When we think of security software, we usually think of antivirus, firewall, antispyware and antispam software. But, what other kind of software is security software? Backup software, of course. We need to make backup copies of our important data. That data may be financial, such as your checkbook in Quicken, or your spreadsheet tracking your [...]

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 this? Needless to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]