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Happy holidays, ’tis the season for scamming. It’s that time of year again where online scams begin to rise. It’s imperative to be on the lookout to avoid being a victim yourself. In today’s installment, we will outline some common scam schemes and how to avoid becoming a victim. The Tech Support Scam These scams rely on using scary sounding webpages to deceive you into believing your computer is actively under attack by a problem. [Read More]

Now that a vast majority of folks are working from home, a HUGE focus has shifted to home internet and the fun problems people experience. I feel like every other article I read anymore is about how you can solve your home WiFi issues with these 5 simple tricks… Ah, tech writing at its finest. In today’s post, I’m going to go over the basics of how your home WiFi works, and help you debug some common issues you might be facing. [Read More]

Hope you all are doing well out there. I know the world is in a strange place right now, but today’s post is hopefully going to help you solve your computer issues without having to get outside help. Windows 10 has some great built-in tools inside of the Start-Up Repair environment that can very well get your computer back into working order without having to get someone to fix it for you. [Read More]

The amount of times I have had customers come to me saying a recent Windows Update has broken their computer is honestly astounding. Because of this, I decided it was about time I wrote up what I typically do when a customer brings me a “broken” Windows 10 computer (usually caused by a Windows Update). Outlined below are the four options you have to recover your computer if it is acting funny or no longer boots up. [Read More]

Windows 7 is being End-Of-Lifed (new verb, yes) on January 14th, 2020 - a whole 6 days from when I’m writing this. I’ve already been asked by customers what this really means to the end user a few times, so I figured it was about time to write something up. Here’s my quick summary on what the End of Life / End of Support for Windows 7 really means to you - the user of a computer who just wants things to not change. [Read More]

This is going to be a quick post about upgrading / migrating / cloning your hard drive to a newer, faster solid state drive. I plan to have a few more in-depth guides on this process, but this post will be a generic overview if you’re thinking of making the upgrade. The plan is discuss what you will need and what to look out for when purchasing a new solid state drive for upgrading. [Read More]

I’m going to continue on with the theme of tool-related posts and bring you one on removing viruses, pop-ups, spyware, malware, and all those other scary virus-related words. In this post, we’ll cover in what situations you should use Malwarebytes and how to get it up and running. When should I NOT use virus-removal software? To start off, yes, there are situations when you should NOT use virus removal software to attempt to disinfect your computer. [Read More]