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How (and why) I took my home office off-grid and went solar

Posted on April 29, 2024

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If you work from home you know how important it is to have a dependable power source to run your computer, printer, modem, router, lights and other essential work-related gear.

That’s why power interruptions are such a hassle, even when they are relatively short-lived.

Our local power grid isn’t the best so my neck of the woods experiences frequent outages that last anywhere from a few minutes to several hours. And every now and then, an outage can literally last for days.

This post explains what I did to avoid that inconvenience and aggravation in the future. [Read more…]

Review: Carbonite Online Backup Service

Posted on April 29, 2024

Have you ever had a laptop stolen or suffered a hard drive crash?

If so, you already know that losing your precious photos, music, Word documents and other critical files is even worse than having to replace the hardware.

If you didn’t have a current backup, you most likely lost every scrap of your irreplaceable data. That’s why always having a current backup of your hard drive on hand is absolutely critical.

But did you know that just backing up your data onto an external hard drive isn’t enough?

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6 solutions to data retrieval from hard drive

Posted on April 28, 2024

Looking for an efficient hard disk data recovery method? Do not worry.

All of our Windows 10/11 Data Recovery guides offer 6 techniques to recover data from internal and external hard drives. We’ll start with the most frequent causes of hard disk data loss, and then discuss data recovery methods. [Read more…]

Q&A: Can a broken light pole fry a computer?

Posted on April 26, 2024

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Question from Elaine: I came home from work yesterday evening and the power company was replacing a light pole in the neighbor’s yard that had been broken off by a wrecked car.

It took several hours for them to get the power back on, and when they did my ASUS desktop PC wouldn’t come on.

When I press the power button nothing happens. No noise of any kind, and no lights – nothing.

I know the outlet is working because the other items that are plugged into the same power strip are working fine.

Do you think the broken light pole fried my computer somehow? And if it did, can it be fixed? [Read more…]

Forgot Windows password: Reset PC password with ease

Posted on April 26, 2024

Why need to reset PC password?

To protect your computer and its data, people usually set a password for it. Only by entering the correct password can you bypass the login screen, otherwise, you will be blocked.

But sometimes users may need to reset their PC password for various reasons, including: [Read more…]