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David Marchat

20+ years of experience in computer support

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David Marchat speaks technology in a language we can all understand.



Is Your Laptop Getting Warm?
Is your laptop getting warm?  Does the bottom have cooling/fan vents?  Blocking these vents by using your laptop on carpets, pillows and your legs can be detrimental to both your laptop ...
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Love Your Laptop
For the past few weeks, this service company has been receiving multiple requests to service laptops with broken display hinges.  As your laptop ages the hinges which attach the display to ...
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Computer FAQs
Here are the answers to a couple frequently asked questions to help keep your computer functioning as it should. Q:  Should I power off my computer at ...
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Several Computers and Only One Printer
Having trouble figuring out how to share your solitary printer with several home computers? Here are two methods to help you out... One is to share the printer attached to a computer so ...
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Feel Secure: Protect Your Computer & Yourself!
Are you concerned about identity theft, viruses, and hackers? You should be. Here's how you can improve security and put your mind at ease. This is probably the biggest ...
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How to Best Dispose of Your Old Computers
If you have an older computer which you are no longer using, here are suggestions for the best way to get rid of them while still putting them to good use. Donations to churches and other ...
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Erasing Your Hard Drive
"74% of discarded PC hard drives contain private data that can easily be read and recovered...even if the hard drive has been reformatted."*  These unprotected drives are a significant source ...
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Give Me More Space!
As you use your computer and save music, pictures and other documents to the hard drive, you may find yourself running out of storage space. In Windows XP, a hard drive must have at least 15% of ...
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Got Backup?
While computers continue to become more and more reliable, it is inevitable that every computer will fail at some point. Recovering data from a failed drive, if even possible, can be very ...
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Getting Your Computer Up To Speed
For the vast number of users out there still running Windows XP, defragmenting your hard drive (storage memory) is probably the ...
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