Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #205 – Clive Of All Trades
Steve is joined by Clive Struver from England.
He has two websites:seniorpcmoments.co.uk and westecbiz.co.uk and has a degree in electronics and computer science, worked for Motorola Semiconductors, before going into repairing computers.
Computer repairs:
- PC crashing when streaming videos, inside overheating, found failed fan on power supply
- Computer with problem, was told by by Dell to reformat, but not told to back-up data first (see the links below for various recovery tools used by Clive)
- Ran across a wireless set-up that used MAC address filtering instead of setting up a SSID/password
Topics discussed:
- Keeping overhead costs down and limiting free advice in a repair shop
- Repair shop vs. in-home service
- Business mailing for advertising.
- Computer clubs for business promotion.
- Computer training sessions
- If malwarebytes is not allowed to load by a virus, you can try to rename malwarebytes before loading
- Trojan Remover
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Norton Security Suite vs. just the anti-virus
- AVG pros and cons Vs. Microsoft Security Essentials
- Glary Utilities
- Spotmau is a suite of programs similar to UBCD4WIN, Clive says it boots faster, but is not free.
- Clive likes Spin-rite for hard-drive recovery, but as a last resort
- Easus data recovery for file recovery
- Disk Doctors Outlook Mail Recovery for .pst email recovery
- Acronis backup
Voicemails/Emails:
- Testing LCD screens on dead laptops for parting out on eBay
- Creating websites for computer repair tech’s
- Getting Microsoft Expression Web at dreamspark.com for free with a valid student Email address
- Steve’s favorite Laptop Screen sellers on eBay: dvdsuper999 and laptopaid
Steve reminds you about his Laptop Repair Videos specially priced at $54.95
Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net
