Foothills Technical Support has been servicing home and business computers since 2002. We provide Windows-based repair, maintenance and new installations for your home and home-based business computer laptops, desktops and networks. Foothills Technical Support is currently based in the Ahwatukee/Foothills area of Phoenix, Arizona. Our services are focused primarily on the Ahwatukee, Tempe, west Chandler regions of the Phoenix...
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Scanning the internet for help is a very good way to solve a problem, as long as you can define it. Googling “my pc is broken” or “why won’t Word start” will get you bizarre results and many tech support sites. That is why this site is dedicated to narrowing down your problem and hopefully give you enough...
Owning a computer requires some time to maintain so that small problems don’t turn your computer into scrap metal. Problems can be averted with common sense and a little bit of knowledge, some very obvious, others not what you would expect . The top five precautions you should take are:
Backup your...
Fortunately, Microsoft has built-in security features that thwart hackers but that could change at any time, You can help yourself by making sure that your network is fully protected. Your router has WEP, WPA and a few other password protection encryption types. It’s simple really – you have a network password on you...
So your computer won’t even start up. You have a number of options that you can take. First and most importantly, you will need your files back assuming you don’t have a backup. The first option is boot from a recovery disk. You don’t have one, then we need to find one. If you don’t need any files or...