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• Hard-drive imaging — AOMEI Backupper Standard

  Posted on October 23, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  At OlderGeeks.com, we test a lot of software. Sometimes we do so in a virtual machine that we can reset when things get out of control.

  But a lot of software deals with the actual hardware in a computer, so we must use our test system to assure that a rogue app does no harm. In that case, we make a drive image before we experiment.

  There are many free and open-source backup programs out there. Some do just file backups, and some also do total hard-drive imaging. That means they take a snapshot of your entire hard drive and save it as a single file, or perhaps a few files. In this article, I will concentrate on my favorite program in this class.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.43.0, 2023-10-23).

  Freeware Spotlight Backup, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Drive Imaging, Linux, Newsletters, USB drives, Windows PE

• Ratool — Because firewalls can’t stop everything

  Posted on March 14, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.11 • 2022-03-14

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Everyone is walking around with the storage of a 1990s supercomputer in their pockets. Jingling around with the pennies and nickels, flash drives are an old-school data thief’s best friend.

  Remember those first computer-hacker movies where the thief, spy, or 14-year-old had only a few minutes to copy a file from a computer before being caught red-handed? Oh, the suspense of watching that file-copy window slowly progress as the floppy drive ground away.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.11.0 (2022-03-14).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Newsletter 19.11.F (2022-03-14).

  Freeware Spotlight Blocking, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, External Drives, Newsletters, USB drives, Utilities

• Shift on autologous transfers?

  Posted on March 23, 2009 at 22:45 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Reader MA writes:

  You recommend using the “shift key workaround” when inserting memory rather than installing KB 967715. That makes sense for memory that may have been used on a variety of systems but do you extend the recommendation as well to memory that has been used only on one’s OWN system?

  No need to use the shift key if you’re re-inserting a USB drive or SD card that’s never seen another system. If your machine’s clean, the memory will be clean, too.

  Windows Patches/Security AutoPlay, autorun, USB drives