Once in a while it happens to every one of us, an Operating System crash of you computer.
Then you have to reformat your hard drive, reinstall the operating system. You cannot
prevent the loss of time you suffer while working to get everything in order again.
There are some very easy things you can do right now to make ensure your peace of mind
for your business. You need to be back up and running as quickly as possible in the event
of an operating system crash.
When you buy your computer, be sure to ask the dealer for a diskette or CD-ROM with the
drivers for every hardware component that is not standard in the operating system.
('Drivers' are those pieces of software that the operating system needs for handling a
hardware component.) Usually such a diskette or CD-ROM has an "autorun" program
stored: You just need to insert it in the diskette/CD-ROM drive – and the driver installs it.
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Document everything including usernames, passwords, merchant account numbers,
important websites and especially software unlock codes. Anything that is not written
down on paper is subject to be lost.
Back up your hard drive as necessary for how often you have new updates that you cannot
afford to lose or rebuild.
Important! If you have to completely reinstall your operating system, the "My Documents"
folder is usually lost. Make sure you don't forget this folder when you do the back up.
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Document everything including usernames, passwords, merchant account numbers,
important websites and especially software unlock codes. Anything that is not written
down on paper is subject to be lost.
Back up your hard drive as necessary for how often you have new updates that you cannot
afford to lose or rebuild.
Important! If you have to completely reinstall your operating system, the "My Documents"
folder is usually lost. Make sure you don't forget this folder when you do the back up.
When your p.c. is restored, you will be able to simply reinstall your software and
documents files from the disks you created. If you have access to a secondary p.c., you can
install your programs on the backup computer in the interim.
A "daily backup" is extremely important to everyone who is working on any "project" that
is more extensive than one day. It is important because only with that "security net" can
you work freely.
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In addition to 'daily backup', I prefer to do a 'weekly backup' every weekend. You should
use one directory on your portable computer for "long-term backup". Particularly if you
often download a software and don't have any physical representative of it.
Re-arrange the directory structure on your desktop computer , creating one primary root
directory, with a sub- directory for every application you use to work with. The subdirectories
under the root "Own" are only to take the data files associated with Winword,
Eudora or any other programs that create output.
Whenever you create or modify a file (whatever the file type), be sure to write/update the
current date in a comment line near the top.
Finally, let's not forget that, especially in computing there is hardly anything bad that
wouldn't have any positive side effect. Over time a lot of the "scrap" will assemble on your
hard drive. Nowadays that's not much of a problem, just some wasted storage space. But
remember the performance is diminished when the operating system has to struggle with a
lot of complicated entanglements.
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