Business Computing Tips

By Karen Fainges

There is nothing more heartbreaking than loosing all the data on
your computer except not having a back-up. There are a few ways
to back up your work:

onto floppy discs, the problem there being that not everything
will fit onto a disc
burning onto CD-Roms - a burner cost between $200-$500 and the
CD's themselves are less than a dollar each if you buy them 10
at a time
using a zip drive or demountable drives. These are more
expensive and not as transportable but they are larger again.
For all these methods, you can copy items onto your hard drive
by using a program like Explorer. Click on the items you want to
save and then click, hold and drag them onto the right-hand side
of the screen. Then let go of the mouse and the files are saved.

Then if you ever have a corrupted file, or a busted system, you
can reload your files. Save a lot of heartache, back up
continually.

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Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's
the 14 years of having to make sales or starve that makes her
think she has really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor
for all ages, she specialises in helping people get started on
the long road to technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to
work."