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Windows Update Conflict with Avast, Avira, Sophos

17 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Services

Following some recent Windows updates, some Users have complained that they are experiencing problems such as freezing on start up. This has been attributed to a conflict with some anti-virus programs including Avast, Avira and Sophos. It's a particular issue, apparently, for computers which are still on Windows 7. The three companies which provide the [...]

Working (or Not) Over Easter

11 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

No doubt most of you would have realised by now that taking three days of annual leave over Easter this year will result in a full ten-day holiday because of how Easter and ANZAC day fall this year (the days are the 23rd, the 24th and the 26th of April). I know of one Cambridge [...]

Big Changes Afoot at IRD

04 Apr 2019 Gina Whytein: Employment, Public Notices

I've been talking about Payday Filing of PAYE Employee Details for a while now, but this is just one part of a bigger package of changes that have come into effect at the start of the financial year. Another significant change is that if you are a wage or salary earner (only), you will no longer need [...]

White Listing Junk Emails which are Not Junk

28 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Tips & Tricks

Email applications are quite strict with their spam filters now which I think we all appreciate. But what happens when a legitimate email you would actually like to receive gets immediately relegated to your junk folder? Today I'm going to describe how to re-categorise emails from a sender you would like emails from in future, [...]

Minimum Wage Increase and Payday Filing – less than two weeks to deadline

20 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

The end of the financial year is fast approaching. Businesses now have less than two weeks to sort out anything that needs to be done by then. Today I'm going to discuss two big changes that need to be sorted by the end of next week. Increase to the Minimum Wage The Minimum Wage will [...]

High Quality Refurbished Laptop on Special

19 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Devices, Specials

At Green Mouse this week we have a refurbished HP Elitebook 8470w, check out the specs below. We only have one. Elitebook 8470w Micron 256GB SSD 8GB RAM Windows 10 Pro I7-3820 Quad core Intel CPU 14" Screen Price: $399 including GST This laptop is fast and the graphics are excellent. We only have one so [...]

Urgent Security Warning for Chrome

11 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety, Public Notices

A serious security threat has been identified by Google which could affect users of Google Chrome. A vulnerability has been identified which could allow hackers to insert malicious code directly into your operating system - potentially allowing them to do whatever they like. The security flaw takes advantage of a particular interaction between Chrome and Windows [...]

Refurbished Computers – Now an Excellent Choice

06 Mar 2019 Gina Whytein: Devices

Here at Green Mouse we have been supplying computers to our clients for years. Our policy is that we won't sell cheap, sub-standard computers but now we have another option - good quality refurbished computers with the option of a new SSD. Recently I wrote about the price reduction in new SSDs (Solid State Hard Drives). They [...]

Windows 7 – The End is near…very near

25 Feb 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Online Safety

Microsoft announced some time ago that Windows 7 will no longer be supported from January 2020. We strongly recommend that Windows 7 users, and especially businesses, upgrade to Windows 10 before July this year. What does it mean when your operating system is no longer ‘supported’? The first issue is updates, which boils down to security. Frequent updates [...]

“Your personal Google+ account is going away…”

12 Feb 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Last week Google sent out an email to everyone who uses Gmail to advise them that Google+ will be closing down. The reason for this decision is that no one is using Google+, which is the same reason that no one knows what it is, and the reason that we were collectively confused by this email. [...]

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