Misc. Notebook Parts
N3845 -- LCD Inverter for Dell Vostro/Inspiron -$9.95 Our parts are for the use of our technicians only. Viewed 542 Times Date Blogged: 5/5/2010

The Science of False Positives

Consider yourself lucky if you were not affected by the large scale problem caused by a McAfee defect. Understandably customers are very angry at McAfee, and competitors can't wait to eat into McAfee's customer base. It's a dog eats dog world. Here's a Response from McAfee. We want to educate our customers that what just happened is neither fantastic nor disastrous. It's the nature of the beast. Please contact us if your computer crashed due to this issue or if you are considering an alternative anti-virus. Disclosure: Lyons is a McAfee partner. PS: But McAfee is not our customer. You are! Call us today! Viewed 622 Times Date Blogged: 4/24/2010

Printer with a Mouse
Please do not call us if your laser printer is jammed by a mouse. Sorry, we don't do inkjet printer repairs or any printer repairs when a living thing is involved. But we do Repair Laser Printers -- even when they are out of warranty and even if you do not have a maintenance contract. Viewed 662 Times Date Blogged: 4/21/2010

Dropping Unique Constraints in SQL Server
We had a customer who was having trouble removing a SQL Server constraint. Even removing the column and re-adding didn't help. You can't even DROP INDEX command. The trick is to use ALTER TABLE command with DROP CONSTRAINT Example: alter table dbo.Projects drop constraint [UQ__Projects__46B27FE2] Viewed 934 Times Date Blogged: 3/7/2010

How to Download Microsoft Office

The very nature of software (intangible, intellectual work involving half-art-and-half-science) renders itself to complications of licensing. We help all our customers buy legitimate software and licenses. One of the most commonly misunderstood usage of software is what we call in the industry as the "OEM Licence", otherwise known as "came with the computer" license, and customers are often left without a re-install cd should something happen (like virus infection or hard disk crash). After numerous customer complaints, Microsoft is now allowing people to donwload a personal backup copy of Microsoft Office. Download Microsoft Office Viewed 1141 Times Date Blogged: 1/27/2010

Our Parts are for Our Use Only

Due to the popularity of our website we are getting many phone calls for small and hard to find computer parts. Sorry, the parts we stock are for use of our technicians only. They are not for sale. For example: • HP P3005 Gear Kit -- P30005-GK --RU5-0958-000CN • HP P3005 Gear Kit -- P30005-GK --RU5-0956-000CN These parts cost less than a buck. If you want to hire us to diagnose your problem or to install the part, we welcome your call, but selling parts is not profitable for us and we are not setup for it. Viewed 1519 Times Date Blogged: 12/11/2009

Software Update Breaking Sonys

In the last couple of days, we have seen a number of Sony VIAO notebooks coming in with Blue Screen of Death (for XP) or Black Screen of Death (for Vista). All of them have the same problem. A recently installed software update. Strangely, it has been different softwares for different machines. For two of them, it was the Microsoft update. On one of them it was Office Update, and for two others, application (like Adobe or HP) updates. Obviously, some low level hardware driver or dll has an incorrect version causing all this trouble. In a twisted way, our recommended solution is one of prevention, which is to apply all the software updates in time. Viewed 1457 Times Date Blogged: 12/7/2009

Windows 7 Upgrade Chart

We had our taste of Windows 7 Install/Upgrade/Migrate today when we moved a customer's data from Windows XP Home to WIndows 7 Professional. The entire process took about six hours and cost the customer $255 (he had 50GB of email, documents and music). It was not without pain. Believe it or not, there are 64 different ways to move to Windows 7 (see the chart below). We recommend that unless you are falling in a green box, please call us to perform the migration for you. Viewed 1726 Times Date Blogged: 10/30/2009

How to Cancel Paypal Subscription

You know how easy it is to click on a Paypal "Subscribe Now" button and signup for products and services. They are everywhere. But wait till you discover how difficult it is to cancel that subscription. Nobody wants to make it easy for you to quit. We call it "I want to quit the gym or Maria" (clip shown below) tactic. Even PayPal doesn't make it any easy. Please follow these elaborate steps (you might want to print this page for handy reference). Even finding the right item in the "come-and-go" cascading menus is a challenge. Steps to Cancel Recurring Payments on PayPal Log in to your PayPal account Click the My Account tab Click the History subtab. Click More filters, select Subscriptions and agreements, and then click Subscriptions. Change the date back to the year the subscription was created, and then click Show Click Details next to the subscription Click Cancel Subscription. Screenshot shows the hard to find Paypal Subscription Cancellation Menu Option Viewed 1770 Times Date Blogged: 10/24/2009

Hotmail Blocking BellSouth
We are flooded with calls from customers that their e-mail is not flowing. Apparently this is a wide-spread problem, and unfortunately there is nothing Lyons Team can do. Viewed 1791 Times Date Blogged: 10/7/2009