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Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of April 2019

May 17th, 2019 at 11:22 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Have you applied the April 2019 third party updates? If not here they are. Microsoft updates their Windows Operating System automatically but third party (non-Microsoft) updates may catch you ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of March 2019

April 19th, 2019 at 8:04 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Here are your March 2019 patches. I apologize for my lateness. So thankful for the saying "better late than never". If you have not updated your machine, now is ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of February 2019

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 »

How I Fixed: Mid-2011 iMac Fans Running At Full Speed

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 »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of December 2018

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 »

Learning Computer Repair By Doing It

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 »

How I Fixed: Microsoft Office Installs/Configures Before Opening

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 »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of July 2018

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 »

How I Fixed: Processor Cores Disabled

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 »

How I Fixed: Weak Wireless Connection

July 16th, 2018 at 8:44 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, A client called me today and told me that her wireless was not connecting to neither her laptop nor her TV upstairs. When I went to the house I ...more »