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.

Running time: 50:53
Added: 27 Nov 2009

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