Been a while
Well it's been over a month since our last post, as we have been very busy, but have still managed to find time to post on
twitter. Well lots been going on.
Laptop RepairsWe have been doing lots of laptop repairs including screen replacements, and replacement DC Jacks. We have also been told by our screen supplier that the prices will be rising, and they are already on the way up, an 8.9" screen we did recently had increased by over £15!
Data RecoveriesAlso doing a lot of data recoveries, both physical, and logical. It is always better to have a copy of your data, than relying on it being recoverable. It might just no be recoverable.
Business Support ContractsThis has been growing rapidly, with a whole lot of new business support customers.
Coming SoonMicrosoft will be launching Windows 7 on us next week (22/10/09) We have been running it on some of our desktops for a month for so now. It was a little bit difficult to begin with, as we had issues with some of the drivers, but the platform has been stable for about 3 weeks now.
Labels: business, data backup, data recovery, replacement laptop screen, windows 7
More Busy Days
Site Survey Completed, start work at new customers site on Friday, get the issues resolved. And
ahve another HAPPY Customer.
Also Completed the Logical Data Recovery last night, recovered the 60
Gb of data that had been deleted. More intriguing is why this happened in the first place. The customer was cleaning up the hard drive using the windows tools. However the laptop had, had windows reinstalled by another Computer repair provider in Plymouth. Now instead of carrying out a windows repair they had reinstalled windows, and had left all of the users data in the old folder. Windows believing the 'Windows.old' folder was surplus to requirements just deleted it.
Although we can't name the company in question we probably get at least 2-4 machines in every month after they have had their hands on it, and caused a whole lot of issues.
Essentially another site survey to complete today, as we carry out a
pre-installation checks for a customer who is getting a new Line of Business App installed in the next month or so. And some more pick ups.
Will try and get the last couple of pages uploaded for our web hosting customer. Kind of chuffed at last after many years of trying have managed to blog in consecutive days.
Friday Morning is looking busy, but hopefully we should complete this weeks work by early afternoon, and then going to try and take some time off during the long weekend.
May try on Sunday to rebuild our on line shop.!! Keep you posted here.
Labels: bad it companies, business, data recovery, new shop, plymouth, web site
Busy couple of weeks
It's been a few busy couple of weeks.
Been doing data recovery, System repairs, Virus removals, and busy talking to a few businesses about taking out a monitoring and support contract.
The down side has been that PC World are continuing to tell people we are bust and gone. This leaves me with no option but to speak to our solicitor tomorrow, and try and get something sorted to
prevent this
immediately.
Any other IT providers near a PC World store need to keep an eye out as I believe this may be a way of them to try and get market segment from us smaller guys.
Labels: business, data recovery, it, monitoring, support, System repairs, Virus removals, wirtual pc, world
Busy, Busy, Busy
Busy with lots of things.Data Recovery - lot of these happening. A word of warning do not keep your data, on a removable drive alone. We have had lots of these coming in after being dropped, and 20% or so of these had no data to be recovered. If you are short of drive space, get a bigger or another hard drive put into your computer. Keep the external drive for either transporting the data or to back up your data.
If you have Windows Vista, then it so easy to backup this way.
Rise in Spam, and VirusesWe've seen a rapid rise in the amount of SPAM in recent weeks, mostly
phising emails, but also a rise in emails containing viruses. We have also seen a rise in infected Computers. Amazing how many people don't have a proper anti-virus. You really need to make sure your computers are protected.
Also make sure your Firewall is in place and active, block every port you don't need.
People are out there at the moment, and they are trying to make money by accessing peoples data.
Labels: data recovery, external, hard drvie, internal, vista
