by Shane Grantham | May 24, 2016
I was at the gym Friday morning and got a call from a long-time business client. It seems Microsoft Windows 10 had been nagging their windows 7 computer to install for several days and the user always declined. However, today it actually started to install Windows 10....
by Shane Grantham | May 19, 2016
For Windows users it’s a fairly common need to close a program that’s not responding. The Windows task manager can be accessed by right-clicking on the taskbar at the bottom of the Windows desktop. When I’m using the Linux GUI, it happens less...
by Shane Grantham | May 16, 2016
I prefer Linux laptops to Windows laptops because of the security, speed, and robustness and last week I started configuring an old laptop with Windows Vista as the operating system. Vista was acting unreliable and I installed Linux on it to make a dual-boot...
by Shane Grantham | May 14, 2016
After eleven years of networking weekly in open groups, I’m finally running a networking group along with my counterpart, Vic Sockrider, of Kingpins Bowling. All those years networking and watching group facilitators like Bob Norris, Vic Sockrider, Windy Cobb,...
by Shane Grantham | May 13, 2016
In most businesses when you have more than one computer, you want to connect them together to share things like files and folders. In a Microsoft Windows environment I know of two ways: using a file server model or a peer-peer model. In a server model. the...