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• Most people aren’t deep into the technical complexities of their systems. They’d rather keep working on what they usually do — and be productive, making money, rather than spending it — especially when times are hard, like now.
• How many times have you heard the dreaded phrase

“THE COMPUTER’S DOWN!!!”

• It drives everyone crazy. Here we are with these wonderful “electronic servants,” but sometimes they “go south for a vacation.” Then we have to call some “nerd” (maybe complete with a plastic pocket protector, a calculator hanging from the belt, and masking tape on the bridge of the glasses), and risk a heart attack from the cost of services. Sound familiar?
• Many such are specialists (e.g. CNEs, A+es, etc.) and charge accordingly. They’re the IT equivalent to the specialist in medicine.
• It’s exactly like like taking a kid to the doctor: You don’t know the jargon and paradigms built into the system, so can get over­whelmed by these, and feel like you’re at their mercy.
We’re the General Practitioner,
the “family doctor” for your PC.
• If you have to have a specialist, we’ll refer you to someone we know will give you excellent service for advanced matters.
• We have over twenty years of accumulated experience with various computer types, from a mainframe to our office system that’s been upgraded and used for 15 years — now mutated to a 3 GHz Pentium® IV, so we can use that ac­cu­mul­ated expertise to your benefit!

We’re not specialists; we’re proud generalists. As such, we can show you how to integrate your system hardware and software better to meet your small-business needs, likely significantly improving robustness and productivity.

Oftentimes simple training can return many times its cost via increased productivity.

Like you, we’re a small business trying to earn an honest living. Our aim is to serve YOU while so doing.

We’re quite familiar with network hardware aspects of Windows computers (including both Dial-up Net­wor­king and PPP — the first of which is what stand­alone users most often con­nect to the In­ter­net with, and also broad­band net­wor­king and NICs [net­work in­ter­face cards]), in­clu­ding

• installing cards and configuring them, such as with
• DIP switches & jumpers (for IRQ levels and DMA channels, for example,
  on older non-PCI boards), Windows’ Device Manager, etc.
• BIOS setup & optimization
• Windows® installation & care.
• Remedying malware infections (viruses, worms, spyware, etc. — system rescue)
• cabling & connections
• cleaning off dust & checking the cooling fans (filters, also)
• refurbishing keyboards (but they’re so cheap that it’s often more cost-effective to scrap it & buy a new one)
• cleaning mice (but: ditto)
• hardware (e.g., floppy drive & CD-ROM) jams
• monitor readjustment, calibration & problems evaluation (scan/sync/color, etc. — including flat-panel DVI- and CRT units)
• interface with external components (e.g., MIDI synthesizers)
• CPU and motherboard upgrades, S/DIMM/DDE memory upgrades, etc.
• hard drives: upgrades & troubleshooting, possible rescue of crashes.
• printers, modems, scanners, fax hardware

• Windows 3.x or, 9x/ME, 2K/XP, Vista & 7.
• registration of software & hardware with the system
• .INI file & Registry settings
• Preferences of installed programs
• speed/memory optimization (e.g., swap file)

• DOS to Windows
• Windows 3.1 to 9x/ME
• 9x/ME to 2K, XP, Vista, or 7 — and service packs.

For example, you may be perfectly satisfied with what you have now, but could it use some optimization or customization? Have a slower machine with older hardware (e.g., memory)? We] may be able to help you upgrade it and extend its useful life a year or longer, which can save you a lot!

• Often find yourself doing the same computing task over and over?
• Frustrated by operating-system limitations?
• Would you like to extend the capabilities of your system?
• Want to have inexpensive add-ons for it?

• Doing the same things over & over in Corel’s WordPerfect Office suite for Windows? We can probably create macros that’ll automate tasks so you spend less time typing and do more productive work, or show you how to re­duce commonly-used text formats to a style, so that you can edit the format of such by editing the style, dramatically improving productivity and flexibility ($30 [20 for non-profits & seniors]/hr., $10 minimum), plus fuel sur­charge.
• Another example: Clicking on a .TXT (text) file in Windows’ Explorer will normally open it with Note­pad. What if you want to choose among sev­er­al pro­grams you could edit it with? Simple! We can create a Win­dows script for you that prompts you for which pro­gram to use. We’ll create the file and give you clear step-​by-​step in­struc­tions to in­stall it and as­so­ci­ate the des­ired file type(s) with it, and you’ll then have in­creased flexi­bi­lity (same rate as pre­vi­ous para­graph).
• We can do on-line research in knowledgebases to find possible solutions to problems you’re having with your system or software (same rates as above).
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• FREE! Have a program that doesn’t support macros, but you still do the same thing over & over? Use the old Windows 3.1 Macro Recorder! It works just fine 90% of the time, and can be a real time saver. We can explain how you use it & its limitations, or recommend a fine modern replacement: Insight Software’s superb Macro Express.

• Clicking on the ORDER NOW icon will spawn your E-mail program, and generate a form in it you can use to order.
• Type what you want done after the “Instructions or query” line on the order form, and we’ll gen­er­al­ly respond the same day.