From the Repair Bench

Hard-won advice from 20+ years running a UK computer-repair shop - the mistakes, failures and fixes I see on the bench every week.

Liquid on Your Laptop? Why the Bag-of-Rice Trick Isn’t a Repair

The Laptop That Runs Hot, Loud and Slow — Because It’s Full of Dust

The Fake ‘Microsoft’ Warning We Remove Every Week — and the One Thing It’s Really After

That Faint Clicking From Your Laptop? Stop What You’re Doing — Here’s Why

The ‘Slow, Ready for the Bin’ Laptop That Usually Just Needs One Cheap Part

I've Repaired Computers for 20 Years, and This Is the Backup Mistake I See Most

Updated automatically as new articles publish. Last rebuilt: 01 July 2026.