by Shane Grantham | Jun 12, 2019
I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad that is one of my main laptops. It came with only 2 GBs of RAM and last night I increased that to 6GB. I set this laptop to dual boot to either Microsoft Windows 10 or Linux Mint 18.x. I opened Window 10 and only 3GB of the 6.0 is used...
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 | Jun 29, 2017
I have a Dell laptop which was having hardware problems these past two days. When it was powered on, it would try and start Windows 7, fail and then freeze during the repair procedure. I tried running the Dell built-in diagnostics with the F12-key as the computer was...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 21, 2017
I was looking at the system statistics of my Windows 10 desktop computer today and noticed something interesting. The total size of the RAM or Memory for the computer is 4.00GB, but the usable part is only 3.42GB. Memory temporarily holds programs, the operating...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 22, 2016
I was on computer service call in Fort Wayne last month for a client who had my business card and didn’t know where he got it. One of the issues they needed resolved was a Microsoft Windows Vista computer which was extremely slow. They had someone investigate...
