We all know the basics of using Microsoft Office. What most of us don’t know are all the shortcuts to do things that we would normaly use the mouse to do. Why would we want to use the keyboard instead? To save time. Anytime you remove your hands from the keyboard to do somethig that…
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Guest Posting by Liam of LiamTek.com This laptop came into my shop earlier this week and it would appear that some work has been done on it before… The above is the power adapter, modified to use an old headphone jack to plug into the DC jack on the laptop. So for starters this is…
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I hear the above often, very often. So in this post, we will answer the following questions: 1 What is defragging? 2 Does it really make a difference? 3 Can it hurt my computer? First things first what is fragmentation? Think of a hard drive as an empty book. You then fill it with programs…
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Above is the inside of a typical laptop. This machine was just over a year old when it came to visit my shop. At Gem State Computers all laptops that we work on get a full physical cleaning top to bottom. The reason it was in my shop had nothing to do with the generous…
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Scareware is a general class of malware that is “sold” to consumers via very unethical marketing practices. The makers of the Scareware start by loading a screen on your computer that “warns” you that your computer is at risk. Often these messages will look similar or identical to actual Windows…
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