Podnutz Daily #249 - Reliant Talks Shop With Us

Steve is joined by Kevin Adair (Reliant in the chat room) of Top2Top Pros Computer Repair and Consulting from Akron, Ohio and can be followed on twitter as 108Reliant

Running time: 46:37
Added: 29 Jun 2010

Computers worked on: HP Pavillion 7850

• Acer Netbook with screen replacement
• EMachine with lost message on a dead machine, replaced power supply and hard drive, unable to recover file
• Dell 531 with Vista with spyware/malware, saved data and reinstalled

Topics and Links Discussed:

• Determining repair prices in a depressed area
• Power supply buying and testing
• JustPowerSupplies.com as a source of computer power supplies
• Reliant's experience with DVDsuper999 as a replacement screen seller on EBay
• Microsoft Security Essentials
• OpenDNS
• CinemaNow
• Netflix

File recovery programs discussed

• Recuva from Piriform
• Recover My files
• TestDisk

Voicemails/Emails:

• Howard tells of his experience with DVDsuper999 as a replacement screen seller on EBay
• Jim is looking for tools or other ways to judge computer speed before and after service
• Josh writes about powermax.com for a source of mac parts

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Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net