JonesPC

Ive been thinking about trying out that somewhat new blogging/website building platform called squarespace. If you listen to any of the popular tech podcast, you have probably heard the ads for the site. It sounds pretty good just from the ads. I recently visited and created a login for the free 2 week trial to [...]

This was a weird problem a friend of mine ran into with a easy solution. The solution was easy, but it was a solution that I wouldn’t think would have to be done. Let me explain…
My friend has a Dell laptop, cant remember which model, but its about a year old, its a 17 incher, [...]

I have to admit, I am scared to delete my email. Im not talking about just deleting individual email, or a spam item here and there. I’m talking about deleting my whole inbox and starting from scratch. I have several email addresses that I use for different things. Of coarse, I have the email address [...]

I don’t print a lot of things too often, mainly just directions from Google maps or a recipe or 2. I got married a few months back and one of the things me and my wife decided to do was print our wedding invitations ourselves. The printer I have is a HP all in one, [...]

In my house, in my computer room, I have a closet that contains several PC cases, old power supplies, sound cards, video cards, old motherboards, ram… My closet has become a graveyard for old computer parts. Like I have said from the start of this blog, I love working on, building, repairing PCs. With [...]

The other night, something happened that required me to do a little research. My wife has a really old PC. I keep saying Im going to upgrade it. right now it is super slow, even for a casual PC user. She finds a lot of times she has to use my Laptop or other peoples [...]

Last week I told the story about a friend that lost a lot of important data in a harddrive crash. Well, we kept at it and used some software to get back some of his important files. To be honest, I thought all was lost. First I’ll go over what was tried originally. To make [...]

Do you perform regular backups of your files?
Let me tell you a little story. Last week a friend called me and was asking quetions about his PC. One day he got the dreaded messages saying that his drive was corrupt. The files were unreadable, and it doesnt  boot to anything. Says the drive is bad [...]

Ive been building, upgrading and repairing PCs for about 15 years. I wouldnt say Im an expert, or know everything, but I am pretty familiar with a lot of PC technical issues. My knowledge and experience with PC’s have helped me see through some of the garbage that store salesman try to feed me and [...]

This blog… Actually both of my blogs have the "Do Follow" plugin installed. I know many of you know how this works but for those that dont, heres a brief explanation of the whole "No Follow" thing. The "No Follow" tag was created to help search engines know what to ignore when it crawls your [...]