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Entries Tagged as 'Backing up'

Preparing for Disaster

August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off

As we are all experiencing, disasters, natural, mechanical and man-made, do happen. Let’s not wait any longer, you need to have a backup plan for when a disaster happens to you. Since I deal with technology, I am going to leave it to you to get food, to be prepared to help yourself, family and [...]

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Tags: Backing up · Soap Box

LoJack computer tracing and security software

May 11th, 2011 · Comments Off

Recently one of our customers had a break in and all the laptops stolen, about 10 days later, the crooks returned and did the same thing. Within two weeks the local news had a story about the number of break-ins in this little town.

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Tags: Backing up · Hardware · Security

The Complete backup guide for Windows XP and older editions

July 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I have written numerous articles on backing up and give more than my share of talks on the subject. Today I want to give you a PDF of all that in one free download. It is over 1.25 MB so give it a minute to open. The Complete backup guide for Windows XP and older [...]

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Backing up the Registry

January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

The registry is the DNA of a computer. Just like with human DNA you must be very careful when dealing with it. Without being prideful, you must follow my listed steps carefully or very bad things will happen. For a PDF with images of this article, download it here! To back up the registry go [...]

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Windows Home Server

November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have been personally using Window Home server for about a year now. What is Home Server you ask, good question. Windows Home Server is an Operating System that allows one computer to become a hub of sorts. Not a hub like a switch but a media hub. It is designed to store all of [...]

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