For the next job today we are at a customers in Warwick to prepare for changing the internet service provider, the email account has been with Tiscali for a long time but now it seems Spam Filters are beginning to block the email servers IP address range so we have set the customer up with…
Good morning today we are starting in Warwick to setup a HP wireless printer on a replaced wireless router for a customer. This needed the HP wireless inkjet printer setting up to work with the BT router which required the printer to be attached via a USB cable to transfer the settings details (some of…
First job this Afternoon I am at Kenilworth in Warwickshire we are here to repair the customers Dell computer system this looked as though we required the network card replacing , The Dell computer also required us to attempt a repair on its outlook PST Files. UPDATE For this Dell computer repair it turned out…
This morning I am in Coventry at Matrix Lasers Setting up and New Computer on the existing network. Here we are transferring the Documents, Setting up Sage Accounts , installing a PCI parallel port card to run an Epson dot matrix printer , transferring emails and address book, generally attempting to make the new machine…
This afternoon we are in Kenilworth to attempt to recover a customers missing pictures from a laptop Computer. Update Unfortunately the customer had done a factory reset on this machine and it might have been possible to retrieve some of the photos using another machine and running a recovery program but it would have taken…
This afternoon we on Ferndale Drive at Kenilworth in Warwickshire, we are here to do some maintenance on an old Desktop Computer running Windows XP and a Netbook PC connected to a BT Infinity Wireless Router. On the Desktop Computer we updated the antivirus to a current Version , reinstalled the wireless Adaptor and checked…
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.
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 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…
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.
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…
First job This morning we are in Warwick helping to tutor a customer in selling items via Amazon market
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…
Today we are in Wellesbourne to perform maintenance on a Dell desktop computer.
For the first job this afternoon we are in Whitnash installing and testing memory on a Packard Bell iMedia J2489 Desktop Computer.
This morning we are repairing a dell 3000 Computer at Archery Road in Leamington Spa.
This morning we are at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire repairing a desktop computer that is running slow one issue that may occur here is that if the fan on the processor is pulling the air towards the heat-sink there will be a large deposit on it which will increase the heat and then the processor will…
This morning we are at Kineton in Warwickshire with McGurk Performance Cars . We are here to repair one of the computers in the office it has an odd fault with the wireless, So we removed the Netgear Wireless PCI Card and added a new Wireless USB adapter.
Good afternoon we are now in Halford, Warwickshire to update an Antivirus on a Toshiba Laptop computer and a few other tasks
Good Morning we are currently at Honiley in Warwickshire setting up and New Computer for a customer, This is consisting of data transfer from the old Desktop PC. Installing Software such as Sage Accounts and Payroll and Setting up network shares, Dymo Label Printer, Emails and Address Books Converted.
This afternoon we are with a customer in Leamington Spa to repair their computer.
Good Morning we are in Warwick today and our first job is to help speed up a computer that is running slowly, this is usually achieved by checking the registry and removing unneeded programs, The computer also had a Flash OCX error which was resolved by removing a corrupt screensaver.
For the second job today we are with a customer on the Woodloes in Warwick, We are here to repair a slow running computer as well as perform other maintenance on the machine  including cleaning up the registry and removing unneeded programs.
This morning we are at Stockton village near Southam in Warwickshire, We are looking at a customers broadband problems, For some reason the router had lost its ADSL log in information so we reentered and tested by emulating a power cut and this solved the ADSL broadband Problem.
Good morning today we are in Leamington Spa at Abacus Business Services to perform a repair on a computer, and various other computer maintenance including checking the Antivirus. The Second job is Also in Leamington Spa computer maintenance for a customer in Beverley Road this one required windows and driver updates.
This Morning we are at the Cambridge Villa Hotel in Warwick, We are here to perform some computer maintenance.
This morning we are at a customers in Kenilworth to repair a computer the fault with the computer is that it keeps loosing its time and date, This is most likley to be a CMOS Battery issue so we opened up the case and found it needed a CR2032 battery which was replaced and fixed…
This afternoon we are in Warwick working for Sliding Sash Supplies Ltd, We are here to repair a computer that is not not loading, We ran a recovery and was able to then read the drive. The drive how ever was quite old so we installed in to an IDE Adaptor and transferred to another PC.
Now we are in Warwick to remove a fake antivirus from a Laptop computer called My Security Shield, It is believed the customer may have click a link on an email and the only thing this software does is to try to take money from the customer for its use. We edited the registry and…
