Software: Free GFI Backup Software (Home Edition)

Windows 7 has a purty damned fairly decent built-in data backup program, but it aint as full-featured as the most of the commercial application that kin be got on the market.

If you're lookin fer a Windows based backup application what's more robust then what comes with the gall-durned OS, check out GFI Backup Home Edition.

Currently its reddy fer free. See the followin site fer more product infermation an' links to download the durned software.

Windows 7: Windows Recovery Environment

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) serves up ya with tools fer fixin a non-bootin newfangled contraption. In Windows 7, Windows RE is hooked up on yer PC's system disk, so iffen there's a problem you kin boot on inta this here environment an' attempt to fix it.

To access the Windows 7 Recovery Environment, reboot yer PC an' atter the gall-durned BIOS screen has completed, press an' hold the F8 key (you gotta do this here 'for the "Startin Windows" animation begins). From the system troubleshootin options screen, grab the "Repair Your Computer" option.


After a few loadin screens you'll be asked to log on with an head-hancho-class account. Finally you'll be presented with them thar rig Recovery Options screen.



The rig Recovery Options winder serves up ya access to the followin repair/recovery tools.

• Startup Repair: Automatically repairs common boot problems that kin keep Windows from startin correctly.
• System Restore: serves up access to the System Restore feature from outside of Windows. Allows ya to restores yer Windows rig files to a previous state.
• System likeness Recovery: Restores a previously outfit likeness backup.
• Windows Memory Diagnostic: Reboots yer doohicky an' loads memory diagnostic utility that scans yer computer's RAM fer problems.
• Command Prompt: this here is an high-falutin feature that allows system head-hanchos access to a standard Windows command prompt.
  

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Windows 7: Securely Erasin Data Usin the Cipher Tool

When y'all shoot dead files from the hard drive, that doesn't mean the data has been destroyed. thar are lotsa programs out thar that kin recover shot dead files. thar are also a great of programs that kin securely erase files, an' even whole hard drives.

What happens if'n ya shoot dead sensitive files, an' aim to make sure they aint recoverable. thar is some sorta command line tool that will allow y'all do it this, it's called the Cipher command.

Warnin: This operation overwrites the selected files with
random characters, so they aint be recoverable atter the operation be performed.

• Open a command prompt with high-up privileges (in them thar commense menu search field type CMD.EXE an' press Ctrl+Shift+Enter)
• In the command prompt, type cipher /w [drive]:\[folder], substitutin the drive letter an' folder path fer [drive] an' [folder].

For example, to erase the contents of a folder named "Classified" in the Documents folder of a user named Ted on the C: drive, y'all would type "cipher /w C:\Users\Ted\Documents\Classified"

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Features of the Toshiba libretto W100:

• Run Windows 7 Home Premium
• Dual 7” diagonal multi-touch screens
• Weighs under couple ought pounds
• Wireless-N an' Bluetooth® v2.1
• Webcam

Windows 7: Pin a File to the Taskbar

One of Windows 7's newfangled features be the ability to pin applications to the taskbar. What happens if'n ya aim to pin a document to some application in the taskbar.

To do this, from the desktop or the Windows Explorer, drag a file to a application in the Windows 7 taskbar (Here's an example fer ya: drag a .DOC file to the Word icon). Then to access that document, all ya gotta do is right-click the program's icon an' grab the durned file.