Computer Support Blog

Here at CertainIT we offer IT support to a very high standard, mainly in the Milton Keynes and London area but all over the UK.

One of the most common problems that we see with systems that we do not manage on a day to day basis, like people home machines, is that they get slow and unreliable over time. It is mainly down to Spyware Malware and Viruses.

Recently we were introduced to a fantastic product to protect you from all of this and keep your systems running smooth and free from all the nasties. There are many products on the market today that offer Antivirus protection and software firewalls.

We all the experience we have though, we feel that your best choice would be Kaspersky internet protection. It has built in AntiVirus, AntiSpam, Firewall, everything that you need with top quality technical support; it works well, it is fast and very reliable. It also updates the virus definitions every hour not every day which is a great feature with today’s internet. Take a look at http://www.kaspersky.com/

Do your self a favour and get Kaspersky for your home machines. Top quality IT support you can provide for yourself.

For someone to move from being a basic/casual user of IT to being competent, this requires IT skills which take you beyond traditional technical training to training that is designed with your work environment in mind.

During recent IT workshops in Milton Keynes, London and in the North-West of England, aimed at helping to support the effective IT use of people using computers at work, we notice that the following features and services of Office and Windows are underutilised or are frustrating to the user - basic Keyboard shortcuts, to avoid using the mouse; lack of awareness of shortcuts in Outlook - for example, for managing emails and appointments and insufficient familiarity with styles and templates in Word to save time formatting documents which are regularly used. Read the rest of this entry »