by Shane Grantham | Mar 3, 2026
A few days ago I wrote about finding two programs with the same name installed on one of my computers. I looked at the names again and it was obvious that they were Chrome remote extensions for two browsers: Brave and Chrome. If one of them is deleted, then one of...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 27, 2026
I don’t know how it happened but I found a picture of two instances of the same program on a Windows computer. It was probably my Windows 11 computer. It wasn’t done purposely but by accident, The program is Chrome Remote Desktop and it allows a...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2026
This week I’ve been reviewing my old laptops to see if they are still working and which are dead. One of them is a Dell Latitude D610 business model which originally came with Windows XP. It still runs well and it now has Linux Mint 18 on it. This OS is...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 24, 2026
If you’re having problems connecting to the internet or a local network resource like a printer than this article may help. This applies to hard-wired devices like desktop computers. Wireless devices such as laptops or tablets are exempt from this. There are a...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 19, 2026
Last month a long-time client contacted me for a computer check-up. When I started working on their computer I checked the operating system for available updates. It was then I realized this is a Microsoft Windows 10 computer! This OS is not getting security...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 16, 2025
My wife has been trying to activate our Peacock subscription which is included with our Xfinity account. She’s getting the message ,” Your Xfinity account is already linked to another Peacock account”. I started to help her yesterday and tried...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 12, 2025
The other day I went to a computer client’s business and found an opened desktop computer. The owner couldn’t get the computer to respond and was attempting to remove the hard drive. Unfortunately, when they pulled off the data cable too much force was...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 11, 2025
Not long ago I got contacted by a company for the first time. Their main personal computer wouldn’t power one any more. I found out someone was working on an electrical light and the circuit breaker tripped. It took down the running computer and ever since,...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 7, 2025
I have been having problems with printing on my main desktop computer for a few weeks. It happens to be a Linux Mint computer and not a Windows one. In my work, printing isn’t done very often so I just let it go if it fails. Today, I tried again to print a...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 30, 2025
My main news sources are the independent media like Gerald Cilente, David Knight and many others. David Knight discusses many topics and one is AI and it’s impact on the world. David talks about the huge amount of electricity the AI data centers consume which...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 28, 2025
My main office computer is a Linux Mint 21.1. The primary video player program is named Cinema and I’ve used it for many years. Lately, it fails to respond when I try to play a video. As far as I know it is the default video program for the computer. No error...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 27, 2025
Previously I wrote about my Chrome computer’s keyboard problem. The volume buttons don’t work as they once did. The other keys work fine and tonight I started looking at the Chrome OS settings. I opened the Bluetooth settings under the taskbar and...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 26, 2025
I got a new Android smartphone last summer and it’s been doing pretty well. The biggest thing I use it for is pictures and videos for my computer business and for my fitness job. Eventually, they are either trashed or moved to a computer server of mine. My...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 25, 2025
I have a chrome-based computer that has an external keyboard. When it was first set-up, the audio could be adjusted from the dedicated keys on the keyboard. There is a mute, up and down. I’m not sure when it happened, but now the keys do nothing. All the...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 23, 2025
Occasionally I will be at company and will see many computers in the building powered on and unattended ready to be accessed by anyone. Or maybe just one or two computers will be present. It doesn’t matter because it just takes one for a security violation. An...
