– Computer Specs 2 Following on from last week, today we continue to discuss why a computer appears to slow down over time and how we can reduce or ‘manage’ this slow down. As we have already mentioned, a computers’ brain (the CPU) does not slow down with age, but rather the software it is […]
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– Computer Specs Today we are going with an age-old pet topic of mine regarding computer specs and hence computer performance. Over the years we have seen many changes in computer hardware come and go. We have seen CD Rom’s, DVD Rom’s and more recently Blue Ray disks come and largely go again. We have […]
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– Microsoft Edge This article is the 2nd last that I will write for the printed version of The Morning Bulletin. If you have not already subscribed to their online edition, I would highly recommend that you do so now. Alternatively, if you do not currently have a computer and I know there are several of […]
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– General Business What happens at the shop in a week? Five and a half days can disappear in what seems to be the blink of an eye when you are flat out – and we are flat out at present. This is a rather disappointing measure of time considering that we are lucky to […]
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Recipe for Success Barney and Andie want to thank everyone for the lovely comments following last weeks’ article. Due to their newfound popularity they have already put in for a pay rise and are strutting with an extra skip in their step – what wags! The topic for this week, however, is much more boring! […]
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–Security 2 Following on from last weeks’ article about Internet security, this week we look at both what you can do to stay safe and what we can do to help keep you safe. I say this with the emphasis on the end user as taken to the nth degree – if you were to […]
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–Internet Security So did anything go drastically wrong this morning? Hopefully not, but let us consider one scenario that could have happened. You woke up and drove to the local newsagency to get the paper and some milk and went to pay via a card – it declined. Without any cash in your wallet you […]
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–Backup Final I wrote an article last week without realising exactly how many customers we had with Avast anti-virus; however it has been great to catch up again with our more regular customers and it surely keeps my techs on their toes! For regular readers looking for a conclusion to the backup article that I […]
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–What is a backup 2 Today we will try to return to completing our backup article from 2 weeks ago, however there is one important point that needs to be covered first. There are many anti-virus products that are on the market that all offer to help keep you safe from viruses or malware or […]
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–Win 7 Upgrade Profiteering Last week I wrote about backup systems and was to complete that article here today. Unfortunately we need to interrupt that series to talk about a more urgent topic – profiteering from the demise of Windows 7 support. Regular readers will already know that Microsoft finally dropped further support for its […]
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