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,...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 30, 2019
My laptop is probably my main tool in my computer repair business. It holds my accounting program, it gets used for troubleshooting and for data recovery. It’s a 9 year-old business class Lenovo Thinkpad. You can tell it’s a business laptop because it...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 12, 2019
Last week I was in my kitchen making a meal for myself. Things were all over the counter – food containers, food and smartphones. I was making room for myself and pushed a tray towards the edge when tragedy struck. My kitchen laptop fell to the floor on its...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 16, 2019
A friend brought me their touchscreen laptop last month. The screen was cracked in the upper right-hand corner and they wanted to know if it was worth repairing. I started researching how hard it would be to replace the touchscreen and how much a new screen cost. ...
