Like many of our clients, you may have heard about a couple of security vulnerabilities going by the names of Meltdown and Spectre. These design flaws leave the vast majority of computer processors in use today vulnerable to outside access to the operating system’s private kernel memory area. Access to the kernel means hackers could […]
You’ve probably heard by now about the huge security blunder by Intel and other computer processor manufacturers referred to as “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. After the information hit the news on January 4th, 2018, the media and the technology world has been in a bit of an uproar about it and scrambling to implement a resolution […]
Certainly one of the most common questions we hear is, “Why is my computer so slow?” While the answer is almost impossible to affirm without investigation, there are some things that will slow every computer down over time, and some things you can do about it. This is the second installment in this series. Excessive […]
Certainly one of the most common questions we hear is, “Why is my computer so slow?” While the answer is almost impossible to affirm without investigation, there are some things that will slow every computer down over time, and some things you can do about it. Hardware Failure I’ll start off the series with hardware […]
We have been flooded with frustrated computer users over the past couple of weeks because their computer’s were upgraded to Windows 10 without their permission. At first we thought this had to be user error; maybe they clicked on the “Windows 10 nagware icon” and clicked OK by accident. However, we quickly learned that Microsoft […]
Why is Windows 10 FREE? We get this question all the time since Microsoft released their “nagware” update that puts a little icon next to the clock, that pops up often and tries to get users to upgrade to Windows 10. While we have had a handful of customers that upgraded to Windows 10 without […]
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