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10:35 PM
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In a previous blog, I talked about how to determine if your Windows hard drive was failing.
Click here to read previous blog:
http://hthcatlanta.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-tell-if-your-windows-laptop-disk.html
Active@ Hard Drive Monitor uses SMART to determine the health of your hard drive.
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or S.M.A.R.T., is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, and assist in the anticipation of failures.
Click here to download the software:
http://www.ntfs.com/disk-monitor.htm
This alert may give you enough warning to back up your system one last time before your start...
10:26 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Eventually, your hard drive will fail. Hard drives are expected to last between 3 to 5 years before they eventually fail.
How do you know when your time is up with a hard drive?
Your computer starts to slow down. (but a slow computer can be caused by other things besides a failing hard drive.)
Go to Computer and select your C Drive. Right mouse click and select Properties. Select the Tools tab and then select Error-Check. Make sure the check box for Repair is selected.Finally, when given the option, select Schedule. The next time you boot your computer,the error scan program will scan your hard drive and fix any problems it discovers. When the scan is complete, your computer will boot normally...
7:53 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Here are two Blackberry Applications that can lower your anxiety over losing your Blackberry:
Blackberry Protect
BlackBerry Protect is a free application designed to help find your lost BlackBerry smartphone, and keep the information on it secure. It can also offer peace of mind for small businesses and families, with the ability to protect multiple smartphones.
Your contacts, text messages, calendar and bookmarks can be backed up wirelessly. It’s done automatically, and as often as you choose (daily, weekly or monthly).
You’ve lost your smartphone. Why wonder who has access to your information? Simply log in to the BlackBerry Protect website and lock your device. Pretty sure you’re...
4:42 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
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3:42 PM
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If you have unplugged and and then plugged your TiVo back in, but the familiar cartoon-like TiVo character is not dancing across your TV screen and you cannot hear the TiVo background music, the hard drive has probably crashed.
Your TiVo is a desktop computer that uses your TV as a monitor. The Operating System and all your programs are stored on a hard drive.
If the hard drive on your desktop computer crashes, you would replace the hard drive and re-load all the software that came with the computer and that you bought in the first place.
If your TiVo hard drive crashes, all your previously stored programs that had been recorded are gone with the crashed hard drive along with all your recording...
3:19 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
In a previous blog, I talked about how to determine if your Apple hard drive was failing.
Click here to read previous blog:
http://hthcatlanta.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-tell-if-your-apple-laptop-disk.html
SmartReporter will read your S.M.A.R.T. status every 15 minutes and alert you to a hard drive that is starting to fail. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Here is the link to the software:
http://download.cnet.com/SMARTReporter/3000-2086_4-49263.html
This alert may give you enough warning to back up your system one last time before your start the process of replacing your hard drive and re-loading your softwar...
9:58 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
July 2011 News From High Tech House Calls
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9:31 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Here is a link to my July eNewsletter.
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/News-from-High-Tech-House-Calls.html?soid=1101353862685&aid=7CBT8Bnc...
8:29 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
- - Upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 Lion for Your Apple Computer? - Lion is the newest release of the Mac OS http://ow.ly/1dK...
8:25 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
- Upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 Lion for Your Apple Computer? - Lion is the newest release of the Mac OS 10 http://ow.ly/1dJ...
8:26 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 Lion for Your Apple Computer? - Lion is the newest release of the Mac OS 10.x Operating Sys... http://ow.ly/1dI...
4:20 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Lion is the newest release of the Mac OS 10.x Operating System for laptops and workstations.
Here is a link that describes what is contained in the release: http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/all.html
Due to be released in July 2011, Lion will only be available via the Application Store Application that is installed on your computer instead of the normal DVD you would purchase online or from a store. The Application Store concept downloads software as iTunes downloads music.
If you bought your computer after June 6, 2011, the upgrade to Lion may be free. Click on this link to see if you qualify: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
It not unusual that application software you...
