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Up until now, backing up my PC has been a very onerous task. I had to use multiple DVDs, without any real confidence that I would be able to restore files should disaster ever strike. And apparently disk drive failure and data loss are very frequent occurrences.

I recently heard about Carbonite on the radio. Carbonite is a new backup service that runs a small backup application on your PC. It gradually backups up all the files that you need backing up and once this is complete it continues to backup files as they change. This ensures that you always have … Continue Reading

I never realized how much I used Windows Explorer until yesterday.

For some, yet to be discovered, reason every time I opened Windows Explorer (or the Control Panel) for that matter I got a “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem” error. This was followed by a “DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem” error. After this my computer completely hanged and all I could do was switch it off, check disk etc.

I found that I could still use Windows Explorer by just ignoring the error window, but it seemed sluggish and I was just putting off the inevitable computer hang. Having … Continue Reading