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Skegness' No. 1 Independant Computer Repair Shop & IT Support

Call us
01754 611720
Call Us (Shop hours)
Room 4, Albert Road Business Centre
Albert Road, Skegness
Lincs, PE25 3RB
What3words: speaking.elbowed.clef
Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00
Saturday - 09:30-12.00
Closed lunch 12.30-13:00
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  • Visit Our Shop
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    • Custom Built PCs
    • New PCs & Laptops
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    • Computer Upgrades
    • Virus & Malware Removal
    • Internet/Wifi/Network
    • Mobile Internet Installation
    • Data Backup & Transfer
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    • Hard Drive Wiping
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Category: User advice

18 Dec

Is Linux a good alternative to Windows?

First of all, what is Linux? Put simply, Linux is an operating system just like Windows but the big difference is whereas Windows is owned and developed by Microsoft and Mac OS is owned and developed by Apple, Linux is developed as open-source and has various versions known as "distributions" available. Each distribution has slight [...]
An article by gav Posted in User advice
06 Aug

End of life Windows 10, Can I upgrade to Windows 11?

I’ve heard Windows 10 is coming to an end, is this true? Yes! In October 2025, Windows 10 will reach the end of it’s product lifecycle and so Microsoft will be ending all support for it. Machines running Windows 10 will still continue to work but there will be no security updates for it or […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
10 Jan

End of the free Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 upgrade

I’m running Windows 7/8, can I still upgrade to Windows 10? In a nutshell, yes, but for free? No! Back in 2015 when Windows 10 was first launched, Microsoft allowed users of a valid Windows 7 or 8 installation to upgrade to Windows 10 for free for the first year until July 2016. But I […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
08 Aug

Running more than one antivirus software on the same machine

Do I need antivirus software to start with? We always recommend running a good quality antivirus software on your machines for your protection, even having a free antivirus software is better than not having any at all. So surely having two antivirus programs would be better than one? Not necessarily! If anything, running multiple antiviruses […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
04 Jul

Will I be able to run Windows 11?

Windows 11 has been announced, when is it coming? Despite Microsoft announcing a few years ago that Windows 10 was going to be their last release of Windows and that in future it would just be subject to updates, they have now confirmed what many have thought for a while – Windows 11 is on […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
21 Mar

Logging with a local Windows account v’s Microsoft Account

What is the difference? Ever since the introduction of Windows 8 onwards, Microsoft have made it harder to setup your machine to login in to Windows with a local account how you would have normally done so in previous versions of Windows. They would now rather you sign in with a registered Microsoft account, it […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
19 Aug

Advice when bringing your sytem to us for a clean Windows install

Bringing your device in for a clean install of Windows? There are times in your devices life when you may need to perform a clean install of Windows for various reasons such as problens within the current Windows system such as failed updates or corrupted files, or that your computer is so slow a system […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
26 Jun

Selling your hard drive or disposing of your PC?

Selling your device? There all comes a time when we want to upgrade our PC or laptop, or maybe just upgrade the storage device inside them and we may want to dispose of the old hard drive or sell it on. What about my data that was on it? Naturally, you are likely to migrate […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
06 Apr

Is it safe to let my browser store my password?

I always have my browser store my passwords, is it safe? It is very common amongst users to let their favourite web browser store their passwords for websites, email accounts etc. Whilst convenient for the fact you do not have to worry about inputting your password each time you visit a website and it saves […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice
07 Dec

Is my computer overheating?

My laptop or desktop PC is getting hot, is it dangerous? Yes! Whilst it is often common for a laptop or computer to run warm, components that start to overheat can lead to many negative effects on the running of your system including: Component failure (can be costly!) Strange sounds from the fan(s) Crashing, freezing […]

An article by gav Posted in User advice

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