March 3rd, 2019 at 5:20 pm » Comments (0)

Feb. 2019 Third Party Patches Hello everyone, Here are your third party program updates (a couple from March thrown in!). Please patch your systems asap. Chrome 72.0 2 March 2019 Google has released Version 72.0.3626.121 of the ...more »

January 1st, 2019 at 5:26 pm » Comments (7)

Mid-2011 iMac Hello everyone, I have a wonderful 27" mid-2011 iMac. A few years ago I installed a new 1TB Hard Drive (spinning SATA). When I booted up the new install, the ...more »

December 30th, 2018 at 3:50 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, Hope everyone had a great Christmas and best wishes for a great 2019. Here are the latest December 2018 mostly third party program updates. Check your systems and apply ...more »

December 27th, 2018 at 5:13 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, Quite a few years ago I began to repair computers. My wife said that what I was doing was "learning to repair computers". But her words seemed to imply ...more »

July 29th, 2018 at 9:04 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, I got a call from a frustrated client the other day. Every time that he tried to open any Microsoft Office program he had to wait while Office went ...more »

July 27th, 2018 at 3:46 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, If your kitchen window screen has a hole in it then bugs are going to get into your house. You better "patch" the screen, right? If your computer programs ...more »

July 24th, 2018 at 8:25 pm » Comments (2)

Hello everyone, The other day I was doing some diagnostics on an older AMD dual core laptop. I was checking out the memory using MemTest 86 ( great little memory testing tool), ...more »

July 2nd, 2017 at 10:16 pm » Comments (7)

Hello everyone, The great majority of my customers live in a resort/retirement community here in central Tennessee. Since they are older, they don't like change just for change's sake. Most of ...more »

June 28th, 2017 at 8:35 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, This month there are patches from Adobe, Google, and Mozilla. There have been zero reports of actively attacked vulnerabilities. Update Flash first as it is a top target for ...more »

June 6th, 2017 at 10:22 pm » Comments (159)

Hello everyone, I have a wonderful mid-2011 iMac that I really like. Two days ago we had severe thunderstorms here in Tennessee and there were several power outages. The following day ...more »