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Probably due to the fact that I use computers a lot and have learnt a reasonable amount about them over the years, I get asked about how to do various computer related tasks quite a lot. Most questions are fairly easy to answer, and the answers are also reasonably easy to find on the Internet as well. So this section is a collection of computer related information and articles from around the Internet that will hopefully assist if you are looking for computer related information. This is a fairly comprehensive site with lots of reasonably basic but useful information about various aspects of computers. One important page to take note of is http://www.pccomputernotes.com/esd/esd.htm which is all about ESD (Electro Static Discharge) - one of the biggest enemies of computers. It always amazes me how often computer "experts" or people who say they know lots about computers open up the case of their computer and take no precautions against ESD whatsoever when for example, they fit new cards. The fact is that any circuit board not protected from ESD WILL fail. http://www.pccomputernotes.com/esd/esd.htm explains about ESD and what precautions you can take to protect your computer.
BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER Your hard drive WILL fail. Not it MAY fail, but it WILL fail. Sooner or later; how would you deal with that situation? How many megabytes of valuable data would you lose if that happened? What would happen if your computer got infected by a virus and you had to reformat the hard drive? Even the most robust virus defences can get beaten sometimes. What would happen to your data in this situation? There are several different ways to back up your data, but they all involve copying your data to an external store of some sort - either CD, DVD or an external hard disk drive. The cost of external hard drives is coming down fast. A 500gb drive is now less than £100, backup software £20 - £50. That's a small price to pay for avoiding the hours of anguish caused by a hard drive failure or other situation that involves potential loss of data. Here's some more information about how to go about backing up your computer: http://www.basiccomputerinformation.ca/backing-up-files/
MOVING OUTLOOK EXPRESS EMAIL FILES FROM ONE PC TO ANOTHER This process is reasonably straight forward if you do it in a stage by stage way and think about what you are doing! Sounds simple, but it can go wrong if you don't. I have written some instructions to tell you how to do it. Download them here as a PDF file. For more information on computers and how to protect your date, go to www.pc-speak.co.uk
07 February 2008 06:58:37
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