Tech Tips from ChezvousPC

Lightning damage

It’s that time of year again – we seem to be in storm season, and a few customers have already been caught unawares and lost equipment because of electrical damage. We would always suggest you have some form of surge protection in place – both for the BT line, and your electrical sockets. However, the best advice we can give you is to unplug devices if you know a storm is imminent – especially the router from the BT socket!

Windows 10 updates

Some of the updates to Microsoft’s newest operating system appear to take a bit longer than others. The latest ‘Creators’ update can take up to 4Gb worth of data to download, and it isn’t unusual for your computer to be out of action for more than 30 minutes while it is installing. Be patient with it though – when it advises you not to turn off or unplug your computer, there’s a good reason, and it’s best to let it complete in its own time. Otherwise you risk causing even more problems by cutting it off halfway…

Meltdown and Spectre

The latest ‘big news’ out of the tech sector are the security threats that appear to affect nearly all computer processors developed by the big three manufacturers – Intel, AMD and ARM. But what does it mean for you at home? Well, probably not a lot; providing you are running either a Windows computer or an iMac and you have the newest version of the operating systems, it’s likely the problem will already have been patched. If, for whatever reason your computer is unable to perform its automatic updates, it really is something you should get sorted out.

Upgrade Time

For a long time, adding more RAM has been seen as a cheap and easy way to improve the performance of a sluggish PC, but prices do seem to be very high right now. Forecasts suggest the price may plateau around the second quarter of 2018, so it might be worth holding off for a little longer…

TIM, Tim and Carol – ChezvousPC

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