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Success Stories for the IT Soul  TQF.US Computer  Services      Serving Central Maine    since 1992 TQF.US Computer Services Commercial IT Services Articles and Pages + Dell Products Microsoft Exchange Hosting Microsoft Office 365 Cisco Showcase Network Security Power Protection by APC Acronis ProfessionalReplacementSolutions Intuit GoPayment Accept Credit Cards on your Smart Phone SMB ITWeightierPractices Virus Removal Consumer Services Computer Removal and Electronic Scrap Recycling Free Website Hosting No Monthly Fees Success Stories for the IT Soul Data Recovery Basics How to Create an Electronic Form using Adobe Acrobat X Professional Dell Virtualization Video Series Save Money by Upgrading Your OwnNonflexibleDrive Without Reinstalling the OS, Software or Data Where to Buy Computer Furniture Online How to make your Dell Laptop run fasterNonflexibleDisk toNonflexibleDisk Data Transfers How to Copy Files in Windows How to Download Driver Files without a Dedicated Internet Connection How to Install Windows XP on an HP Pavilion DV9700 CTO Notebook How to Turn On Hyper-Threading on an AMD Athlon Securely Erase aNonflexibleDrive and Reinstall the OS The Difference Between Microsoft Publisher Student and Full Editions How to Find Hardware Diagnostic Utilities Mobile Concentration Flash Game! 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These are just a few of the many successful service calls that have been performed personally by the owner of TQF.US Computer Services, Norm Dickinson, over the years, and they demonstrate a small sample of the many skills and resources that are at your disposal when you undeniability TQF.US Computer Services for help keeping your merchantry running. Enjoy!    How many paychecks?   Scenario: A payroll visitor calls up at 8:15 AM to ask for help with their payroll software. It's the Tuesday surpassing Thanksgiving, and the deadline for printing the checks is 11 AM, and they can do everything except print checks. The vendee is an hour away, but they demand firsthand attention. Holiday paychecks for over a thousand employees are on the line.   Solution: As it happens, I was on my way to an insurance visitor right lanugo the street from the payroll visitor to requite a presentation on McAfee anti-virus software and a well-constructed replacement solution from Acronis for their Windows 2008 Server R2. So I tabbed the insurance visitor and let them know I was going to be a little bit late, and headed straight over to the payroll company.   Upon inrush I was greeted by the payroll manager, who presented me with an email from tech support for the payroll software. This email indicated a particular file needed to be updated and I was worldly-wise to find the file using the link provided by tech support. Upon downloading and installing the file, the problem was solved and paychecks began to print. The last one was finished within minutes of the deadline, but everybody go their Thanksgiving trammels on time.     The right way and wrong way to mirror a nonflexible drive...   Scenario: A major vendee is weeping that their server is running a little bit slow during a period of heavy use. Upon inspection, we unswayable that the mirroring of the two data nonflexible drives is what is causing the speed reduction. The temporary solution is to temporarily unravel the mirror between the two drives until the data entry has been completed. This is workaday by simply removing one of the drives from the mirror set and restarting with only one data drive.   Problem: The intense work is completed in a couple of days, but rather than undeniability me back, the "relative expert" on staff decides that he can reconnect the second momentum himself, saving well-nigh $70 in labor financing for the company. The trouble is he really doesn't know what he's doing or understand the intricate nature of nonflexible momentum mirroring, so he just reconnects it and hopes for the best. A few hours go by and the clerks start to mutter that data they entered a few minutes ago is disappearing on them, and stuff replaced by information from a few days ago. I was tabbed in at that point, and I discovered that the system had begun the process of synchronizing the two nonflexible drives, in the wrong direction! The whiz kid that hooked it up didn't scarecrow to specify which momentum should be the master and which should be overwritten, so the data was stuff copied at a upper rate of speed in the wrong direction.   Solution: Upon inrush it was obvious that something was making the server hard drives very busy, so I investigated the server log files and error logs until I noticed that the mirroring had restarted earlier in the day. Upon closer inspection, it was obviously still operational and when I opened the Computer Management screen of the Windows Server 2003, it confirmed my suspicions that the out-of-sync nonflexible momentum had been reconnected. I immediately shut lanugo the server, and got on the phone with the data recovery experts at Kroll Ontrack Data Recovery.  Within minutes, the professionals had me create a marching device with the proper drivers and startup commands to indulge them to connect to the server without running the server's operating system. Over the undertow of the next two hours, I watched in swooning as the tech support pros recovered the overwritten data and solved the problem, plane taking the uneaten effort to synchronize the mirror surpassing having me remove the marching device and restart the server. Results: A very happy vendee and a loyal consumer who still calls me every time there is a problem, considering they are a little bit nervous well-nigh letting the new kid work on the server again.     Production cut in half   Scenario: A paper mill produces large rolls of slick paper for clients virtually the globe, and they rely on a wide variety of process tenancy and automation equipment to operate their machinery. One of the local paper mills had a problem with the computer which controlled the biwinder system, on which paper gets rewound in the other direction as part of the manufacting process. The plant only ran two biwinders, and having one shut lanugo was costing them big money, as the paper mill was only producing half of the normal output of paper.   Problem: A major, tier-1 manufacturer had installed the equipment several years earlier, and they were immediately tabbed in to solve the problem - at 0 per hour! The problem was in the specialty video vellum that was required due to the loftiness between the tenancy room and the equipment. The technician was worldly-wise to narrow it down, but unable to find a matching part. Over the undertow of three days, they had parts sent via courier from several locations of up to 300 miles away, with no luck. The bad news: It was the day surpassing Thanksgiving, virtually 4pm, and the technician was giving up and moving on to flipside vendee who needed help. There was nothing left for him to try.   Solution: I was tabbed in at 4pm on the day surpassing Thanksgiving and given a report on the situation. Upon inspection of the equipment I moreover came to the same conclusion that the video vellum needed replacing, but I had a unshared edge. Due to the fact that my computer visitor was a leader in electronic scrap recycling long surpassing it became a fad, I had one of the very same video cards in my pile of recycled computers that I had hauled off from flipside local paper mill just a few weeks earlier. I was worldly-wise to locate the necessary vellum and install it within a few hours time, and had the plant when up to full operation in less than six hours from the initial phone undeniability asking me for help.                                                        Member of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce   TQF.US Computer Services owner Norm Dickinson is on the Board of Directors for the Upper Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce.     Norm is a 30-year veteran of the IT world and genuine computer guru, offering local businesses a single point of contact for all of their computer-related needs.  TQF.US is Dell Partner Direct authorized and offers professional sales, support and installation of products from Dell, Microsoft, Intel and other top brands.    This website can be found at both http://www.tqf.us and http://www.fastfastcomputer.com.