Nowadays, hard drives come with plenty of space for all your storage needs. If you purchased a computer or laptop in the last three years you should have at least a 250Gb hard drive which is plenty of space for your photos, videos, music, and documents. But every now and then we get a remote …
If you are like most people, you have a love/hate relationship with the Notification Center on your Mac. These little pop-up alerts keep you up to date on all the most important news and information, like when a critical business call was missed, the availability of a must-have app update, or what time to pick …
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At Boxaid, our technicians do a lot of virus and malware removal. Sometimes that can be easy to remove a virus or a hijacked browser and sometimes it is a lot of painstaking manual effort. Every now and then our customers call in thinking they are infected with malware or a virus because of excessive …
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We are shifting to a remote workforce in these times of COVID 19, and while for many workers in the United States that is the norm; it can be a big shift for others. We at Boxaid of course have all our employees working from home. We realized the benefit of this 13 years ago …
We know the pain of our customers who have a generally slow computer. It is one of the most common computer problems that we troubleshoot at Boxaid. This is where our online IT support experts begin the troubleshooting process trying to determine if the entire computer is slow or a specific application or possibly the …
At Boxaid we have seen every technical computer problem in existence. We have fixed over 10,000 computers in the 13 years we have been business. Every now and then we do run into a problem that we have solved before but the typical list of solutions that used to work no longer works. This of …
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At Boxaid we see countless technical problems every day. Some are simple virus removal and some are complex technical problems that take several hours to diagnose and fix. We of course use Google religiously to look up additional info if we don’t know the answers off the top of our head. We recently ran into …
The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 with the aim to protect consumers from deceptive and anticompetitive business practices, and maintain a strong, fair, and competitive market. With an explosion of cyber-related scams over the past decade, the FTC has been fighting to prosecute and punish those whose aim it is to extort money …
There are countless errors that you can find on Windows and we see many of them at Boxaid. One error we occasionally run into is 2502 or 2503 errors. These typically show up when you are trying to install or uninstall a program on Windows. This could be a common program like a PDF reader …
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Microsoft Office is an essential part of our professional life. All of the important documents, files, presentations, and data are usually planned, written and secured in Microsoft office products such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Among multiple technical problems regarding Microsoft office, we often run into a common issue which is missing Office icons (aka …
