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IT Support Company in Cape Town and Pretoria...

Congratulations Chrissie on celebrating her 1st year with the The Computer Guyz. As an IT Support company, we're only as good as the people on our team! Chrissie handles inbound sales and functions...

Cape Town - IT Structure relocation

Relocated a clients 20 user network including workstations, printers, servers and cabinet. As the designated IT Support Company in Cape Town for this client for the past 5 years, we understand thei...

Klarus Light Website Launch

New website launched with an exceptional range of imported torches. Klarus Light delivered a brief that they wanted a slick, clean and easy to navigate website with e-commerce abilities and we've d...

Rocket Website

New website: www.rocketsa.co.za This website has been built for the Rocket Signs company that deals with printing on large scale to almost any application!

R.E.S.T - Donation

We're having a great start to the year, but things aren't going as well all over the Western Cape. Just last week the region was ravaged by fires in the Helderberg area and most of the Peninsula. O...

New Website - endcap.co.za

Endcap specializes in brand shelf marketing and merchandising. We developed this website following an exact guide-line the client gave to us to work with. The end result left the client nothing sho...

Truelies.co.za - Joomla 2.5 Upgrade

Truelies opted for our J-Upgrade offer which is for R700! The client received a Joomla 2.5 upgrade and a new template! Further SEO optimisation helped to obtain higher google rankings too. We urge ...

NEXAN Installer

Nexan cabling is without a doubt one of the world's finest cabling standards, offering a 20 year guarantee on full Nexan installs. Encompassing the full range of copper and optical fibre, Nexan sol...

Pro Ed House IT Infrastructure

Dear Brian and crew, A huge thank you for the fantastic job you guys have done. My internet is flying and I have a bunch of happy teachers. You guys were professional and dedicated to the task at ...

RSG Interview with Craig Pedersen

Yesterday morning, Craig Pedersen was on the radio station RSG, where he chatted a bit about the vicious CTB Locker virus outbreak. If you didn’t catch the interview, to put it simply, what the virus ...

Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift is definitely the technology company to keep your eyes on. Initially started as a concept company seeking seed capital, Oculus has soared well above expectation as a business, but also as ...

Why would I possibly want my e-mail on...

Well, I’m always a cautious adopter of new technologies; I like to think them through carefully, weigh up the pros and cons, and of course do a proper cost-benefit analysis. Sure I live and play wi...

Gone – but not forgotten

We live in the age of public trials, teams of attorneys that are as expensive as they are expansive and Joe Citizens understanding of courtroom evidence and what it takes to prove a case in court i...

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Add a POP3 account in Outlook 2007

Add and manually configure a POP3, IMAP, or HTTP e-mail account Perhaps you're experiencing mail problems and need to re-configure your mail account. This is a quick cheat sheet of the steps involved...

Add a POP3 account in Outlook 2010

Perhaps you're experiencing mail problems and need to re-configure your mail account and your IT Support company isn't available to assist. Perhaps you have decided to buy your own domain name or res...

Remove a virus/malware

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* product you can download to help defend computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. N...

Boot to safe mode

As your computer is booting, press the F8 key repeatedly just before the splash screen. You should get a bunch of different boot options from there such as: Safe Mode: Loads minimum amount of proc...

Speed up your PC

Tidying up your PC every month or so is a really great idea to keep it in shape. We reccomend the use of a free utility called CCleaner by the great people over at Piriform. Just download the file (it...

Understanding domain names

Domain Name System, or DNS, is the most recognized system for assigning addresses to Internet web servers (aka "Internet hosts"). Somewhat like international phone numbers, the domain name system help...

Understand IP Addresses

You see the "IP address" expression more and more. Your computer has an IP address, your phone has an IP address. Even Coke machines have IP addresses. Cops on CSI and other TV shows trace criminals ...

Understand website hosting

You need to store the files that make your website work (images, buttons, codes, etc.) in an internet server with a fixed address and always-on fast internet connection so that they can be displayed a...

Master windows shortcut keys

General keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+C (Copy) Ctrl+X (Delete selected item and save a copy to the clipboard) Ctrl+V (Paste) Ctrl+Z (Undo) Delete (Delete) Shift+Delete (Delete the selected item p...

How to retrieve your stolen laptop

STOP! What if your laptop/desktop or phone were stolen right now? Not a pleasant thought really is it. At The Computer Guyz we’re constantly called by people who have had phones or laptops ...