At Kenilworth in the morning to sort out an adsl wireless router , and help a little with google web page search stuff with @suecablephoto www.suecablephotography.co.uk . Then the afternoon in Henley in Arden first setting up an Apple Mac with a virtual Windows using VMware Fusion happy to say that’s easier to do since…
Today started in Kenilworth to clean up an old desktop pc that was not booting, and help setup a new laptop. Followed by setting up Windows networks shares for a firm of designers in Leamington Spa it seems no one likes file permissions.
We went to Whitnash near Leamington Spa on Tuesday the 21st of Feburary for a computer repair, to find a Trojan virus that was designed look like a police fine to scare users in to paying for a fake fine, Pretty easy to remove it took about an hour with updating the antivirus to a newer…
This Morning we have a dead Hewlett Packard laptop with course work for university required for the following week. It appears that the main board on this HP Laptop has died and the cost and time scale for repair would be to much and to long. so we have removed the drive and transfered the…
Out at Whitnash today and it would appear that Sky are actually sending out letters warning about spam to there customers, But unfortunately they are basing the information on the reported ip address which changes if the user has unplugged the power to the router, as it happens on this computer the customer has unplugged…
This Morning we are at Leamington performing a check up on a couple of computers one desktop and one laptop. The desktop is pretty good just needed an update to the antivirus program and the HP printer scanner software loading to correct a scanner issue. The laptop has been very lucky i guess not used…
This afternoon we are at The Cambrige Villa Hotel in Warwick . We have a Dell dimension PC to repair with no screen output after removing the video and memory boards and giving them a clean we have a working machine again.
2nd job of the day is in the working units at The Mill on Mill Lane, Little Shrewley near Hatton here we have a HP Laserjet wireless Laserjet to install and make work correctly over the wireless network with an Apple Macbook Pro also to add to the fun it is using Sage accountant inside…
This morning i have a computer in Warwick with no power getting to the machine. After checking the fuses (by the way its almost never the fuses or the power switch) and the mains , We put a new power supply unit in to the machine and tested it , This was all that was…
This morning we are back at Blunts Green between Henley in Arden and Tanworth working for Warwickshire Trailers. We setup and tested an epson cheque printer to work with Intuit Quickbooks Pro via USB the hard part with this is to get the software to line up the cheques properly, that way all you need to…
Phew last job of the day we are now in Lillington Between Leamington Spa and Cubbington . We are here to setup a new router on an aol broadband system, The old router is a BT one that looks like its been used for 6 years or more one of the original ones aol provided when it…
For the 3rd job of the day we are at Milverton in Leamington Spa for this one we had a Compaq PC with powerlights but no screen for this one we just needed to clean the contacts on the video and memory cards then reseat the processor.
2nd job of the day back in to warwick to setup an ipad and several laptop computers on a BT Wireless router all working with a wireless HP printer
This morning we are at Blunts Green between Henley in Arden and Tanworth working for Warwickshire Trailers. Today we are giving the computer’s here a service to make sure running ok.
This Afternoon im at Aztec Design on Aragon drive just off of the Mtyon Road in Warwick it seems the ADSL Router we fitted here with an Bridged access point system to cover the house has an odd fault, We discovered that it looses the settings upon power failure and at other intermittant times. this…
Working for PL Tooling today at Honiley reconfiguring there Brother Multifunction Network Printer so that the scanner performs in the way that the customer Expects .
Last job of the day is at Barford the customer has had trouble connecting to the internet, its a BT Home Hub router so we reset and it’s all back up and working, going to keep an eye on this one if it happens again i guess the router is over heating and needs replacing.
The next job is also in Kenilworth is to retrieve data from a broken laptop (To Expensive to repair as most likley needs a replacement Motherboard) and transfer to a new laptop all data recovered and a very happy customer.
