Lets Consider a realistic situation, where you improperly shutdown your Windows 7 based computer system. But later when you attempt to start your system, the system does not boot and only shows a black screen with an error message that the system was not properly shutdown. As you are not able to bypass the black [...]
I have on my desktop a folder named letters. In it there are no letters. What I have filled it with are all the hundreds of notes and drafts I write everyday for my work. This folder exists because I am always afraid I will delete a file I need and have no way to [...]
Reformatting your hard drive does not automatically remove previously stored data from the drive. Should the security of your computer be compromised, it would be very simple for someone to reconstruct and clone all of your private information. To insure the security of your data, your hard drive will need to be given a disk [...]
If anyone ever tries to tell you that their program for data recovery will scan for and restore files on both Windows and Linux operating systems, immediately pass on any programs they are selling. Linux relies upon an entirely different file allocation system than Windows using what are called superblocks instead of partitions. Windows software [...]
Last night I was at a major electronics chain and considered purchasing a miniature laptop that came equipped with the Linux operating system. While Linux is a bit bare bones when compared to Windows, I have to admit that the simplicity involved does create a system that is super fast. I did wonder however that [...]
Depending on your degree of computer usage, you may never have a situation where you accidentally delete a partition of your hard drive. If your computer hard drive is currently only divided into two areas, one for the Windows operating system and the other for data stored. Accidentally deleting a partition may never occur. Still, [...]
Seventy five percent of the computers in the world use an XP or older Windows operating system. Bundled with that operating system is Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer includes Outlook Express email. Outlook Express is an excellent small email client and when one considers that it basically is free as part of Windows, it is [...]
Microsoft Outlook is the most popular mail client software program in the world. It supports use for mail messages, tasking, contacts, meetings, notes and logs. All of these use the .PST extension. The use of this specific extension for all of the Outlook file tasks is a bit of a mixed blessing. It allows for [...]
You have just finished spending four hours working on a report. Every few minutes as you have worked on the project, you have been hitting the Save button. Now you have completed the project and want to close the file. You right-click your mouse, scroll down to Save As, and absentmindedly hit Delete instead. “No [...]