Ask The Computer Lady

Dear Computer Lady,
Would you recommend software program for back-ups of my hard drive I’ve been told that Acronis is the best but I find it a little hard to understand. I got CMS’backup software called BounceBack Ultimate when I bought the external drive. I have had a lot of trouble installing it and aren’t [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
We put windows 7 on my moms computer and we used windows easy transfer. We loaded it on a personal media drive from HP, and made sure it worked on her computer (it had XP before) and it had so we put 7 on it. 7 runs great, but those files we put [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I got a new computer and I want to know how to take my embroidery off the floppy disk and put them on a cd disk. My computer is window vista.
Wanda

Now that you have your favorites backed up to a data stick, you can restore them to your original computer, or put them on another computer that you might be using at home or work. Here is how you restore your favorites files on a computer.

Dear Computer Lady,
I am questioning you as to how to back up my “Favorites” I’ve never done it even though I lost everything when my hard drive crashed a few months ago. I now have an HP laptop with XP and should learn how to back up the favorites. I do backup my WORD [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I have a PC with Windows XP. Presently I’m using an external back up ION drive to backup my data. I’m looking for a device that will back up my data automatically so I don’t have to remember to do it. What would be good options that won’t break [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
Thanks for a newsletter written simply and in understandable language. In answer to your question of what I would like to know about computer back up:
1. Is it necessary to back up the entire hard drive, or just documents?
2. If not, how would I know what programs I currently have on my computer [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I have a question regarding the SanDisk cruzer mini 128MB.
Received it as a gift with no instructions, so I don’t know how to use it.  I know there is a place on the computer to plug it in on both of my computers.  There is a disk drive for it too but that’s [...]

 
Dear Computer Lady,
I have a problem and hope you can help me.  I have over 700 contacts in the Microsoft outlook in my old computer and it is getting slow so I have just got a new computer and would like to transfer all these contacts to the new one without having to type them [...]

 
Dear Computer Lady,
I have been using Carbonite on a trial basis. Many of my important files are in TreePad which is not in My Documents, but in Program Files on my computer. How can I get Carbonite to back these files up? I tried dragging the whole TreePad folder to My Documents in Windows Explorer, [...]