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Restarting Your Computer as a Solution

31 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Uncategorized

Like me, you may have been operating on the previously very good advice that regularly turning your computer off properly would be sufficient for updates and the general health of your computer. Unfortunately Windows 10 has a feature called Fast Startup which is going to require that we change our behaviour again (or disable it). [...]

Green Mouse is an Essential Service

26 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Device Repair, Public Notices, Services

Happy first day of lock down everyone :) We hope you're all well. No doubt many of you (like us) are now working from home, or at least trying to set yourself up to do so. We've had confirmation from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that we are an Essential Service, due to [...]

Using Teamviewer

23 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

As we all gear up to work from home, the application Teamviewer is going to be very helpful. It will allow us, with your permission, to access your computer remotely. In this way we will be able to repair problems or make changes that you need without any physical contact. If you purchased your computer [...]

MYOB v19 Clash with Windows 10

05 Mar 2020 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Public Notices, Services

In another example of 'good reasons to keep your programs up to date', an old version of MYOB (v19) is now being blocked by Windows 10. Here is the message that three of our clients have received today: "This app has been blocked for your protection. For more information contact the administrator" Basically, Windows 10 has [...]

Quality Refurbished All-In-One for Sale

19 Feb 2020 Gina Whytein: Devices, Specials

We have a great All In One for sale this week, refurbished with a new Solid State Drive. It's the HP Pavilion 27-n101a. Now this is technically a touch screen but the touch screen function is terrible, not faulty, just bad in this model. So we're selling it for significantly cheaper than a touchscreen model [...]

Microsoft to Default Bing via Office 365 ProPlus Updates

05 Feb 2020 Gina Whytein: Tips & Tricks

This may come as a surprise to some, but believe it or not there are search engines available for use online other than Google. Despite Google maintaing such a monopoly on this that it's name has become a verb (to 'Google' it), Microsoft still apparently hopes to get in on this action. Their search engine Bing [...]

Free Corded Mice and Keyboards

16 Jan 2020 Gina Whytein: Uncategorized

Happy New Year everyone!! We've ended up with 10 wired mice and 10 wired keyboards which we would like to give away to maybe a school or charitable or community organisation or similar. I'm sure there are plenty of possibilities but we'll need to hear from someone directly involved in the organisation to determine [...]

Pre-loved Keyboard+Mouse Sets $5

16 Dec 2019 Gina Whytein: Specials

Ho, ho, ho - Santa has some super cheap, pre-loved, corded, keyboard and mouse sets for just $5 each. Get in quick this week if you would like a set, stocks are limited. Please note – our office will be closed from 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 24 December 2019 and will reopen at 8:30 [...]

Green Mouse – Our Hours Over the Holiday Season

26 Nov 2019 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

Nearly Happy Holidays everyone. With about four weeks remaining I thought I'd let you know what our holiday hours will be this year. If you have any computer issues you would like solved before Christmas please bring them to our attention sooner rather than later, and remember that Windows 7 will become unsupported as of [...]

The Importance of the Complete Shut Down

18 Nov 2019 Gina Whytein: Device Care, Tips & Tricks

Over the past week we've had several clients present us with issues which have been largely caused by failure to shut down their computer properly for an extended period, coincidentally, for each about a month. Like humans, computers do not like staying 'awake' for extended periods. Just like us, it makes them behave strangely. I [...]

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