Advice Blog

Are you clicking on your computer and then waiting… and waiting? And it always seems to happen when you’re most stressed, facing the biggest deadline. If a Windows 11 computer that once felt fast has gradually become slow and unresponsive, there is usually no need to replace it. In a lot of cases, the following simple steps can help speed a machine back up to where it should be.

At PC Mac Fix, we’ve seen the lot - spilt tea or a can of drink, a sudden downpour, a child with a water bottle — however it happened, watching liquid pool across your keyboard is a head-in-hands moment. Despite our best intentions, spilling liquid on a laptop is something that our engineers see time and again. The good news is that there are some simple and immediate steps to take:

You plug in your laptop, see the charging icon appear, and leave it for a while but come back to an unmoved battery icon. Laptops which don’t charge properly are something we see a lot of – its also one of the most annoying reasons for a device being out of order. Here are some of the possible causes of a non-charging laptop….

Recently, a few our clients have commented on the high price of RAM, so we thought we’d take the chance to explain global price pressure in detail here. If you’ve checked the prices of a new laptops, or component upgrades and been surprised by the cost, you’re not imagining things. Since late 2025, the world has been living through what analysts have taken to calling “RAMageddon” — a memory chip shortage severe enough that manufacturers are warning of double-digit price increases across nearly every category of device.