Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Tech Tip of the Week - December 8th

My Chromebook is acting weird, frozen, not working… what do I do?

Chrome Updates: Google often updates Chrome and will indicate that with an arrow icon on the bottom corner of the Chromebooks. There will also be an orange hamburger icon up at the top right corner of your browser when you need to update. If you see this icon has turned orange click on it and update. It will only take a few seconds.












Power Cycling: This term is just a fancy tech way of saying restart your computer! Restarting your computer will fix 80% of the common problems and this is true for Chromebooks as well. If your Chromebook is dead and you cannot get it to do anything, it is probably frozen. Hold down the power button for about 10 seconds or so until it powers down. Then after waiting a few seconds hit the power button again and it should start up.











Here is a video to show you about this: