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External drives are perfect for backups, fast, easy to store securely.

If you image the C drive (with Norton Ghost for example) you can restore everything after a problem. Operating system, programs, data, whatever.

It's like the ultimate System Restore, no hunting for drivers or reinstalling applications.

That's what I do with my external drives.

You can image your other (data/documents?) partition as well.

Image backups do take a little longer than other styles of backup, but I think they're worth it.

Why couldn't I just copy & Paste or drag the C: drive to the external partition? What is the advantage of using progams like ghost?

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CurlingSteve

I have an 80gig external HD partitioned 50/50 I want to use for backups. Would you recemmend backing up the entire C: drive(since I have the space) or do just the necessary files?

And thanks for the lesson on EXE files.

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I'm trying to arrange my files for backing up and notice .exe files are found in Program Files as well as in My Documents. Is this normal or should they all be in one location? If they all should be in one location, which one is recommended?

Thank you!

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For unknown reasons the mouse pointer started working.  Nothing was done except rebooting 2 or 3 times since the problem arose.  I'm keeping an eye on it tho and also will remove that Kodak thingy.

Thanks tenmm.

BTW, what is the Warn: (0%) below my avatar in all my posts?  Did I do something wrong?  How much trouble am I in?

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For something that intermitent (sp), I would check out the connector at the CPU....

Is it a USB? Also check for an updated driver.

As far as the *warn* goes... we all have one, visable only to oneself. Kind of a hall monitor so-to-speak.

Thanks maxdog4.

[Defragging The Prefetch File]

Hahahaha....Ok here's is one you don't see around much but from the command line defrag c: -b will defrag the prefetch file and it really does make a difference on boot up if the file is really fragmented......

Hey il_wiccan, you have to explain to this newbie in simpler terms how this is done...please! Thanks.

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Thanks JD. Appreciate the Welcome too.

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For unknown reasons the mouse pointer started working. Nothing was done except rebooting 2 or 3 times since the problem arose. I'm keeping an eye on it tho and also will remove that Kodak thingy.

Thanks tenmm.

BTW, what is the Warn: (0%) below my avatar in all my posts? Did I do something wrong? How much trouble am I in?

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What is running in the background??

What is the % of CPU usage??

What O/S??

Kodak Software Updater Agent is running in the background.

CPU Usage fluctuates between zero and around 100%.

Mahalo

pueo38

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What is running in the background??

What is the % of CPU usage??

What O/S??

I got the info by phone so I can't answer your 1st two questions.

I believe the OS is XP Home.

I'm dialup so I have to log off and call for the other info.

[Problem With Ad-aware 1.04 Fixed]

Which Adaware is newer.....1.04 or SE?

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My freinds mouse pointer freezes up and won't move on power up. The hourglass icon appears intermittantly indicating something is busy in the background. Anyone has a fix or tell me where I can find a fix. Thanks!

Mahalo,

pueo38