By Bob Jones, on July 8th, 2010
A number of programs want you to close all running programs before you install them. Serif software such as DrawPlus and PhotoPlus are very good examples of this. If you had problems installing or running their software you could go to their forum for help. The first question they would ask is "Did you do a clean install?". To them this means did you close all running programs before you installed the Serif software. With their older software I found this made a big difference and I still close everything before I install Serif software and many others.
Closing all running programs can be a hassle. You can close some of them at the right end of the task bar at the bottom of the screen. You can close anything and everything by using the Alt/Ctrl/Delete combination and then trying to decide what is safe to close and what is going to kill your system. A much safer way is to use End-IT-All. The link I provide is to Softonic.com but you can find a lot of places to download it by Googling "enditall free download" You will notice on Softonic’s site you can get it free or pay for it depending on what you click on.
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By Bob Jones, on July 8th, 2010
This is the third in a series about the fantastic Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery. The first post was Recover Data From A Computer That Won’t Boot and the second was Backup your system, Windows, Linux and others with Acronis. In this one I will install Acronis True Image Home 2009 and describe some of it’s features.
So, let’s install it to LapDancer (my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop). I have started the computer and am running Windows 7 which is very similar to Windows Vista only MUCH BETTER.
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By Bob Jones, on July 8th, 2010
In the last post I described how to recover data from a computer that wouldn’t boot. My next post will be Installing and using Acronis True Image Home.
Now I will cover using Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery to backup a complete Windows or Linux system and it should work on just about any computer system or disk that you want.
I have already created a backup of my Ubuntu 9.04 system. I have my operating system in one partition, my "Home" in another partition and of course there is the "Swap" partition. I also backed up my "Data" drive while I was at it. I did a backup of all four at the same time. On looking at my backup file I see that it also did a backup of the "MBR and Track 0" which I didn’t ask for. Looks pretty good to me.
Let’s get on with actually doing a backup of LapDancer, my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, and creating a step by step set of instructions. I will create this document as I actually do the steps. You can put the backup on a DVD or other storage media. I have an empty external hard drive so I am going to use that for this project.
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By Bob Jones, on July 8th, 2010
I was at a friend of mines house a few months ago and found out that her old Windows XP computer wouldn’t boot so she had decided to buy a new laptop computer. This seemed logical to me since it was pretty old. The problem was, all of her genealogy data, photos, documents, etc. were on the "C" Drive and she didn’t have a backup. She had checked at a local Best Buy and it was going to be expensive to recover the data.
Old Bob to the rescue. I had just bought a copy of Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery because of a hard drive crash myself. While reading the paper that came with it I had noticed that you could use the CD to recover from system problems. I wasn’t sure but it may be able to help her. Of course the first thing I tried to do was recover the system but the computer had a bunch of .dll files that were bad and every time I downloaded and fixed one (using my computer) another would show up as bad. It didn’t take much of that before I made up my mind to try Acronis True Image Home. I’m very happy to say that it worked great. I recovered all of her data and put it on a DVD for her. After I was sure it was safe, I reinstalled her Windows XP system and she now has two computers. I don’t have to tell you that she was a Very Happy Young Lady.
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By Bob Jones, on July 8th, 2010
I have been using Xmarks since the early days when it was called Foxmarks and it only supported Mozilla Firefox browser (for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux). Shortly after they started supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer (for Windows only) they changed their name to Xmarks. Now they also support Safari (for Mac OS X only) and have a version for Google Chrome. I am using them all except the version for Safari and haven’t had any problems with them.
Xmarks is so easy to use and works so well that I believe anyone that uses more than one browser or computer should use Xmarks. It will make your life so much easier when it comes to keeping your bookmarks (shortcuts) organized that you will never be without it.
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