How to Defrag a Computer

In last week’s post on keeping your PC in good working order, we showed you how to Empty the Recycle Bin on your PC’s desktop, and how to empty the Deleted Items folder in Microsoft Outlook. This week we’re taking a look at ‘defragging’ the hard disk on your computer,...

5 Ways to Keep Your PC in Good Order: Part 1

First Line’s customers often ask our IT help desk and IT engineers for simple advice on how to keep their computers and other technology systems running smoothly. We thought this would make a helpful blog post but it turned into such a monster, we’ve divided it out...

Is the economy really in such a poor way?

Reading the headlines and listening to the news can make you very depressed. You can just feel like battening down the hatches when you get into work and be afraid of continuing to invest in order to grow. Yet I keep wondering whether thing are really that bad. Yes we...

We’ve just launched the Firstlineblog

So, it’s welcome to the Firstlineblog. Just while we get around to creating new content, we’ve copied a couple of recent newspieces from the old technical bulletins and re-created them for you below. From now on, all news, views and technical updates will be posted to...

The dilemma of selling to charities

I’ve been thinking recently about the dilemma of selling to and supporting charities. I may be wrong but it seems to me that the number of charities is increasing, and becoming a more significant part in the computer services marketplace. They certainly need our...

What happens if your email stops working?

It’s unlikely of course, but it can happen. Like any other kind of complicated technology, internet connections and email servers can, as we know, have problems from time to time. And if either of them do go down, you won’t be able to send or receive emails until...

What happens if your staff get snowed in?

During last winter’s freeze, lots of local companies found it difficult to keep doing business because staff weren’t able to get into the office. Here at Firstlineour services ran as normal and our staff just worked from home. Like most things it required some...