by Shane Grantham | Oct 6, 2025
I new computer client found me last month by reviewing my Google maps listing. On my first visit a laptop and a desktop computer needed various things done. When I was done with these tasks, the business owner asked if I worked on security systems. I said not...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 4, 2025
All operating systems need updated for different reasons like security, stability and functionality. Microsoft’s approach in Windows 10 was forcing the updates on users and sometimes rebooting the computer while it was in use. Windows 11 seems to have...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 10, 2025
The files you create on your computers need to be backed up to another device in case something bad happens to your storage device. This could be theft, fire, hardware failure or other things. Ransomware is another disaster that may damage your files. Cloud...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 9, 2025
I was given an old Apple Macbook laptop which had a lost password and locked account. It was going to be used for my education on Apple laptops so my Apple laptop wouldn’t get ruined when I tested things on it. My thought was to open the case and disconnect...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 28, 2025
Some servers and connectivity devices have default accounts and usernames. This would be “admin”, “administrator” or “user”. Hackers and people in the know are aware of these and may use methods to acquire the passwords for them. To...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 22, 2025
The fortwayne.com Readers’ choice Awards are happening again. My company is under the Shopping-Computer Repair Store category. It’s under my company name of Shane Grantham Consulting. Anyone can vote daily for your favorites June 21-29. I’ve...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 17, 2025
Email used to be useful. Now it’s annoying. It was used for checking on clients and communicating with them. Now more spam hits my many email boxes than ever before. Most are about getting business loans and improving my web sites. The rest are various other...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 15, 2025
For the past five years my company, Shane Grantham comsulting, has been nominated for a Fort Wayne Readers Choice award. The category is Computer Repair Store. I’m not a store but I do computer repair. It’s under the Shopping category. They should have...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 8, 2025
I take it for granted that Linux computers can read Microsoft Windows file systems on hard drives. It doesn’t work the other way in most cases. Using Linux to read the NTFS file system saved a client’s data last month when their Windows laptop had a...
by Shane Grantham | May 20, 2025
My Lenovo laptop has been with me maybe two years. It came with Windows 11 and that’s why I bought it. I use it to learn Windows 11. Additionally, my previous Windows business laptop was very old and slow. I still have it for Quickbooks and it gets used just...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 7, 2025
Last month a new business called me reporting their email account couldn’t send messages for the last two weeks. They can receive messages during this entire time. I arrived on-site and began looking through the email account settings and really couldn’t...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 25, 2025
Today I delivered a Dell Windows 11 laptop to a customer at their location. They were using it for a financial analysis audit. The laptop lid was closed when they went to lunch and when they came back the problem started. It said Windows was low on the battery and...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 7, 2025
Not long ago I was using one of my Linux computers and noticed the video player was frozen or locked up. Instead of closing the video player from it’s interface, I used a different approach. The System Monitor program was opened so I could see the running...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 5, 2025
Recently, my main Linux computer was getting slow and I couldn’t figure out why. The startup processes were examined and nothing out of the ordinary was discovered. Next the disk space was viewed and the hard drive was almost full! Nothing came to mind that...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 4, 2025
I read computer books to stay current with my fast-paced industry. Windows 11 is the latest OS available to the world and I’m using it on one of my business computers. this book was a general information book about features and I learned some interested...
