been repurposed. I use them for backing up my data on my...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 21, 2022
One of my old computers has a newer version of Linux Mint I installed recently. I decided to enable the recovery utility called timeshift this time. It’s good to test the programs so I know features I can share with my clients. Timeshift allows you to go back in...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 19, 2020
I got a panicked call while I was at Basches Martial Arts last week just as we were finishing up Jiu-Jitsu. My caller was one of my CPA clients in the middle of tax season and their Windows 10 PC completely shut down while they were using it. I drove directly to their...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 4, 2018
A new computer repair client contacted me last month regarding a laptop that had display problems. They could tell the laptop had electrical power but, the screen was blank. When I got a hold of the laptop, It seemed ok in the video area. But as time went on, the...
