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Computer Repairs Simple – Utah computer Repair
Did you know that the easiest repair you can do on your computer is to restart it. It will fix simple problems 50% of the time. When problems occur on a computer, restarting will clear the RAM and make it start up again without those errors. Many people will close [...]
RAM & Hard Drive Needs – Utah Computer Repair – Pleasant Grove Utah
You need sufficient hard drive space and enough RAM for a computer to run correctly. If you get down to a few megabytes free on your hard drive, it will slow way down. Same with the amount of RAM.
Weather Bug Review – Sandy, Draper Computer Repair
This video reviews one of my favorite gadgets. I like to know the weather and it works without causing problems on my computers. Gadgets are available in Vista and Windows 7.
All-In-One Computer Review – Utah Computer Repair
All-in-One computers are becoming more popular. They are the big screen PC that has the entire computer behind the screen. No more desktop or tower below you. They are also becoming more affordable and better built. The first All-in-One PCs were notebook computers stuck on the back of [...]
USB devices Stops PC from Starting – Utah Computer PC Repair
USB is short for Universal Serial Bus – It is a standard way of connecting many things. Printers, Flash Drives, Web Cams and most everything else use USB connectors to connect to your PC. From time to time I will run into a computer repair that needs only the usb [...]
More RAM won’t solve slow PC problem
Often times people call me in because they want more ram in their computers. They have learned that more ram can make a computer faster. This is true. But if you computer was running OK, then got slow, it probably isn’t a ram problem. You probably have a virus or [...]
Power Supply Problems – Size matters
I recently repaired an HP mini desktop computer. It’s power supply had gone out. The surprise for me was the cost to replace the power supply. Because it was a mini case, the power supply was smaller than the average power supply. The connectors were smaller too. You can [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 – Free?
When you buy a new computer these days from the large companies, Dell, HP, Gateway, Sony and more they include an item in the start bar that will give you a basic version of Microsoft Excel and Word for free. This is the 2010 version of Word and Excel. I have purchased [...]
Great deals on Computers
People are often asking me where to get computers. I just picked up a new notebook for my son going to college at Staples. I watched the Sunday ads or you can go to the website and look at the weekly ads. I found what looked like a good deal. The [...]
Data Recovery – has many meanings
Data Recovery
Data Recovery is a term that can mean many things, much like computer upgrade. Data recovery in the broad sense means recovering or copying data from a hard drive.
Sometimes it can be as easy as getting the computer to run well enough to simple copy and paste it onto [...]