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I need business and marketing advice. How do I get the word out, and what are some key advertising points?

Consider partnering up with a business that does marketing consulting specifically for computer repair businesses on a profit sharing basis (i.e. you only pay them if they bring in customers for you). BienTek is one business that does this. You should be able to find someone who is willing to help you without charging upfront fees. This way, you can continue to focus on what you are best at (technology).

So that unauthorised users cannot access restricted information.

A good protection method is Software restriction policy.

You are able to bypass it though.

http://requinix.blogspot.com/2009/01/bypass-software-restriction-policy.html

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My computer has stopped recognizing any modem and wont let any modem be installed. I have the bootable windows xp cd, if I try to repair my current windows installation using the cd, will the data stored, all files and folders, be lost or will they still remain there after rapair is complete?

You can repair your windows installation without loosing anything. First try this solution. Go to start…run then type in cmd and press enter then type in sfc/scannow and press enter. Have the windows CD ready as it may ask you to put it in the drive. If that doesn’t solve your problem leave the CD in the drive and restart the computer and when it says press any key to boot from CD do so. Let it start the set up. When you see the first press R to run the repair or recovery console ignore that and press enter to continue. When you finally see press F8 to install windows press it. It will then say please wait while we check to see if any previous versions of windows are found on this system. When it finds one it will give you the option to press R and try to repair it. Do so and you are good to go. You will not loose any data if all runs correctly.

I had some guy from home learning courses over today i sent him away saying ill think about it as i want to research first…he said that when i complete the course i can come away with a Comp TIA A+ Certification and apparently its the world standard to getting into computer maintenance etc…i just wanna know is this true? can this certificate really get me into the job i desire? or is this all a big lie just to get my money?

If you’re just getting started it is good for your resume. It shows you understand the basics of computers and networking.
A degree and an internship is much more valuable to hiring managers.

A+ is one of the most popular certifications in the IT industry and is CompTIA’s top certification and its possibly the most popular entry-level certification. My advice for a quick path into the job market would be to seek some type of administration cert… for more info visit http://www.comptia-220-702.com/

We’re in Anne Arundle County, with some serious computer issues, and we’ve already had one bad experience with a local computer place. Does anyone know a really great place to call?

Geek Squad are the best: http://www.geeksquad.com/

You seem them sometimes with their black and white beetle cars

I’m in the Computer Maintenance Technology competition in the Illonois State Conference. I was just wondering what the contest is like. I have the packet that says what it could be one but I was just wondering if anyone has actually gone there. Is it the A+ test and just repairing computers? Is there indentifying parts and other troubleshooting? Thanks

It would involve any kind or repair work.

ok i have xp and 2gb ram but it consumes about 350 mb in idle state . is it normal. i want to delete some microsoft services and application services.but whenever i tried this my computer restarted . because some essential process had terminated. and it happens every time.

you need assistance of some software that are available in the market ,such as windows manager,tuneup utilities or any tweaking programs software.however, stopping services of something without the knowledge of how it affects the performance will have adverse effect.windows will not turn off services them self, you might have turned it off.you could get the knowledge of each and every service that is not required or most required by installing some tweak manager,and carefully go through its suggestions and turn it off or on, as according to your need.

Many companies hire people to work on their help desks, looking after their workers’ computers. This kind of job can have a future, especially with a big company.

Some retail places (Best Buy Geek Squad for example) also have work in this area, so you can get a job on your resume.

When you get experience, you may be able to build your own business doing this.

There are relatively few women doing this kind of work, which turns into a real opportunity for you personally. You can make a point of how you listen carefully to a person’s problems, and find out why they’re frustrated, before you open up their computer box. Guys can be trained to to this, but as a group we tend to forget to listen.

Good luck.

I went into a computer repair shop to find out how much it would cost to upgrade the hard drive on my computer from 160gb to 320gb. I lost my temper and walked out as she was asking me questions about computers that I know nothing about. I said to her before I left " I am just a computer novice if I knew that I would just buy the hard drive and put it in myself" example "Is it DDR1 or DDR2" WHAT?????
I would just buy the 320gb hard drive from a computer mag and put it in myself if I was a "Computer geek" THATS WHY I WAS IN THE COMPUTER REPAIR SHOP!!!!

I’m sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. I used to be in the same boat as you are now. I did a lot of research on the web to educate myself so I could repair my own computer.
Start asking around your circle of friends and you will probably find someone who knows or knows someone who knows how to do what you want do do and not make you feel like a nincompoop about computers. Changing out a hard drive is not difficult. If you have a second hard drive in your computer case it makes this a lot easier. Transfer all of your personal data to another location because you will need to install the operating system (Windows) and all your programs (MS Office) again on the new hard drive. Unplug the power cord from your computer case, open the case, unplug the cable from the back of the hard drive, remove the screws from the side of the case structure enclosing the hard drive (2 per side) and slide the hard drive out of it’s location. Install your new hard drive where the old one was and reverse the steps. Plug the power cord in and turn on your computer. This is where you start to install the operating system (Windows Vista or 7). If this is too much for you, find a reliable friend to help (back to ‘circle of friends’ above). Good luck. BTW-FYI, DDR1 and DDR2 are different memory card (RAM) blade configurations that correspond the the connector plug they fit in on the Mother Board. Increasing your RAM is not necessary when swapping out a hard drive, but … 2gb is good, 4gb is great …

I would like to hear from other computer repair technicians. I have just started my own small business, mobile computer repairs for small businesses and home users, in rural Ireland, I am getting a lot of virus removal, spy-ware removal, formatting of operating systems type of work, I also intend on offering basic website design service I am also doing data recovery on usb sticks cameras and computers. I would like advice on increasing my income in areas which have proved to increase income for other such small businesses. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Internet marketing!! I love it.. it works for my brothers business and I help him out with SEO and all that stuff.

Try getting a nice website up using wordpress and then do some google adwords.