Acronis has now released their latest version of their hard drive backup utility — Acronis True Image Home 2009. We had some hints that something was coming. The new version is here…but do we need it? First, what’s an image backup and why should I use one? Tech Tip An “image backup” is effectively your [...]
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Reader Steve Sturgill wrote to ask about screen freeze problems he was having: Mr. Stockdale, My OS is XP, my ISP is MSN and I connect through broadband. My problem is, any time I right click, as in attempting to access dropdown menus, my screen freezes. Also I am unable to click on any of [...]
Recently, Agnes Brach wrote to me with a question that, eventually, applies to all of us: Hello Terry, I enjoy your newsletter very much. I have a question that has been on my mind for a while. I have an old computer which i would like to recycle, but have absolutely no idea how to [...]
I hope it’s just coincidence, but I have just suffered my second hard drive failure with Window XP SP2 — in two months. Fortunately, I can avoid the cost of a hard drive recovery service, since I back up my data nightly across my network to my Linux box. Both failures were internal hard drives. [...]
Back in the days when I made backups of individual files on floppy diskettes, I had learned what I called Murphy’s Law of Backups. This was: “You will always need one more backup copy than you have.” This taught me the importance of backing up my computer. Ads by Terry Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall Two-way [...]