The fantastic thing about helping people with issues is you are helping people. A few customers were awesome enough to be prepared to say how they felt on video so click play below to see what they thought of SW Computer Services!
Note we do provide video like this as a service to businesses wanting to [...]

At last the telephone exchange in Winscombe has been upgraded to provide cheaper and faster broadband to locals in Somerset living in Winscombe, Sandford, Shipham and surrounds. As usual if you want to know more call us in Cheddar (01934 808088), or pop into the shop at the bottom of the gorge or click the [...]

I had a really interesting computer in from a charity in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset this week. They wanted it upgraded to Windows 7 and the memory increased. The computer works perfectly with no issues but when I opened the casing two capacitor covers fell out – this is quite unusual! Looking at the picture (enlarged below) [...]

I have had my iPad for about 4 months now and have to say it is the best IT spend I have spent in a long long time! It certainly does not replace a PC or laptop but it does make one of the nicest most flexible diary, email device, portable entertainment device, and work [...]

Software 4 Students is the place to go for software if you are a student Full versions of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus for under £40! Certainly some great genuine bargains to be had if you qualify and as many parents need to equip their children with laptops with all the software this is a [...]

Woohoo – Cheddar and Draycott now finally have an upgraded exchange aka the local loop has been unbundled (LLU if you really are keen on TLA’s (three letter acronyms)).
What does this mean to you if you live here? Cheaper and faster broadband. Note you do have to take advantage of this by doing something. ISP’s [...]

Just updating a wordpress blog when I discovered maintenance mode – instead of your blog you get a site is being updated message

Maintenance
Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

but if it is not updated you are locked out of admin etc.  This means your whole site is unavailable to anyone. The solution [...]

Getting tired of my HTC HD Touch phone I have been ogling the new Android phones sepcially the Google Hero phone! BUT the decision will end up coming down to how cool the new Iphone will be. I am not patient when it comes to waiting for new technology so will have to either get [...]

Hard drives are to a large extent ignored by most computer users. They do consist of moving parts and so do wear out at some point. Modern ones are fantastically sealed so they are dust proof and spin at ridiculous speeds but nevertheless defragmenting your drive occasionally will decrease the work it does.
Failure of hard [...]