Welcome to Skoglund Technical Services.  We provide computer hardware and software installation, troubleshooting, small business server and network infrastructure installation. 

We can provide you with a robust hardware firewall that is significantly more capable than the 'built-in' firewalls within common DSL and cable modems.  Please consider if your home and/or business data is worth losing to hardware failure or computer virus activity.  We can install a perimeter firewall that filters or denies all unwanted inbound traffic, scans all traffic for all known viruses, and protects your children from adult or other inappropriate websites. 

Skoglund Technical Services are also capable of installation, setup, and routine maintenance of servers that provide network shares with automated backups, database server, web server, virtual private networking (VPN) between geographically separated locations, and other network services.

When was the last time your computer became unusably slow or had a hardware failure that resulted in the loss of important data including family photos, business related letters and spreadsheets, price estimates and quotes, tax data, and financial records?  Even losing your list of email contacts and web bookmarks/favorites can be debilitating.  

Please call us or stop by to discuss how Nathan and Lisa Skoglund can make sure YOU are happier.

People ask me frequently if thier  machine is worth fixing.  I'm never sure what to say to that...because it doesn't really seem the right question.  What needs to be answered is this:  Will this machine continue to make me happy and fulfill my needs if you fix it?  That is a very different question.

Your needs may be as simple as email and some internet, or it could be full time publishing work and corporate data backups.  On the big end of that, you probably already know what you need and you've already bought it.  If you are on the other end...well then we need to consider it more closely.  'Only for internet and email' is not a small thing.  Yes, any computer can do it.  No, your old Windows 95, 98, Me, or 2000 computer should not be doing it anymore.  If it is still doing it on a regular basis, then each day is a  milestone just like a car getting another 10,000 miles past 200k.   Unfortunately you are also doing it without the equivilent of safety belts, steel belted radial tires, crumple zones, and anti-lock brakes.  Except in special circumstances, the Windows 9x machines are not worth fixing because they just can't do everything they need to do.

December 31st of 2010 will also be the last day I will recommend fixing Windows XP machines.  Officially, Skoglund Technical Services will no longer support Windows XP in 2011.  Some machines are definitely worth pulling the data off -- your pictures, your documents, etc -- but not really worth fixing.  We promise you will be happier with a modern operating system on a modern machine.  Security is better.  Visually it is better.  Programs are significantly better.  Stability is better.  Networking is better.

You will be happier with a new computer that has some of your old data on it.  Skoglund Technical Services actually LOSES money doing this -- We make more money fixing problems with computers than we do on any hardware.  We feel, however, that this will make you happier.  When you are happy we are happy.