» by Randy Knowles July 18, 2012 at 9:18 am » Comments (76)

Hello everyone, Update: I have a more recent FBI MoneyPak removal post here (another variant of the virus). A client called me today with a machine (Windows 7) infected with the FBI ...more »

» by Randy Knowles July 16, 2012 at 3:40 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, In part 1 of this series I talked about the seven major hardware components of a computer and in part 2 I talked about software basics. In upcoming posts ...more »

» by Randy Knowles July 8, 2012 at 9:19 pm » Comments (5)

Hello everyone, Having a nice business logo is quite important. Professionally designed business logos can cost you up to $1,000.00 or more. I don't have that kind of money and even ...more »

» by Randy Knowles June 28, 2012 at 9:34 pm » Comments (13)

  Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you know why I still hang on to my PS/2 mice and keyboards (especially the keyboard). Many of my clients upgrade their PS/2 mouse and keyboard. ...more »

» by Randy Knowles June 14, 2012 at 10:43 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, A while back I upgraded my old laptop hard drive. My laptop is the Toshiba Satellite L355-S7812 which originally came with a very small & slow 200GB, 4200RPM SATA ...more »

» by Randy Knowles June 5, 2012 at 10:15 pm » Comments (1)

  Hello everyone, Another interesting fix: The other day a client called me and told me that his computer was shutting down every time that he tried to play his Hoyle Card Games ...more »

» by Randy Knowles May 24, 2012 at 9:32 pm » Comments (6)

  Hello everyone, Wow, this was somewhat of an unusual fix! A client called me up and told me that she no longer wanted her eMachines T5048 desktop. She said that she couldn't ...more »

» by Randy Knowles May 12, 2012 at 7:49 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Many of my computer repair jobs involve the hard drive in one way or another. Lately I've been seeing about three hard drive failures per week. In a previous ...more »

» by Randy Knowles May 5, 2012 at 12:04 pm » Comments (2)

Hello everyone, I got a computer from a client yesterday and when I started to repair it, I couldn't access hardly any of the tools in Control Panel (Windows XP). I ...more »

» by Randy Knowles April 8, 2012 at 3:22 pm » Comments (9)

  Hello everyone, In the past year and a half or so I’ve repaired over 350 computers. In this series I’m describing the very repair tools that I use daily. If you ...more »