Our Disposable Society

Our Disposable Society

Today I was contacted by a potential customer that has an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500. He wrote that the printer is displaying a paper jam error message and that it seems to have a broken gear inside but that there is no evidence of paper actually jammed in the printer. The...

Adding RAM to Your PC is Best Upgrade

Scenario: PC is 3 or more years old and still running well. You demand a lot from it. Sometimes you have 4 or more Windows applications open at a time. It feels a bit sluggish and takes too long to open a program. Solution: Add RAM. If you have less than 4gb of RAM,...
What to do with an old computer

What to do with an old computer

Here at Progressive Office, we often are asked “What should I do with my old computer?” Your computer is dead. Or maybe it is just not good enough anymore. Well, first, what does “dead” mean. Dead means it won’t turn on or it won’t...
Shutdown 4 PCs with 1 UPS

Shutdown 4 PCs with 1 UPS

After replacing the main UPS here at the office this past weekend , I began to wonder if there were a way to shutdown more than 1 PC connected to the UPS. As most of you know, a UPS will come with a communications port to let the PC know the status of the UPS. This is...