Upgrade HDD to SSD
If your laptop feels like it’s stuck in the stone age, slow boots, endless loading wheels, apps crawling, there’s a simple fix that feels like magic, upgrade the old hard disk drive (HDD) for a solid-state drive (SSD). It’s one of the best performance upgrades you can do, especially on older machines. Boot times drop…
Read MoreDisable forced Windows 11 restarts
Picture this: It’s 3:45 PM on a Friday. You’ve been knee-deep in a 50-slide PowerPoint presentation for that big client pitch next week. Your coffee’s gone cold, but the flow is golden. Then, bam. A little Windows notification pops up: Configuring updates. 30% complete. Do not turn off your PC. You ignore it, thinking it’ll…
Read MoreDatabase indexes
What are database Indexes? Imagine you’re looking for a specific recipe in a massive cookbook with thousands of pages. Without an index at the back, you’d have to flip through every single page until you find it, that could take forever! A database index works the same way, but for data in a computer database.…
Read MoreLaptop battery
Laptop battery I work at an investment bank, part-time on the IT helpdesk. After the Windows 11 24H2 update rolled out, the complaints flooded in: My laptop battery went from 7 hours to barely 2 hours overnight! Sound familiar? Microsoft quietly changed one default power setting that drains up to 40 % extra battery on…
Read MoreMicrosoft slow after update
I work part-time on an investment bank’s IT helpdesk, 35 years of experience in IT in banking. Every time Microsoft pushes a big update, the same thing happens: Computers that were fine yesterday become sluggishApps take forever to openFans spin like jet engines doing nothing Sound familiar? Before you reinstall Windows or buy a new…
Read MoreDatabase crimes
The 40-year-old database crime every bank (and most companies) still commit in 2025 I’ve worked with banking systems for 35 years. Every single one of them, without exception, still stores contact details like it’s 1985: 1 field for Phone1 field for Mobile1 field for Fax (yes, really)1 field for E-mail Result? Receptionists have 27 Post-it…
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