There are two types of computer users in the world today: those that backup and those that have never lost an important document. I would consider myself very diligent in regards to maintaining proper and up to date backups of everything that is important. I have both on and off site copies with both repositories [...]
Do you backup your files? I’ll give you the benefit and assume that you backup your important documents and photos, at the very least. Personally, while better than nothing, backing up particular files is not enough - not when storage is so cheap. Instead, I recommend you backup your entire Windows installation because you never [...]
I trial a bunch of software throughout the week looking for those hidden gems, both for this site and for my other profession. The honest reality, a fair bit of software I download and install doesn’t live up to it’s website’s billing - often times unable to perform all if it’s supposed feature set. No [...]
Do you suspect your hard drive is about to pack it in? If you are looking for a free Windows utility that will quickly determine if your hard drive is falling ill, Ariolic Disk Scanner might do the trick. Disk Scanner does a read-only scan of the entire disk/partition; visually flagging trouble areas with a [...]
Like any responsible computer user, I maintain a backup set that contains all my important files so when - not if - something disastrous happens I’m covered. There are two groups of computer users: those that backup their data and those that have never lost an irreplaceable file. Let’s just say you don’t want to [...]