First job Today is at Kenilworth Cleaning up a Hewlett Packard PC removing data and games and Setting up an email account. on this one as there was no data to keep we went straight to the emergency recovery partition and wiped the machine it was running very slow before the wipe after running like…
In Leamington Spa this morning to fix a broken Hewlett Packard multifunction printer the scanner is not working correctly so we downloaded the latest driver from HP and installed this fixed that issue and a few other tweaks to keep the machine running nicely.
This morning we are in North Leamington to put in place a backup system for a basic external USB harddrive for this we are using the free download from microsoft called synctoy, The reason im using this here is that it is pretty easy to use and does not take to long because it only copies updated…
This afternoon i am on Grange Gardens in Wellesbourne to see a computer that is giving a blue screen of death and rebooting. To be honest the machine is fairly aged but the data is important so we booted in to recovery console and attempted to read the drive this resulted in the “Drive can…
My First Job Today is in Warwick giving a HP Computer a check up, updated the antivirus and removed a few unneeded Programs.
This afternoon we are at Wolston in Warwickshire working for Dental Chrome Systems of Coventry. We are here to repair a laptop computer with a “Profile Error” on boot up this machine is running Microsoft Vista and had just been running some updates the night before the error had occurred. We ran system restore and…
Good Morning, Today we are starting on a Desktop PC at Warwickgates. This PC was dead with no power so first of all we tried a new Power Supply Unit which resulted in no change so at this point we changed tactic and removed the video card and memory boards gave them a clean and…
In warwick today my only job is to reset the settings on a Belkin Router, then make a desktop PC work with it the first problem is its running Windows XP and its existing Wireless Card does not cope with WPA security, so we disabled the original Wireless Card and added a new Wireless USB…
My Second job for today is in Kenilworth the issue is that the router shows a link to the exchange but unable to connect, on all my previous troubles of this kind it has been the password Corrupted at the Internet Service Provider, on this one how ever it is the router that was at…
This Morning we are at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire working for terry-green trouble shooting a bridged wireless access point system. fault found and system left in good working order. We think the BT engineer must have been powering on and off the Netgear WN802T Access Points to quickly.
Next we are working on Hill Rise in Cubbington for a customer setting up a HP Wireless Multifunction Printer Scanner, all tested and working Wireless via 2 computers.
Next today we are in Kenilworth to fix a Netgear ADSL Router Problem the router appears to be working fine but the details for the admin are missing so we reset the Router to defaults and put the original settings back in taking care to write the details in to a safe area should we need…
First job This morning we are in Warwick helping to tutor a customer in selling items via Amazon market
This afternoon we are working for Jacwood Estates in Leamington Spa to setup a new Sony Laptop and transfer the existing data from their older laptop.
This morning we are at Leamington Spa and have a Dell Desktop PC with a registry error on boot up, This appears to have been caused by a McAfee internet security upgrade going wrong, on this one we had to restore the system to an earlier date, run the windows updates untill all up to date…
Good morning, We are with a customer in Kenilworth to repair a laptop with a code 19 error on thier CDRW drive.
This Morning we are in North Leamington installing a Wireless Bridge system of Access Points, The main objective of this is to share the Buildings Internet connection on the first floor with a room in the cellar(mainly to be used with a building wide Sonos music system), We managed to accomplish this using only 2…
This morning we are working for Warwick Thimbles at Leamington Spa helping to maintain the customers web site www.warwickthimbles.com
This Morning we are working for Eastgate Engravers in Warwick, We are here to update the customers website catolgue infromation and perform checks on the Dell computer for malware.
This afternoon we are in Kenilworth, Warwickshire working for CLM Training, We are here to repair a laptop computer that is running slow and reload the audio drivers.
Today we are in Milverton, Royal Leamington Spa to Clean up a Laptop Computer, On this Computer the machine was running Slow. To repair this computer we edited the registry and ran a malwarebytes scan.
Today we are in Wellesbourne to perform maintenance on a Dell desktop computer.
