by Shane Grantham | Feb 9, 2022
One of the things I do in computer maintenance for Microsoft Windows is check if your hard drive is on a optimize schedule. Optimizing can speed up Windows by putting all the parts of a file in a continuous location. In this way the read head of the hard drive...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2022
One of the things that can slow down a Microsoft Windows computer is hard drive fragmentation. This is where parts of a file are spread all over the drive and not in one contiguous piece. If you you have a sold-state drive, they don’t need...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 9, 2020
This weekend a family member had scanned many family photos and they wanted me to have a copy of all the pictures. I brought over my external 750GB hard drive and connected it to my laptop first to clean it up. It wasn’t recognized by my apple laptop and I knew...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 2, 2019
I was talking to a Fort Wayne computer repair client of mine last week about their Windows 7 laptop which was about eight years old. A few months previous I worked on it to make it faster. Typical software and operating system tasks were done and my client said it was...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 4, 2017
When I’m trying to determine a computer’s problem for a client, it’s nice to have testing(diagnostic) tools for the hardware. If the computer is misbehaving, like re-booting and freezing; it may very well be the hardware at fault and not the...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 17, 2017
The hard drive in your computer is an important device that holds your files while the computer is running and when it’s not. Some of these files are operating system files like Windows or Linux or Mac. Other types are software programs that allow you to get...