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Written by Jenny Flex
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 If you are like many people who use Windows and Microsoft Office, there is a good chance that you also use Outlook, and that you use it pretty hard. For many people Outlook is not just their current email discussions. Outlook has their address book, their contact list, their calendar and their old but still important email conversations that need to be saved for one reason or another.
Sometimes it is useful to be able to move this data from one place to another, or to simply have a backup of it for safekeeping. One common task that occurs is that a person purchases a new computer and may just need to quickly move their email from one system to another. There are steps you can take to backup and restore your Outlook information and this article tells the basics. |
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Top Disaster Recovery Tips |
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Written by Jenny Flex
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 Disaster Recovery is something that many people and (unfortunately) some businesses don’t think about until it’s too late. Only when disaster has struck and data or computer access has been lost do they think about how they will get back up and running with their computer systems. Far better is to consider how you will recover from a disaster well before the disaster happens. Have you ever thought about the myriad of problems that can happen to your computer system? Despite all the electronics, many parts of a computer are still based on mechanics and these can break down.
Have you ever dropped your laptop or notebook computer or do you tote your netbook from place to place? If you should pick up a computer virus, who knows what the damage could be to your important files. Maybe your kids accidentally deleted those irreplaceable photos of the once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Europe from two years ago. And as terrible as it is to consider, businesses can be vandalized by a single disgruntled employee. Or perhaps that game you installed to help your child learn their fractions made a few more changes to your system than you expected. Here are some hints that can make your disaster recovery plan an effective form of insurance against computer system or data loss. |
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Windows 7 System Recovery Options |
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Written by Jenny Flex
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 Perhaps you have been poking around your Windows 7 computer and came across this thing that’s called System Recovery Options. Or, perhaps more likely, you have come up with a problem that is verging on a disaster where something on your system isn’t working correctly and that name seems like something that could be useful. In either case you have hit on something that contains a variety of software programs built into Windows 7 to help with some aspect of disaster recovery of a computer system that isn’t working correctly. These set of tools are installed on the hard drive of a Windows 7 computer and can also be found on your Windows 7 installation disc. If you’ve created your own System Recovery disk, these can also be placed onto that as well. |
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