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We have heard horror stories that upgrading Vista to 7 went wrong and the user was often left with a faulty system. There is a proven method being circulated on the internet to perform a clean installation with the Windows 7 Upgrade DVD.

 

First if you are still able to do so, try running Windows 7 upgrade advisor to check if your PC has the hardware to run Windows 7. Next save and backup important data on the HDD as you would normally do when reinstalling Windows. This how-to shows how to save and restore your office settings (if any) using the Save My Settings Wizard.

Then boot from the Windows 7 DVD and do a clean install, i.e. at the hard drive section, you choose to delete and format the hard drive. Remember to choose the correct Windows edition. When you are asked to enter the product key, do not enter, as your product key won't allow a clean install. You will be given a 30-day trial because of that.

After the installation is done. Don't install anything yet. Do an upgrade install (on top of the new windows 7 itself!). This time you enter the product key and you will have a working and registered Windows. Restore your backup after that.

Long hours of work and improper posture before a computer could cause injuries and disorders to the muscle and nervous system in the arm and neck. The symptoms are usually weakness and pain that is usually spread over many areas and gets worse with movement. Using text autocompletion software such as TypingAid and BlitzType can help to minimize the risk of RSI. To seek a full recovery, the current medical treatment method is usually rest, physical, occupational therapy and pain-control using drugs. Surgical method exists, but is usually expensive and the chance of relapse and other complications exists.In this article, we wish to introduce a new type of medical treatment, Acupotomy for repetitive strain injury and other computer-related injuries that is very effective and could relieve the pain and discomfort of tens of thousands of computer working adults in near future. The articles are compiled from our interview with an Acupotomy practitioner and material from Acupotomy official website.

So, one day you decided to cut the cable and start using wireless connection instead of your old cable connection but as usual, new technologies come with new problems. When you are connected via wireless connection you may happen to run into disconnections so here you are, some tips.

 

The first thing is… why are you using a wireless connection? If you are just using it because you can use it, it is better for you not to do it anymore. Wireless connections are only useful if you have to put a long wire from the modem / router and you want to save that installation, but if you have the computer next to the router and you use wireless you are not making the most of your internet connection. If you can put a cable, forget the waves. Wireless connections are more unstable and less safe than a cable connection no matter how well do you protect them so, if there is a choice, use cable instead of wireless.

One day we open our computer and see a warning message from Windows saying that our hard disk space is running out. We do some cleanup by emptying the recycle bin, but the free space remaining in C drive is still low and we cannot defragment it as a result. Problem like this is likely to happen and recur. If you have no idea what is eating up the hard disk space and you haven't been keeping too much personal files or installed many programs, it will be a puzzling and annoying problem. This guide shows how to trouble-shoot such problem and is applicable to Windows XP and Vista.

 

Backup process is very important in computing as it minimizes the risk of losing important data when disaster strikes. But it could be a slow and arduous process if the amount of data that need to be protected is huge. In this review, we recommened a freeware, Cobian Backup, that helps to automate our backup process and saves us a lot of time. It can be used for synchronization of files between two locations as well.

 

We are aware of the existence of some online backup services that offer convenient backup of files to internet servers on a secure location. However, they didn't quite interest us, because to enable backup or restoration of files at anytime, the site need to have 100% uptime which is technically impossible. And using such a service would mean we are betting on the financial stability of the company and pray that they will not go bust within the lifetime of our data. Lastly, the storage space given is usually limited.One should also not rely on the software on our USB drive. Because some of these software choose what files to backup by themselves. This isn't helpful to us. Different drives have different software, that always takes time to configure. None of them offer the sophisticated options that Cobian Backup offers. Yet Cobian is very efficient in memory usage and also user-friendly. Since we started using Cobian we have deleted our backup batch file scripts.

 

During the days of win98/ME, an essential tool for windows trouble-shooting is the bootdisk. That is because back then, windows was notoriously easy to break. System files occasionally got corrupted, or the boot sector got messed up by a virus. When the system refused to boot, we called bootdisk in to help out.

 

Windows system of today is more stable, such scenarios rarely happen. But when they do happen, and when the standard recovery process fails, the downtime could be costly. Most often, the trouble prevents the user from retrieving important files that are stored inside the hard disk. The tool that has replaced bootdisk and comes to the rescue is a Linux LiveCD.

 

Windows users' impression of Linux had always been: a command-line driven OS, secure but not user-friendly, it can hardly accomplish anything produtive except being a good server. That impression has gradually changed since the day we were introduced to Ubuntu Linux, the most user-friendly Linux distribution out there.Today, most Windows tasks can be performed on Linux too. Even to a user who has never touched Linux in his/her life and one day finds the need to use Linux for the first time to retrieve a file from a computer on which windows is unable to boot, Linux isn't difficult to use. A little bit of patience, some time for trial and error is all that is needed to figure out how to get something done.