Mike's Tech Blog

Recently I was asked to completely erase a hard drive. As a lot of people know, just deleting a file, or re-formatting the hard drive doesn't do the trick. The data is still on your hard drive, and can be easily pulled off. Luckily there are

Whenever I work on someone's computer with Vista on it, I usually get the "Windows Needs Your Permission to Continue" prompts. These security alerts do serve a purpose, however

Recently a co-worker stopped me and told me she had spilled her coffee all over her laptop, and asked me what to do. Things could be worse, it could have been pop (or soda). Here are a few suggestions that I told her to do, which are very similar to dealing with a wet cell phone.

Recently my boss's computer from his home wouldn't recognize the Jump Drive they were using. Sometimes what Windows will do is rename a Drive Letter that is already in use. In this case, what I