There’s a place in your computer life for using file to file backup — but not instead of full drive image backups. But for things like photos, music, documents and videos, keeping a quickly accessible backup folder is a good idea. But if you’ve ever tried copying, say 14GB of data from one place to another in Windows,… Read More »
Macrium Reflect An easy-to-use Drive Image backup program Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit 31.7MB download I must say first off that the name Macrium Reflect does not do much for me. It sounds like something I need to take a pill to get rid of – or something which might, if it gets… Read More »
Despite the fact that this program has virtually no documentation, help files or instructions, we think it’s a fun program for which you’ll find many uses. What this program does (and all it does) is create a flippable e-book from any text file. So if you can open Notepad and type something (and save a file) you can… Read More »
A while ago — quite a while ago — we recommended Secunia PSI to keep software patched and updated. Unfortunately — and we’re sorry to say — Secunia has become quite a resource hog. Yes, and CNet has a software update too — and you’ll be wise to avoid it. But keeping your software patched and updated is… Read More »
Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for years I’ve written… Read More »
Process Hacker Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 32bit and 64bit operating systems Download size: 1.7MB If you’ve been using Windows very long, then you know that Task Manager is your friend. You can use Task Manager to kill frozen programs, to do a faux reboot , to see which programs are eating up your resources, or… Read More »