Prevent a Hard Drive Crash by Using These SMART Utilities
How to Prevent a Hard Drive Crash Hard drive failures equal downtime and data loss. For businesses, this ultimately leads to loss of revenue. By using a SMART utility though, it is possible to prevent a catastrophic failure by giving you enough time to take action as soon as a problem is detected. In this…
How to Recover Data from a Crashed Hard Drive (Any Hard Drive)
The complete guide to hard drive recovery. Successful hard drive recovery is important to everyone, because you have important and potentially irreplaceable data and files. Whether the data has been lost due to a hard disk drive crash, or the computer has stopped working for some other reason, this article shows you how to safely…
How to Easily Migrate Data From One Windows User Account to Another
How to Migrate Data From One Windows User Account Manually migrating a user over from an old profile to a new one can be a huge pain. Not only do you have to track down all their old data and copy it to their new profile, you also have to reconfigure all of their programs…
The Ultimate Mac Repair Quick Reference Guide
All in One Mac Computer Repair Guide! More and more companies are buying Macs. As a tech even if you aren’t a fan of the platform, knowing how to support them can give you an edge in the marketplace. My IT consulting business landed several clients because of our ability to support Macs. Sometimes the…
How to Add the Start Menu Back to Windows 8
With Windows 8 it’s good to think about implications for your users or clients. Under the hood, Windows 8 is a solid OS but from a usability standpoint, some users are going to be frustrated. One of the biggest frustrations that they may experience is the lack of a Start Menu and the constant switching…
Free Remote Desktop Support Tool That’s Quick and Easy to Use
There are lots of remote support tools out there but most require you to either have an account or install something on the end-user’s machine in order to gain access. This is fine in some cases but can be a burden if you need to quickly and easily provide remote support to someone. I would…
Where to Get System Recovery Discs for All Major PC Manufacturers
Get System Recovery Discs for All Major PC Manufacturers Most people seem to lose, throw away, or never create their recovery CDs when they get a new computer. So when Windows crashes, it can be very frustrating trying to track down a replacement. This can be even more frustrating when the person needs the machine…
How to Compare your ISP’s DNS Servers with Others
I was recently faced with a situation where the response time of an ISP’s DNS servers on a network I was supporting seemed to be slower than they should have been. Fortunately, there is a great tool available that I was able to use to test these DNS servers against the response time of public…
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