Copying Internet Explorer Favorites to a Backup

Internet Explorer Favorites – we don’t want to lose them… This week, long-time subscriber E.J. wrote to ask: Terry, can you tell me how to copy my favorites from Internet Explorer to my external hard drive. Thanks E.J. That turns out to be a pretty easy task… Internet Explorer "Favorites" are simply a set of [...]

Backing Up Your Computer – Getting Started With Acronis True Image Home

Subscriber Norm was unsure how to effectively use Acronis True Image Home 2011 and wrote ome to ask about it. I don’t normally interleave responses when turning the emails into articles, but that was the cleanest way to address the issues in this article without restating all Norm’s questions in my response. Hi Terry, I [...]

Acronis True Image Special and Coupon Code

Acronis has just started a very special promotion on their backup program that I use. With each copy of Acronis True Image Home 2011 customer receives FREE copy of Plus Pack add-on till November 30, 2010. Even better, they’re offering an additional 5% OFF with coupon code 5OFFATIH2011 .

Recovering Outlook Express Email Messages

Recovering Outlook Express email messages can suddenly become a priority. If you can’t resolve the file problem, the next best bet is to restore the OE files from your Acronis True Image Home 2011 backup files. Subcriber Glen Parbery wrote this week to ask about a bad problem he had experienced with Outlook Express – [...]

Making an Incremental Backup with Acronis True Image Home

Acronis True Image Home 2010 shows an icon in the Windows Status Bar when it’s running, but not at other times. That icon allows you to stop a backup, but not to start one. So, how do you start a backup?

System Restore to the Rescue

This week, subscriber Carolyn Waterson wrote with a new problem — new, as in it had just happened… Hi Terry Problems again! I tried to check and see if you have answered this question before but on your new website, I am totally lost and cannot find the list of topics answered I’m afraid! My [...]

Why Should I Use Replicator AND Acronis True Image Home 2010?

Long-time reader Janusz Lukasiak wrote recently to point out some basic differences between Karen’s Replicator and Acronis True Image Home. I use and recommend both for backing up your data and your system, but the summary of my recommendations that’s in the newsletter doesn’t have all the details that are in my various articles on [...]

Restoring Windows With System Restore in Windows 7

Windows 7′s System Protection, the new, more accurate name for System Restore, continues the fine tradition of creating "Restore Points" for critical system files that first showed up in Windows XP. System Restore is now renamed to be the portion of System Protection that actually returns the Windows system (but not your data) to the [...]