I don’t know about you, but I like to keep my files local and not in the cloud. That means, I need to maintain regular backups to ensure I don’t lose my financials and other data I’ve maintained electronically over a couple of decades. My desktop has three hard drives, a system drive, a media […]
Personally, I like my desktop set up in a certain way. But, every now and then, either a windows update or a driver update will upset that apple cart and all of my desktop icons will be stacked in alphabetical order in columns along the left side of the screen. Then, I’d have to rearrange […]
I don’t know about you, but I use a Windows workstation while at home and when away from home, I take a Windows laptop. Both are connected to my network when at home. Similar applications are installed on both my workstation and my laptop, including MS Outlook, so I can handle all my different email […]
There comes a time when you need to change out a drive or you want to sell or donate your computer, but don’t want to leave any personal data behind. You see, when you “delete” files, they’re not really deleted upon emptying the trash can. They’re still on the drive, but they’re just not listed […]
Do you love listening to your favorite music while working at your PC, or from PC connected to your home entertainment center? Do you hate all those ‘system’ sounds that get blasted away at you each time a new email arrives in your inbox, or any time you PC wants to relay a message to […]
Have you ever wanted to print out a list of files in a given folder? More specifically, have you ever wanted to print or save a list of your MP3 files along with all the ID3 information? Well I did and went looking for a way to do that. We spend a lot of time […]
In my first article, I talked about using a separate drive to store your system backups and that if your PC didn’t have a second drive in your PC/Laptop, that you should consider buying a USB drive. That being the case, this article presumes you’ve taken care of that task and now you’re ready to […]
