by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2023
Yesterday I wrote about my HP laptop that has Linux and Windows XP on it. It’s used only for my Video hardware convertor and programming my ham radio Handie-Talkie. I didn’t mention that It’s never put on the internet in Windows XP – So...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 3, 2022
Someone at my gym said, “You work on computers don’t you?” last week. We discussed their problem and the next day I took their laptop back to my office workbench. It seems the laptop took a tumble off the couch with the charger connected to it. Now...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 24, 2022
I got a phone call this morning from a current client who couldn’t use an old laptop. An attempt was made over the phone to correct the problem and it didn’t solve it. They couldn’t tell which cable was the power cable so I made a service call. In...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 7, 2021
My wife and I were at a family wedding this summer where many pictures were taken by a photographer. Today the pictures were shared with us at a family lunch. They were copied to a USB drive of mine from a Windows 10 laptop. From there the USB drive was put into my...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 6, 2021
A while back I wrote about my kitchen laptop with the built-in wireless networking problem. Well, the external wireless I added worked for a while but then both network devices stopped working. I put the laptop in my garage on the workbench for a week and left it...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 27, 2020
I use laptops frequently in my computer repair business. The majority of the time to move the mouse cursor the built-in trackpad is used. Scrolling up and down pages is a hassle using the side scrollbar on the screen. You have to hover the cursor right over the bar,...
