Do you remember bringing your new computer home from the store? It was shiny, sleek and oh- so fast! But now? Well, the years haven’t been so kind to it, have they? It’s slow, sluggish and sometimes you want to throw it out the window. So, what happened? Why did you go from Hare to Tortoise?
Let’s look at some of the reasons your computer might have slowed down over time. [Read more…]
3 New Year’s Tech Resolutions You Should Actually KeepIf your typical New Year’s resolutions lasted about 30 seconds, you’re not alone. Pledges to eat better, start running and learn how to juggle can be rebooted again next year easy enough.
This year, we challenge you to think about your tech health with some resolutions you’ll want to keep.
A malware infection on your computer is never fun. Lost time, repair costs, data loss, and frustration can all result from a single piece of malware or a virus on your computer. Y-Not Tech Services wants to help you avoid this problem with four tips to keep malware and viruses off your system. [Read more…]
If you’re looking for computer help, you’ve come to the right place. Y-Not Tech Services can help you with a wide variety of computer and technology problems. Whether your computer is slow, won’t boot up, full of malware or other issues we can get you back up and running.
Story Time!
This week I had a new client bring me their PC because they couldn’t access their Tax data in the Genutax software. They had five years stored in there and needed to access it to do their taxes. Talking to the client I found out that earlier in the year they had an older computer that crashed while they were working on their taxes. [Read more…]
Data Breaches are becoming more and more commonplace. Each day we trust our personal information with businesses and corporations with the expectation that they will guard and protect it, but that doesn’t always happen. Y-Not Tech Services wants to help you if your data has been compromised.
Two weeks ago we talked about how to spot and avoid Tech Support Scams, but what if you’ve already been caught up in a scam? First, it’s important to realize that it isn’t your fault. The people running these scams are professionals and you are not alone in falling for it. Each year, according to Microsoft, about 3.3 million people are caught in these scams and the scammers take in up to 1.5 billion dollars. Now that we know there are a lot of people being hit by this, let’s look at what we can do if you’ve been hit. Here are seven things you need to do to recover from a Tech Support Scam.
“Your Antivirus needs to update.” “Your computer hasn’t been scanned in 27 days.” “Virus definitions on your system are out of date.” “We found 3 infections on your system – What would you like to do?”
If you have seen a message like any of the above and were confused by it, don’t worry – you are not alone. Many of the computers I look at for clients don’t have sufficient virus protection. I find that some of my clients purchase and install antivirus, but don’t know how to configure it so it ends up outdated and ineffective. [Read more…]
Tech Support Scams are becoming a real problem. Each week I hear of people paying anywhere from $200-$800+ for tech support and not getting anything from it. Today I’ll expose the ways tech support scammers trick their victims so that you can avoid being caught. Here are the six best ways to spot a Tech Support Scam.
I recently got a new printer for Y-Not Headquarters and I thought I’d talk a little bit about the factors I looked at when I chose to replace it. I’ll also talk about why I chose the printer I did.
In this case, I didn’t need a new printer. The one I had was working fine, however, I was replacing the ink at an alarming rate. The printer I had was not one I would ever choose to use for a business (or home for that matter…), but it was given to me by a client that couldn’t get it to work and chose to just replace it instead of trying to get it to work. He nearly forced me to take it, and since I didn’t want to be rude I obliged. When I got it back to headquarters and tried it out, I found that it worked just fine. I let my client know, but he didn’t want it back, so I started printing out Flyers to promote my business. I printed about 50 before needing to replace the ink. [Read more…]
