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Imaging Your Hard Drive

score: 95 – April 2012 – Doing a monthly image of your entire hard drive allows you to quickly get up and running in case of a bad virus infection, Windows going crazy, or hard drive failure. It provides an additional data backup as well.

Image Backups

score: 70 – November 2017 – Include complete images in your backup regimen. This also means making and being able to find rescue media.

Adding Image Backups to your routine

score: 68 – December 2013 – In addition to data backups and online backups, image backups should be standard practice. They allow you go get up and running quickly if the hard drive fails, or Windows goes nuts, or you get a virus.

Macrium Reflect V8

score: 60 – December 2021 – Macrium Reflect is an excellent safety precaution. Here's how to get the new version, both paid and free, for home and business.

Planning the transfer to your new computer

score: 60 – May 2015 – Tips for making the transfer to a new computer smooth.

Create Windows 10 installation media

score: 57 – July 2020 – I explain and recommend making two emergency boot disks for your computer. One for your image backup program, the other for Windows. New Windows installation disks should be made after each major feature update.

Macrium Image Guardian

score: 54 – October 2017 – Macrium Reflect has a new Image Guardian that protect your images from Ransomware attacks. Also, the free version is now available for single commercial workstations.

Recycling Computers

score: 52 – August 2020 – Before you recycle your computer, you should remove the private data from it. But how is this done? I cover both SSD and HDD drives and wiping it entirely, or just your data so it can be given to someone with the OS and some software intact.

Check your backups

score: 52 – April 2020 – If you haven't checked your backup recently, assume it is not working! I review three kinds of backups and how to quickly and easily check whether each is working.

RansomWare Protection

score: 52 – September 2019 – The dangers of Ransomware and some things you can do to reduce your vulnerability.

Additional expenses that come along with a new computer

score: 52 – December 2014 – When you buy a new computer, the additional expenses are often as much or more than the computer. In addition to the new box, what other things must you consider and budget for?

Computer Maintenance Basics

score: 52 – February 2014 – How to perform all the monthly maintenance tasks needed to keep your computer safe and profitable.

TreeSize free

score: 44 – October 2019 – Treesize is a program that will analyze any drive or folder, including mapped network drives, and show you what is taking up the most space.

Controlling Your Backups

score: 38 – January 2018 – What you need to do to make sure your data is being backed up properly.

Backup Check

score: 30 – January 2023 – A backup that isn't checked, is not a backup. You need to know where your files are stored and be sure the important ones are backed up.

Layered Security for 2021

score: 30 – January 2021 – Protecting yourself and your office or home from Internet miscreants, requires a multi-level approach. There is no simple silver bullet. There are layers of risk management that need to be addressed.

Activate Active Hours

score: 30 – January 2020 – Setup Windows 10 active hours to keep Microsoft from rebooting and installing updates when you want to work.

Choosing a Notebook computer

score: 30 – August 2019 – What are the questions you should consider before choosing a laptop computer? What are your options. What variables should be considered?

Security Basics

score: 30 – November 2018 – What is the minimum that every user should absolutely do when engaged with the Internet? This article will explain the absolute minimum. Rather like a drivers test. If you don't do these things, you shouldn't be allowed on the Internet superhighway.