Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – How to open and convert an Outlook OST file to avoid data loss The OST format is a Microsoft file format for Exchange files. It contains Exchange mailbox data that can be used on the local system whether connected to Exchange or not. The idea is partly to allow access … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – How to turn a Windows computer into a Wi-Fi hotspot The ability to turn a Windows computer into a Wi-Fi hotspot is neat. If you use a 4G tablet or are traveling and have to pay per device, using a single machine as a hotspot for others to access the … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – How to repair and recover Word files While Dave’s Computers specializes in hard disk data recovery, our Hillsborough data recovery team can recover most files from most places. One of the most common requests we see is to recover a Microsoft Office file that has been corrupted is didn’t save … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – Top computer security tips for home users Of all the computer subjects we read about in the media, security is usually top of the agenda. For longer than I can remember, computer users have had to protect their networks and their computers from hacking, viruses and malware. So we were … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – Why do so few people and small businesses perform backups? Data recovery is a time consuming and often expensive business. Considering data loss is (mostly) avoidable, we here at Dave’s Computers are often left wondering why so many people don’t perform backups of their valuable data. We can understand individuals … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – Top network security tips for home users If you read yesterday’s post ‘Top computer security tips for home users’ you will already have an idea of how to protect your computer while connected to the internet. If you have a wireless or wired network in your home, you need to … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – How to change a PC power supply Today’s blog post centers around one of the most important yet underrated PC components, the power supply. It doesn’t grab the headlines like a processor or graphics card and doesn’t have big numbers like RAM or an SSD, yet no computer can survive … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – How to securely delete files from your hard drive As well as helping the good people of Hillsborough with their data recovery needs, we also advise on IT security. One of the things you quickly realize when dealing with computers is that data is rarely gone from a drive. More … Read more
Dave’s Computer Repair Blog – Why is a simple reboot the most effective computer repair? Ask any computer repair technician about any kind of computer issue and the first thing out of their mouth will be, ‘have you rebooted?’ While it may not be what you want to hear, there is a good reason why … Read more
Companies operating in the modern age have neither the time nor the energy to contend with paper forms. In addition to being inefficient, this method is also inaccurate and can open a company up to mistakes and errors. Because of this, many companies turn to automatic data capture (ADC), instead. Here’s what you need to … Read more