Santa Cruz Voters Also Name ClickAway Winner Best Computer Repair For 7thth Year CAMPBELL, CA — (April 5, 2021) – ClickAway is proud to announce to have been selected as the Winner Best Computer Repair for the 10th year by the readers of the San Jose Mercury News. This announcement places ClickAway into the prestigious Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. In Read More »
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72% of People Have A Broken…
Broken Cell Phones & Other Fascinating Stats 72% of People Have a Broken Phone Sometimes these breaks happen in the strangest ways possible. Including my dog ate it, violently sneezing and cracking it on my bedpost, using it as a baseball, and my kid threw it out of a car window. What are some of Read More »
Windows 10 error when trying to print?
If you’ve encountered a recent blue screen of death after updating your Windows 10, it’s not you but a Windows 10 error bug in the update. According to Microsoft, there is an issue with the most recent Windows 10 update causing the blue screen when attempting to print documents on certain printers. Reports vary but Read More »
Is Your Laptop Overheating?
If your laptop is overheating and it’s running at max capacity, it will try to reduce its performance to stay cool. You could be in for many frustrating hours of refreshing the Internet, waiting for your documents to load, and staring at that dreaded rainbow-hued spinning wheel. If you don’t want to waste time, invest in your laptop now by cleaning the keyboard every other week and the fans at least once a month. For a deep clean, ClickAway recommends every 6 months. For power users, we recommend once a quarter. Our free diagnostic comes in handy here.
Tesla’s Flash Memory Failure: Reminding Us Computer Parts Wear Out, Eventually
What is a Flash Memory Failure? Electric car giant Tesla has issued a recall for some 135,000 vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal, due to a flash memory failure in the touchscreen panels. A lot of data is logged to the internal flash. Given enough time those memory cells wear out, resulting in a broken chip. In Read More »
Why Apple won’t repair some MacBook Pro or MacBook Air models
Do you struggle with your older MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and you can’t get the Apple store to help you out? Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s MacBook repair policy for legacy products. The “Obsolete” List A number of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models are now on Apple’s vintage and obsolete Read More »
How To Fix Common Zoom Problems
Zoom is more popular than ever and has become a household name. Be it distance learning, working from home or online socializing, entertainment and fitness, Zoom is not without problems. Bugs and issues can get in the way of your Zoom experience. Luckily, most Zoom problems you can fix yourself. Of course, a ClickAway technician Read More »
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Internet Safety: Are Your Kids At Risk Online in 2020?
It’s not the lack of desk space parents are worried about with distance learning. Internet safety and child identity theft has us really concerned. If one million children fell victim to identity theft in 2017, think what that number is today? Everyone’s online, including the bad guys. So, let’s take some time to help your Read More »
Zoom Meetings: The funniest things people say and do
We can’t stop laughing at all the funny things people say and do on Zoom and Google Duo meetings. At first, we thought this would pass but with distance learning starting up again, funny keeps happening. And we need a little funny these days. At ClickAway we continue to fix your home internet, computers and Read More »