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This is a comprehensive review of the Brother DCP2640DW printer. We dive deep into everything you need to know about how to choose a printer. Is the DCP2640DW the best home office printer or best small business printer? We cover printer specs, WiFi capabilities, PPM speeds, resolution, paper tray, document Read more…
If you are a Microsoft partner you will probably have become aware that in January the Microsoft Action Pack that has been around for the better part of two decades is going away. There are several options but for most small partners the replacement is called the Partner Launch Benefits Read more…
Last week we had a customer with a Proxmox hyper-converged cluster to run their virtual machines who had notable performance problems. If you are not familiar with Proxmox just think of it as a free version of VMware, or Hyper-V with SCCM VM Manager. The fundamental issue was that even Read more…
URTech.ca is dedicated to providing information on computer technology but usually focuses on Microsoft and Android products. However, consumer technology like televisions and smart speakers have become wildly popular and so from time to time we will include content like this explanation of some of the technology used in Hisense Read more…
Explore the performance of the Maiwo USB Thunderbolt 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Enclosure Kit, featuring a 40Gbps Type-C PCIe SSD adapter for ultra-fast data transfer. We do this with a Silicon Power UD90 4TB SSD. The thunderbolt kit is from Indmem and is connected to our new Dell Latitude 5450 Read more…
At Up & Running we spend 95% of our time in the corporate space but periodically a client has us deal with retail products and yesterday was one of those days. The client needed to purchase a dozens of printers for work from home staff and wanted to know the Read more…
It is not uncommon for users and even newbie techs to think that files are on your computers’ hard drive are being processed directly by the CPU, but they are not. The CPU cannot work on files from hard drive, because it is far too slow. To manipulate files, the Read more…
We have been receiving a lot of questions about the new Intel core Ultra Series CPU’s. In response, we have created several articles explaining what makes the Core Ultra different and also in our review of the Dell latitude 5450 laptop. However we think it’s probably useful to have a Read more…
If you’ve purchased a Dell Latitude 5450 it probably didn’t come with enough memory or a large enough SSD drive. In this easy to understand Dell latitude 5450 disassembly tutorial, We explain all of the parts and how to replace them, including the battery, the Wi-fi card, the Wan, the Read more…
We had just completed an article on what the Ultra means in Intel Core Ultra, when one of our clients asked which CPU’s she should be buying now. Here was our response: Given these two facts I wouldn’t consider purchasing a computer that was not running in Intel Core Ultra Read more…
If you’ve been following the stock market or the chip industry in any way you will know that Intel started falling behind competitors in the early 2010’s. Companies like TSMC are now a generation ahead of Intel in manufacturing, while AMD and ARM (which sell their designs to thousands of Read more…
If you see this error and you are trying to use the Windows Netflix app perhaps on Windows 10 or Windows 11 it likely means that you are using the base STANDARD WITH ADS Netflix plan. Whoops, something went wrong Streaming ErrorTo watch on this device, change your plan at Read more…
If you have tried to download FileZilla in recent years you might have noticed that it has some serious problems. Most notably, when downloading FileZilla using Microsoft Edge browser you will see if is actually downloading a file named FileZilla_3xxxx_win64_sponsored-setup.exe and that it errors out with COULDN’T DOWNLOAD – VIRUS Read more…
If you have a cyberpower 625 VA 650V 850 VA or 1200 VA UPS and it is stopped working or is beeping, you probably just need to change the battery. This is very easy to do and it is very inexpensive. Many people will simply decide to throw wealth their Read more…
In our case we needed to upgrade an existing MDOT to NVME SSD from two terabytes to four terabytes and didn’t want to lose or damage our windows installation. We really did not want to reinstall everything from scratch. So we simply downloaded diskgenius for free and ran through the Read more…
Welcome to our comprehensive review of the Fanxiang S880 SSD. In this video, we will cover everything you need to know about this solid-state drive. Firstly, we delve into the specifications of the Fanxiang S880. This SSD comes in a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor and interfaces using a PCI-Express Read more…