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Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure

October 13th, 2008 at 9:55 pm » Comments (0)

Reader Jeanne Wright wrote me about her recent hard drive failure:
My computer just crashed and I had to have a new hard drive installed. Is there any way to get the information on my files and folders from the old hard drive? If so, where can I find someone to do [...]



Why Back Up Your Computer?

October 5th, 2008 at 9:13 pm » Comments (1)

As a long-time personal computer user, I learned the importance of backing up my data long, long ago.

There are just too many things that can go wrong when you’re working on your computer. Whether it is a hard drive that goes bad (or a floppy, in the old days), or a mental lapse on [...]



Coupon Code - Acronis True Image Home 11

September 20th, 2008 at 8:24 pm » Comments (0)

Acronis is running a 20% OFF coupon code special on their backup program Acronis True Image Home 11 during September 2008.
Just go to http://www.pcrepairsite.info/go/acronis20 and use Coupon Code ATIH20 .
If you want, you can order their “extended download time” (normal is 30 days) and/or a CD with Acronis True Image Home 11 on [...]



Data Backup versus System Backup

January 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm » Comments (0)

If you’ve been using computers for any length of time, you’ve had the problem.
Maybe you haven’t had a hard drive fail, yet, but you’ve managed to delete or overwrite one of your data files with a changed version — and immediately said “Oh, NO!”
Most people have the problem and have no way to recover a [...]



Traveling with a Computer

November 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pm » Comments (0)

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It’s the season for traveling again — are you going to take a computer on your trip? Or, are you going to [...]



New articles at Terry’s Computer Tips

October 7th, 2007 at 9:12 pm » Comments (1)

Creating Your New Documents in Word
Deleting Emails versus Really Deleting Emails
Disadvantages of Windows XP’s NTBackup Program



Backing Up Your Firefox Bookmarks

March 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm » Comments (0)

Firefox has a convenient function in its Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks / Bookmark Managerr). Once you’ve opened BookMark Manager, which opens in a new window, just click on File, Export and choose where to save the bookmarks file. By default, the file titled bookmarks.html.
Of course, if you ever need to restore the file — or to [...]



Free Dialup Internet Access - great backup solution

February 26th, 2007 at 10:04 pm » Comments (0)

I was chatting with Walter Scott, one of my local friends and a Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter reader, at lunch last week. Walter has a new notebook computer and was trying to come up with a good solution for dialup access for two purposes.
First, when he travels, he wants to have a good dialup solution [...]