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It is often promoted the VPN’s are the great saviour of privacy. However, most people really don’t understand what a VPN is doing. For home users, VPN’s (Virtual Private Network’s) are just private tunnels through the internet that let you APPEAR to be at in a different city. After you Read more…
What is S.M.A.R.T.? SMART is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and it is just a simple monitoring system built into your hard drive. The idea behind SMART is to predict drive failures so you can protect your data (i.e. copy it to something else) before it dies Read more…
If you are using Windows 10 you no longer need to download utilities to clean the garbage off your hard drive or to figure out what folders are using the most disk space. Windows 10 Storage Sense is the free integrated disk clean up utility from Microsoft that does the Read more…
UPDATED SEPT 2024: Previous title was “How to Setup and Troubleshoot Windows 10 Your Phone App” but the “Your Phone app” is now named “Phone Link App” If you have an Android cell phone, like my Samsung Galaxy S9, S10, S20FE you may want to be able to send / Read more…
We often work on old laptops to either recover data or upgrade them. This gets to a common question that we answer in the video below, does it make sense to replace the old spinning drive with a solid state drive and install a fresh Windows 10 to make the Read more…
If you have devices (DVD, Mouse, USB Port…) that are not functioning as you expect one common troubleshooting technique is to remove the device and driver from Windows then reboot and let Windows “Plug-and-Play” it back into existence. Hopefully, the default setting or updated / fresh driver that Windows finds Read more…
Microsoft does wants to keep its product clean and simple looking so during firmware updates they use a colored bar under the Surface logo to give the user a calm sense of what is happening. The problem is that even techs that work on these frequently are not sure what Read more…
If you screen does not turn on, you may be tempted to this the LCD is dead or a cable has been cut. However, usually the problem is with something on the motherboard and often you can fix it yourself. Below is a list of Dell flash codes that you Read more…
If you have recently clicked on a link to a download a file and found that it pops up a message asking you what program you want to use to open the file then we have the fix. Even though it looks the same to end users (i.e. you), there Read more…
If you want to backup files and folders in Windows 10, there is a free built in utility from Microsoft included names, Windows 10 Backup with File History. In the video below we explain how to set it up, how to change the advanced configuration and how to troubleshoot it. Read more…
In the video we take a brand new Dell Inspiron 7000 series (7506 specifically) two in one convertible laptop and unbox, then disassemble, setup and benchmark it. During the process we explain the cool features like the Intel Iris Xe video, second hard drive slot, battery details and much more Read more…
If you are considering a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series, this is the video for you. We ordered a few Inspiron 5502’s with 11th generation (i.e. current) Intel i5 CPU’s, 8GB of RAM and 256GB M.2 Solid State Drive. In this video we unbox, disassemble, setup and then benchmark one Read more…
If you have problems with your battery, it is quite common for the keyboard to be stuck to the display of a Microsoft Surface Book 1. This is because the mechanism to detach the keyboard from the screen requires power. Fortunately there is a simple way to manually force the Read more…
We are often asked about how small offices, home offices and even medium sized businesses can avoid the high cost of on-premise file servers, by sharing files and folders with Microsoft OneDrive. After all, it seems like nearly all small businesses run on Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive (aka Microsoft 365 Read more…
Microsoft Xbox Velocity Architecture is a new hardware and software platform to make the XBox Series X today and PC’s in the near future run dramatically faster using commodity components. There are four building blocks of Velocity Architecture which are easy to understand. Here is our video explanation of the Read more…
If you have seen the That Suite Money commercials, it seems too good to be true. Just sign up and get $250. Here are the two videos we produced based on this article: The style of the commercial reminds us of the old Canadian House Hippo campaign which tells Canadians Read more…