Subscriber Raman Champaneri wrote about a hard drive problem that he was experiencing: I have a PC with Pentium 4 and Windows7. I get the following message: Boot disk failure, insert system disk and press enter. This happens from time to time. I turn the computer off and on a few times and it starts [...]
A Look at Acronis True Image Home 2012
Acronis has released their latest version of their hard drive imaging backup program, Acronis True Image Home 2012 (ATIH 2012). I wasted no time in purchasing my new copies. Although I could have upgraded at a significant discount (40%), I preferred to purchase new licenses for ATIH 2012, so that I had copies for additional [...]
How to Copy IE Favorites to Another Computer
I answered a question in a computer help mailing list this week about Internet Explorer Favorites. The computer user had just upgraded to a new Windows 7 computer and he wanted to move his Favorites to the new computer. One way that he could do this would be to use the Export and Import functions [...]
Sync’ing Data Between Two Computers
Subscriber Allan Pendlebury wrote about sync’ing data between two computers: Hello Terry I have become a little paranoid about having my personal files bouncing around in cyberspace (Dropbox) and purchased an Iomega Home Media Network Drive. I relied on Dropbox to synchronize files (mostly stock trades on Libre Office). I have a laptop and PC; [...]
The Anti-virus/Anti-malware Upgrade Went Bad…
Sometimes, the question is more challenging and ultimately requires the software manufacturer’s tech support to resolve. James Biddle wrote with a serious problem that was caused when he tried to update Microsoft Security Essentials… I have one for you. In Windows 7, I was asked to upgrade Microsoft’s Microsoft Security Essentials to the latest version. [...]
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