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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
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 $100-$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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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
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."
