Viruses and what to do about them
Viruses. Spyware. Malware. Scareware. Worms. Chances are you or someone you know has been affected by one of these little buggers at some point. If not, count yourself among the lucky. Almost all users will be hit more than once in their computing lifetimes. Viruses have progressed from little annoyances that only displayed unwanted messages [...]
read moreGoogle Instant Search
So I was on Google today (I know, shocker) and I noticed that as I typed, I started getting search results instantly, which changed and auto-refined as I typed more. Insane. If you haven’t been to Google today, get over there now and check it out. Amazing. My searches are now 2 sec faster. Life [...]
read moreMove your files from your old PC to your new one, and it actually works!
I know this might sound weird coming from a computer guy, but I hadn’t had a chance to mess with the Windows 7 “Windows Easy Transfer” which allows you to move all of your stuff from an older machine to your new Windows 7 machine. Microsoft had this functionality back in Windows XP, but it [...]
read moreGoing All Custom on Your Router
This is for those people who aren’t afraid of getting their hands a little dirty and doing some tweaking. For those of you out there that have Linksys brand wireless routers, you may have noticed that you have to reboot those routers on a semi-regular basis. (Linksys is not alone on this, most consumer routers [...]
read moreWindows Media Sharing issues with Vista and Windows 7
As great as the newer versions of Windows are, sometimes we run across really strange issues that cause huge performance issues. Once such issue has arisen with Windows Media Sharing. By default, in both Windows Vista and 7, Windows Media Sharing will share out folders like your Music, Pictures, and Videos folders so that trusted [...]
read moreClick Click Clicky (part 2)
This kind of qualifies as an amendment to the last Click Click Clicky article, as I had an experience with a customer that just begged to be added here. One of my friend’s aunts had her laptop in the shop this week because it wouldn’t boot up correctly. We found that it had a bad [...]
read moreClick Click Clicky
Some of you will cringe at the mention of those words. Some of you have had the good fortune to never have had experienced it yet. And I emphasize ‘yet’. For those who haven’t run into this before, click click clicky is what we at UNI call a hard drive failing. Inside the drive there [...]
read moreDell Support
“Thank you for Calling Dell Support, my name is _[insert American sounding name]_.” While the name could be as American as apple pie and John Wayne, the thick non-American accent is still a tell-tale sign. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with our friends around the globe. I just prefer to do business locally [...]
read moreJust in case you ‘need’ to go back…
My wife just started a grad school program, and is currently cramming her head full of all kinds of stuff that I barely understand. Among these things there is a Windows based program that the students have to run in order do some of the studying. This is all fine and good for my wife [...]
read moreVideos, Email, Zipping, huh?
I was talking to a customer yesterday on the phone and he was telling me how he had these instructions from his online poker coach on how to download and watch this video demonstrating some mad poker skills. The directions went something like this: Download these 5 emails I sent you. Go install this media player. Go [...]
read moreAnyone can be tech-savvy…
How true this seems sometimes. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve started fixing a problem with a computer, and when I ask what part of the computer was worked on last, the customer tells me “oh my neighbor’s son who ‘knows’ things about computers fixed it.” Now don’t get me wrong, this is [...]
read more“NTLDR is missing” NTLD-What?
You may have seen this before: NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl Alt Del to Restart The NTLDR is missing error usually occurs right when you hit the power button on the computer. White text, black screen. No mouse cursor. No desktop. Only sadness. ‘NTLDR is missing’ usually means that a certain file or files on [...]
read moreWhich AntiVirus is the Best?
To build suspense, we’ll start with what we don’t recommend. First up? Free anti-virus software. We’re always hoping for a free solution to come along and dominate the market. But, unfortunately, it still hasn’t happened. We’ve tried a host of options including the big “free three” AVG, Avast and Avira. Unfortunately, they all fall short [...]
read moreBackup Solutions
What’s The Worst that Could Happen Think for a moment how devastating it would be if you were to lose ALL of the data stored on your computer. What kind of setback would that cause? For students this could mean the difference between passing or failing a class. For the business professional this could be [...]
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