Hello readers.  We are just letting you know we are offering all our great services to home users as well.  We have joined Thumbtack and have found a good market for home users who need an alternative to the big box stores for help with their computing needs.  You can find our profile here: http://www.thumbtack.com/mi/south-lyon/web-developers/complete-it-services

How exciting- my very first blogging post ever!  I love to write and quite frankly- I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to start a blog.  The bigger surprise is that I’m writing about IT issues.  No I’m not an “it” girl nor am I a Kardashian wanna be.  I work with my husband doing sales for our IT company.  IT is short for Information Technology to those who think with a technological brain.  For the rest of the world it looks like someone spelled the word “it” with capital letters.  I am the Director of Development and Sales within our company.  Ironically, I am not well versed in most things concerning computers or technology.  Turns out that people who are brilliant in areas of computers, networking and all things technology are not rock stars at meeting new people and establishing sales relationships.  You may have guessed by this point that my husband is the one with the the IT brain and I’m the one who loves to meet people and cultivate business relationships.  Sounds perfect to most because he gets to spend his time doing the “geek” things he loves and I get to spend my time basically socializing which I love.  There is a major issue that arises- I’m selling what I don’t know.  Let me clarify.  I know what services we offer, I know how we handle our clients, I know what we do- but ask me how or why and I’m out.  I then need to call my husband to go anywhere beneath the surface.  He takes it from there and does surprisingly well.  I’m learning that to keep him where he needs to be (working on the geek portion) I need to learn more of what he knows.  In direct conflict with my natural God given talent I’m beginning my journey to learn the ins and outs of all things IT.  I’m not confident in this endeavor which is probably why I have the famous clip of Lucy Ball trying to wrap candy off the conveyor belt running through my head as I think about beginning this journey.  None the less- it is the beginning of a new journey.  I’ll keep posting to see where it takes me but hopefully I’ll keep learning.  I don’t know if I’ll ever develop a passion for the intricacies of IT but my passion to write about it will hopefully give me inspiration to keep trying.

Have you ever noticed that after a year or two your computer seems like a dinosaur compared to the new ones at the store?  Before you go shopping there is probably a few things you can do to your computer to give it the boost in performance you are looking for.  Adding RAM, or random access memory is an inexpensive upgrade that will create a big difference in your computer.  Another thing to look at is how many programs you are loading at startup.  As new programs are installed on your Windows computer they are set to load at startup.  Unless you use the programs all the time it doesn’t make sense for Windows to load them at startup.  A third item to consider is defragmenting your hard drive.  Although this task doesn’t need do be done every week, or even every month it should be done every quarter or so.  Finally, make sure that Windows has downloaded and installed all the critical service packs and updates for your computer.  This sometimes takes place automatically but not always.  A good way to check is to visit windowsupdate.com.  With a small amount of money and a little hard work you can speed up your old computer and get it working like a champ again.