Grab the bucket of sawdust…
Back in the day when I was in grade school, there was a janitor at our school with a keychain full of keys. You could hear him walking down the hallway, the mass of keys clanging away. There was something else that the janitor was known for. His bucket of sawdust.
If a student was, well, sick in class or the hallway, the janitor would arrive promptly with his bucket of sawdust. He would sprinkle it around the affected area and come back a short bit later to sweep the area clean. A very effective method.
We have our own bucket of sawdust here at Computer Troubleshooters. Tools that we use to fix up a system that is, well, sick. Below is a list of what we keep in our bucket.
ccleaner: Cleans temp. files, Windows Registry, Secure delete, etc.
jkdefrag: an open source, disk defrag utility.
malware bytes: One of the newest, and best, malware cleanup and prevention tools. Free to try, but a commercial product.
These 3 utilities form a core of our bucket. There are many more utilities we use, but on a daily basis, this is our sawdust.
Something fishy…
Of technology and....fish?
What do fish have to do with a technology blog? More than you may think….
The goal with this blog is to share and educate. Here is where I share my experiences helping people deal with technology. I own and operate a
Computer Troubleshooters franchise. I like to think of Computer Troubleshooters as the glue between people and technology.
Every day I see the real impact of technology on people and their businesses. Not the slick, glossy, packaged experiences you see on TV or on the Web. No, we deal with technology reality. The reality of a notebook computer that won’t boot, an iPhone that can’t get email, or a business with a crashed server and no backups. These aren’t the moments that make good ad copy.
When you boil it down, what we do is help you navigate these technology waters. We want to minimize stress and make technology closer to what you see in the ads. We can’t promise you’ll be dancing with your iPhone or declaring to the world you’re a PC or a Mac, but we can help make technology work for you, instead of the opposite.
So….what does all this have to do with fish? In creating this blog I was reminded of the ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi who stated:
Give a man a fish; feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; feed him for a lifetime
I hope in sharing with you my experiences with technology reality, you’ll gain enough skills to safely and comfortably cast your own lines into the technology waters…