Congratulations to our winners! David Pope’s name was drawn first and he won a 10” netbook, Cindy Ricketts won an iPod Touch, and Judy Ringle won an 8GB flash drive!

Over the last 18 months or so, we have been working on some specialized systems that control manufacturing machines and medical equipment. The machines have been a hit and are really starting to take off. The coolest thing about it, we have machines in many different countries across the world, not to mention in probably half of the states in the US. To us at SabreTech, that is pretty cool that systems from us are being delivered and used across the world! Just a little more proof that we are a lot more than your “small town” computer store!!!

It’s that time of year again!! Well, actually it is a little bit early this year!

But anyway, it’s time for the Annual SabreTech Open House! Come join the fun! Saturday May 23rd, starting at 10am.

WCSR will be on site remotely broadcasting. There will be sales on monitors, printers, and complete systems. We will also be giving away some good prizes! The top prize….... a brand new NETBOOK LAPTOP!

So come on down! Check out our new building, have some food, enter to win prizes, and of course have a good time!

The move is complete! Our new location is at 154 Lewis St in Hillsdale, so please stop by and see us.

It took one long weekend to move in, and another week to start feeling at home, but now we’re loving it. Traffic so far has been great, so thanks again to those who have popped in to say hi already. Once the weather gets a little better we’ll do an open house so we can get everyone out to see us. We’ll grill some dogs and give you the tour!

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First, I would like to thank all of our customer’s for your continued faith in us. We appreciate your loyalty and trusting us to handle all of your technology needs.

Second, exciting news from SabreTech. We are expanding our operations and moving to a new location. We will be moving to the new location on January 23rd and will be open for business there January 26th. The new location is located at 154 Lewis St. in Hillsdale, between Mac’s All-Temp and County National Bank.

Our larger location will help us serve our customer’s needs better. It will also allow us to stock more components and start offering training courses in the future.

So starting January 26th be sure to come check out our new location. While you are there you can also meet Tom from Blank’s Telephone Service and Ashley from Collective Memories Photography, two businesses located in the second floor of our new building!

We look forward to seeing you there and continuing to fulfill all of your technology needs!

Are you ready for that jump to Vista? If you are then come to SabreTech, we will make it a lot less scary. With the release of Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft has fix the majority of the bugs the original release had. We at SabreTech have also researched ways to make your new Vista machine run like it should. Vista is the future of Windows based machines, and we at SabreTech would like to help you into the future. Remember, "Making Technology Work for People", is what we do.

Thank you to everyone who attended our second annual customer appreciation day. We had a great time meeting with everyone! I hoped all of you enjoyed it also....... ok enough with the rambling.
Here are the winners of the drawing!
2GB Flash Drive; Alan Adams of Hillsdale
4GB Flash Drive; Shelley Downey of Hillsdale
Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Kit; Elaine Jermeay of Hillsdale
New Dell Laptop; Chuck Newton of Reading
Congratulations to everyone! We had a great time and thank you again for stopping by. We can't wait until next year!!!

We are having our second annual open house at SabreTech this weekend. Be sure to come down and join for a day of fun, food, and prizes. WCSR will be here broadcasting from 10 am to 12 pm. There will be door prizes for everyone! Also be sure to enter your name in the drawing, the grand prize is a NEW LAPTOP!!!! So be there or....... just be there!!!

Well service pack one has been out for Vista for around a month now. Even with service pack one though vista still has some bugs to work out, and of course it still runs slow "right out of the box". At SabreTech we have found some things that will help make your new Vista machine run like a new machine.

1. Remove any programs that you don't use that came from the manufacturer, i.e., Dell Pre-installed Software.

2. Turn off that annoying "do you want to continue box", which is actually called user account control. To do that; hit the start button, in the search box type in user accounts, when the search box brings up the user accounts in the start menu click on it. Once user accounts opens, click on "Turn User Account Control on or off". Uncheck the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer" box, then hit OK. Of course windows will ask you to continue one more time and then for a reboot. Reboot your computer and that will no pop up again.

3. This is probably the biggest thing that will speed up Vista, however you will lose the 3D look of Vista. Right click on "Computer" and go to properties. Once the system page opens click on "Advanced System Settings" on the right hand side. Then you will see three different headings on the "Advanced" tab. Under the "Performance" heading click the settings box. On the "Performance Options" window that pops up, on the "Visual Effects" tab, select the radial button next to "Adjust for best performance". Hit apply and ok. After that Vista has a more familiar look and will run a lot faster.

OF COURSE YOU COULD JUST BRING THE COMPUTER DOWN TO SABRETECH AND WE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO THIS ALL FOR YOU!!!

Just watch this report from News 10…

Happy New Year to all of our customers. THANK YOU for making 2007 a great year. We look forward to serving all of your needs in 2008 and beyond!

Are you afraid of buying a new computer because you have a lot of programs that you do not have the disks for anymore? At SabreTech consulting we can move all your programs and data to your new computer as long as the operating systems are Windows Xp or newer. So if you need a new computer, give SabreTech a call at 517-437-7150 and let us do all the work to make your new computer work for you.

This is for all those people out there who still need to run an old program, like programs for Windows 98, Windows 2000, or even people of have purchased Windows Vista and need to be able to run programs that are not compatible. Here at SabreTech we can set up your old operating systems to run on the newest hardware available. Sam or Jon can set up a virtual machine on your brand new hardware that will enable you to run the older Windows programs. While running the virtual machine you will be able to use all hardware controls on both the original operating system and the guest operating system. This can all be done without rebooting your system. So if you are wanting to replace an old machine and are worried about not being able to use your old programs....... give us a call.

I just started writing a nice little how-to on setting up a Mac fresh out of the packaging, or even re-setting one up that you had to replace the harddrive on, or are just not happy with the way it runs anymore…

Check out the How-To on my personal blog by clicking here.