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Folks often ask me what they should do to keep their PC working smoothly and keep their photos and other data secure from loss.
Without exception, I always offer the following recommendations: [Read more…]
Question from Barry: Rick, I desperately need to create a System Restore Point for last Monday.
What happened was I downloaded a couple of torrent files last Tuesday and now my Windows 10 computer is all messed up.
I tried doing a System Restore back to the previous Monday, but the oldest Restore Point I see is from 4 days ago. Is there a way to create one for last Monday? [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
• Why Time Machine should be your Mac’s primary backup tool
• Q&A: Can I remove ‘web results’ from my Windows searches?
• Scam alert: Beware the fake PayPal Tech Support scam on Twitter
• Is bottled water really better than tap water? The answer might surprise you.
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Question from Stephanie: I’m the office manager for a medium-sized wholesale floral distributor.
Including myself, we have nine people working in our office, and each of us have identical Dell Business desktop computers.
These computers came with Windows 7 Pro but I upgraded all of them to Windows 10 bit back when the upgrade was free.
I’ve been creating weekly System Image backups for each computer but I just learned that I need to create a System Repair Disc too so if anything happens I’ll be able to boot the PC to the Recovery Options screen.
My question is do I need to create a separate System Repair Disc for each of the nine computers or will the same one work for all of them? [Read more…]
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Have you updated your PC to Windows 10 from an earlier version of Windows at some time in the past?
If so, there’s a very good chance that the System Restore utility was turned off during the update process.
What’s more, I’ve seen plenty of PCs that came from the factory with Windows 10 that had the System Restore utility disabled.
As you probably know, System Restore is a powerful tool that can help you get your Windows machine back into working order if something ever goes haywire with your Windows installation.
When turned on, System Restore (usually) makes it easy to roll your Windows installation back to a previous (working) state if something ever goes wrong during a program installation or some other serious issue arises.
In other words, this awesome tool can really can get you out of rather serious jams. [Read more…]