http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd#tba2 Various situations involving a PC that could nolonger boot, have come across my desk over the past 12 years, sometimes due to boot viruses, sometimes due to other reasons that mess up the boot sector of the harddrive, and I have found myself coaching clients to find their OS…
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A Free New Year’s Tip: What Needs Updating to Reduce Risk of Infection for 2011
Happy New Year!!! Many people like to start the year with a list of “New Year’s Resolutions”. Your computer has its own wish list too, and while it tries to accomplish much of it on its own, it would benefit from a little TLC from you, its user. So how…
The New Wild Frontier. . .
It’s not so new really, but it seems new to many people who are discovering for the first time that they aren’t as safe online as they thought they were. PC World and other journalist magazines out there that chronicle what is happening in IT circles on and off the…
From horses to aircraft, a computertech’s life is a definite adventure!
FACT Computer Services Co got its start back in 2001, as a financial advisor in town by name of Harley Lockhart encouraged me to strike out on my own, initially servicing the financial industry in town with their computer maintenance needs. Since then, FACT has gone on to service a…
C is for Cookies
C is for Cookies, that’s good enough for me. C is for Cookies, are they really safe? Um, no! That’s not how that song goes! Of course cookies are safe! I bake them every Christmas! No one’s died eating my cookies yet! What are you talking about?! There is a…
The (File) Name Has It!
I have two friends named Mary. One lives in Canada, the other in the States. The one in Canada hates baseball but loves Lacrosse, the other can’t stand hockey but could live at the baseball diamond. But because they both have the same name, how am I to know who…
Three Strikes Your Out!
Baseball season is big business in the US. I don’t follow the game much, but I do know a little about it. There are two teams, an umpire, and one team plays the field while the other team goes up to bat. Three strikes and you’re out. The computer world…