How to Backup Your Data Using Microsoft’s FREE “SyncToy”

How to Backup Your Data Using Microsoft’s FREE “SyncToy”

Overview If you’ve ever had the misfortune of a computer crash, then you know first hand the importance of a good backup to recover your important information.  Unfortunately, knowing that we should backup our data regularly, and actually doing it are two different things.  These days with the wide availability of inexpensive external hard drives, ......

6 Best Backup Tools

6 Best Backup Tools

In my previous article, Are You Backing Up Your Data, I talked about the importance of data backups and what needed to be backed-up.  Here are my choices for the 6 best Windows backup tools to help you get started. Free Options SyncToy 2.1 As its name implies, SyncToy is a synchronization tool designed to assist you in ......

5 Best Free System Restore Tools

5 Best Free System Restore Tools

As you know, backing up your data is a great way to minimize your losses after a computer catastrophe, but what about getting your system back up and running?  Here are my top 5 options for FREE system restore tools you should check out.  Macrium Reflect Free Macrium Reflect Free is, as the name implies, the ......

Are You Backing Up Your Data?

Are You Backing Up Your Data?

Recently one of my clients frantically called me to see if I could help her save all of her files. Since she was running out of space on the laptop, she had been using an older external hard drive to store all of her pictures. Unfortunately that hard drive finally gave out. She was devastated, ......

5 FREE Microsoft Programs to Check Out

5 FREE Microsoft Programs to Check Out

“Free” and “Microsoft” are two words you don’t hear used in the same sentence very often.  Recently, however, I came across five great Microsoft applications worth checking out–and you certainly can’t beat the price! PAINT.NET This is a really good image and photo editing program that has a great user interface and is quite easy to ......

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