As you may well be aware, we are being spied on while online. It’s no secret and I’m not a member of the tin foil hat society. It’s just a reality that’s public knowledge where companies such as those in the music industry have been charged with spying on those pirating their music and they’d …
First off, if you don’t know what it means, SSD stands for Solid State Drive. The biggest bottleneck in any computer these days is your hard drive. We have fast CPU’s, lots of RAM, and the other technical terms you might not understand are all increased. But hard drives still spin at a maximum 7,200 RPM …
NOTE: This is an old set of instruction from AVG. Now Avast bought out AVG so please see here for new instructions This article was written specifically for our clients that use AVG CloudCare managed virus protection which has a firewall built in. As of this article, we can not remotely managed your firewall settings, …
This kb article from Microsoft kb 2199226 shows exactly why it is important to save your important Outlook contacts in your address book properly rather than just rely on the false pretense that they are safe in the autocomplete forever. They are temporary, not permanent and if you read the kb article carefully you’ll see …
If you have upgraded to Windows 10 there’s something you might want to consider adjusting right away to avoid potential problems and reboots at inappropriate times. There are three settings all in the same place which you want to make as per the image below. Change the first option from “Automatic (Recommended)” to “Notify to …
I was chatting with family friends at a dinner the other night and this retired gentlemen was telling me how he stores all his photos on Google Photos and it’s unlimited. I know as a tech there there’s always fine print. So, I had to find out but I wasn’t going to start testing and confirming while …
Many people when purchasing just about anything, including items other than computers or electronics, are so focused on the price, that they don’t truly look at what they are getting for the price. Sometimes I hear “I could get a new computer for that price”. I say “what kind of computer would you get for that …
With the amount of SmartPhone use in today’s world, people are doing almost as much on their phones as they do on laptops and desktop computers. This includes email, web surfing as well as shopping and banking online. There are apps to even scan cheques with your smart phone and deposit into your bank account. …
AVG is pretty awesome, but why force the Zen on every install of AVG free edition? Many people just have a single computer to manage and don’t want Zen getting in the way as an extra program, no only to download and install but the shortcut that gets created on the desktop is Zen, which …
Most of you by now must have either experienced this if not heard someone who has, where you will get a call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft or your phone provider, etc. See my previous article: Calls-from-microsoft-about-computer-problems-phone-scam/ Now that consumers have gotten educated and know better (most of you at least), there is a new …