Why You Should Support Macs With Your IT Business

If you have an IT services business, would like to start one or get a computer technician job, I highly recommend offering Mac support.  Despite the fall of PC sales in recent years, Apple’s Mac computer sales have continued to remain strong.  As a result, Macs continue to show up in more home and business…

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What You Should Know About Becoming an IT Consultant

How to Start your own IT Consulting Business Wondering how to Start your own IT Consulting Business? Starting an IT consulting business can be a very rewarding experience.  You get to be your own boss, set your own schedule, build a profitable company and make money doing what you love. But even though this all…

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Don’t Start a Computer Repair Business

With the fall of PC prices and the rise of tablets, mobile devices and cloud services, a computer repair business is a dying business model.  Don’t start a computer repair business.

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How to Protect Your Clients’ Data and Make Money Doing it

As you may have seen by now, Cryptolocker has infected around 250,000 PCs so far and is still going strong.  If you aren’t familiar with Cryptolocker, it’s a business owner’s worst nightmare.  Once installed, Cryptolocker will encrypt files on the machine it is installed on as well as all network drives that machine is connected…

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How to Restore Deleted Files Even After Emptying the Recycle Bin

Recycle Bin Icon One of my favorite tech tools is called Restoration. It’s a stand-alone Windows based file recovery program. It allows you to restore deleted files even after they have been emptied from the recycle bin. Restoration requires no install and because of this, you can put it on your flash drive and take it with you wherever you go. In the following article I would like to show you how to use it.

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How to Use Hirens BootCD to Reset a Windows Password

Lost or Forgotten Password? Here’s how to reset it! Windows passwords are meant to keep unwanted users off your computer.  And because of this, Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to reset them when they are lost or forgotten.  In the following article I would like to walk you through using a tool to reset a…

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Prevent a Hard Drive Crash by Using These SMART Utilities

How to Prevent a Hard Drive Crash Hard drive failures equal downtime and data loss.  For businesses, this ultimately leads to loss of revenue.  By using a SMART utility though, it is possible to prevent a catastrophic failure by giving you enough time to take action as soon as a problem is detected.  In this…

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How to Recover Data from a Crashed Hard Drive (Any Hard Drive)

The complete guide to hard drive recovery.  Successful hard drive recovery is important to everyone, because you have important and potentially irreplaceable data and files.  Whether the data has been lost due to a hard disk drive crash, or the computer has stopped working for some other reason, this article shows you how to safely…

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