Archive for the ‘Backing Up’ Category


How To Backup Outlook Express Emails

Dear Computer Lady, Two years ago, my pc crashed and I lost all the email folders and the files in each of the many folders. I was devasted. Now I have a 2 year old dell which i like and I have a lot of outlook express folders with files within each one. I would [...]

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Upgrading from XP to Windows 7

Dear Computer Lady, After getting your emails for several years now, I have a predicament I haven’t seen yet. My wife’s computer “bit the dust” so to speak. I did religiously have her HD backed up. My problem is her new computer has Win 7 Home Premium, and her old one had XP. How can [...]

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Mozy Saved My Recipe File!

This week, I had a computer problem that I want to tell you about, because it illustrates how suddenly and unexpectedly you can lose important data on your computer. As you know, I have been telling you about my new recipe program, Cook’n from DVO software, and how great it works. I have begun the [...]

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Can’t Read Backup CDs

Dear Computer Lady, I have an HP Pavillion Vista Windows desktop. I recently made back-up discs. I then restored my PC to the factory settings. Now I want to download the back-up discs I made but they won`t even open. They are on zipped folders and I don`t know how to open them. A lot [...]

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Trusting Carbonite

Dear Computer Lady, I saw where you use Carbonite back-up. My question, how do we know that the company can’t/won’t use our information that we send to the backup site? I seem to get virus more than I should and would like to try it, but want to know about their security. Thanks, Shirley

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How To Backup Programs

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question, I am not the greatest on the computer but I almost lost everything on mine as my computer supposedly died on me as the hard drive went. The one fixing was going to replace it but while trying to save things he was able to repair it, but [...]

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Automatic Online Backup

If you are having a hard time remembering to make your backups on a regular schedule, then you need something that will automatically do the backing up for you. This is what the second type of backups that I use, an automatic, online backup service, does for me.

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How To Use Flash Drive

Dear Computer Lady, Just love this site, I have learned so much about computers thanks to you. My question is about backing up files with a flash drive. I know recently you gave instructions for the right size to buy but I lost it. So could you send those instructions on how to determine the [...]

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How To Do a Complete Backup

Dear Computer Lady, I run vista and was wondering how to do a complete backup Thank You Juanita

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Copy iTunes to New Computer

Dear Computer Lady, I want to transfer itunes from my old computer to new. Have Seagate external hard drive but cant work out how to do transfer. Robert

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