by Shane Grantham | Oct 4, 2025
All operating systems need updated for different reasons like security, stability and functionality. Microsoft’s approach in Windows 10 was forcing the updates on users and sometimes rebooting the computer while it was in use. Windows 11 seems to have...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 8, 2025
I take it for granted that Linux computers can read Microsoft Windows file systems on hard drives. It doesn’t work the other way in most cases. Using Linux to read the NTFS file system saved a client’s data last month when their Windows laptop had a...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 15, 2024
I use three operating systems in my business and personal life: Windows, Apple, and Linux. Most of my clients use Microsoft Windows so I’m probably better with windows operating systems. Most of my computers are Linux-based yet I have windows 10’s and one...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 8, 2023
Like many of you I use computers often and sometimes have many programs and web browsers open. Many years ago I discovered a shortcut for closing programs. I probably read it in a computer magazine. It’s a keyboard sequence of two keys: Alt and F4. You hold...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 19, 2023
Many computers are part of my business and personal life. My main office computer is a Linux Mint 20.x machine which used to have Windows 7 installed. Linux does well on it the majority of the time but today it was slow and the hard drive LED was solid most of the...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2023
I was at a client recently working on their printers, Apple laptops, smartphones and Apple tablets. They asked me what kind of computer person I was. As they were asking me, I knew immediately what they meant. They thought I would say Windows instead of Mac/Apple. I...
