Posts Tagged ‘Computer Users’

Secure Your Home Computer Free of Charge

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Keeping our computer safe from viruses and all other threats that come form surfing the net may often be a major problem. The majority of computer security software can be very expensive and not reachable for many computer users. However securing one’s home computer free of charge is something that everyone has to consider and take seriously.

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A Definition of Data Recovery for the Average Net Surfer

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

James Fohl is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular tool for personal online backup — Back2zip. This article can be found at http://free-backup.info/a-definition-of-data-recovery-for-the-average-net-surfer.html

Curious about data recovery?

Have you ever wondered what data recovery actually is? To answer this question, it is necessary to understand the basis of the need for data recovery. Have you ever lost data on your computer system? By data, of course I mean all of your important files that you have been saving over the years; photos, word documents, even your impressive MP3 collection. And by ‘lost’ I mean that the data was deleted from your hard disk, or lost due to a hard drive failure. In any case, it’s data that you wish you could have saved, but ultimately it’s gone.

Most computer users believe that once their data is lost, its lost forever. They often reload their system software and forget about data recovery, because most home users fail to even acknowledge the existence of the possibility of data recovery. However businesses, as well as many smart technical individuals have discovered many ways of recovering their lost data via processes simply known as data recovery.

Data recovery isn’t as difficult as it may sound.

Services are offered by a wide variety of specialized individuals, as well as in the form of many software applications. While it may sound confusing, it is very easy to tell whether you are in the need of software to assist you in your data recovery, or if you require a specialized individual to help you with your recovery efforts. With either case, it is possible to retrieve your ‘lost’ data, and perhaps save you from the assorted problems that would be sure to arise if you had indeed lost your data, and failed to make any attempt at a recovery effort.

When is data recovery software used?

Data recovery software is often used whenever files are deleted from a computer hard drive, either by fault of the user or by automated actions initiated by the computer’s software. The files may have been deleted from within your system, however by using the correct software it is possible to retrieve this deleted data. In the past few years, many advancements have been made in the development of this software. Data recovery software is targeted towards everyone, with emphasis on the home user and small businesses.

When is a data recovery specialist needed?

Data recovery specialists are required whenever your data has been corrupted due to a failure of your hard drive. It is possible for data recovery specialists to actually extract data and other information from a hard drive that is even in non working condition. This practice is usually targeted towards large businesses, or individuals who have a high demand for their lost data.

Data recovery solutions allows you to have faith in your computer.

With both data recovery specialists, and specialized software available to help retrieve your lost data, the next time you loose important data you will have options available to you that will help you get your data back. From now on, you have options to retrieve your data, instead of just forgetting about it and moving on.

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Using the Undelete Command in Windows 98/95, DOS

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

James Fohl is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular Amazon S3 based software for online data backup — Back2zip. This article can be found at http://free-backup.info/using-the-undelete-command-in-windows-98-95-dos.html

Using the Undelete Command in Windows 98/95, DOS

Early Windows users, as well as DOS users have a really great undelete tool built in to their systems. A lot of computer users are still running Windows 98, or below. While Windows XP has been on the market for more than three years now, some people have been hard pressed to make the upgrade, while others have found themselves completely happy with their Windows 98 setup.

Undelete is not available on Windows XP systems; only DOS and Windows 95-ME.

A really cool program that was in previous versions of Windows, as well as certain versions of MS-DOS is not available in Windows XP. The tool, Undelete is a DOS command prompt program that allows users to literally undelete the files that they had previously deleted.

The major limitation of the software is the fact that is can only recover files if no new files or changes have been made. So, basically the undelete command will allow you to recover files if you accidentally delete them, but it will not be able to recover files that you deleted a week ago.

Users should be experienced, as the undelete utility does not have a graphical user interface, and relies on text commands.

Undelete isn’t a flashy program. There are no graphics, and the program is not very user friendly. To start the program, you’ll need to activate a DOS prompt in your Windows operating system.

To do this, click the start button and select “Run”. Type in “command” and press enter. A black box with white text will soon be visible. This is the DOS prompt, and you will soon be able to use ‘Undelete‘ to undelete your files.

In order to use Undelete properly, you will have to learn the options for the program. As mentioned before, Undelete is a text based program, and does not have any spectacular user interface.

Undelete offers the user several different options to help recover your deleted files.

To gain access to the commands of Undelete, type in “Undelete /? ” at the DOS prompt, and press the enter key. The following text will be displayed on your screen;

/all – Automatically recovers all of the files you specify.

/list – All available files are listed (but files are not recovered).

/DOS Restricts recovery to those files that meet the file specifications (filespec) in the disk directory table.

/DT – Restricts recovery to those files found in the Delete Tracking File.

/DS – Restricts recovery to those files found in the SENTRY directory.

/load – Loads the Undelete memory-resident program into memory using information defined in the UNDELETE.INI file.

/unload – Unloads the memory-resident portion of the Undelete program from memory, turning off the capability to restore deleted files.

/purged[d] – Deletes the contents of the SENTRY directory.

/status – Displays the type of delete protection in effect for each drive.

/S[d] – Enables the Delete Sentry level of protection and loads the memory-resident portion of the UNDELETE program.

/Tdrive[-entries] – Enables the Delete Tracker level of protection and loads the memory-resident portion of the UNDELETE program. The optional entries parameter specifies the maximum number of entries in the deletion-tracking file (PCTRACKR.DEL). It must be a value in the range 1 through 999 with the default value determined by the type of disk being tracked.

After you have read through ‘Undelete’ program options, you will need to goto the specific directory of where you wish to undelete the files. Below is an example;

C:\> cd Downloads <- cd “change directory”

C:\Downloads\>

Once you are in the appropriate directory, rerun the ‘Undelete’ program, only this time fill in the correct options. For example, if you wanted to restore all files in the directory, you would use the ‘/all’ command. Below is an example;

C:\Downloads> undelete /all

The above command will allow the undelete software to safely recover your deleted files.

Now that you have an understanding of how the undelete software works on your operating system, the next time you find yourself worried about deleted files you can simply remember what you learned about the undelete command.

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Recover Your Data From a Crashed Hard Disk

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Most computer users believe that once their hard drives have crashed, that is the end of their information. I am here to encourage you that your data can be recovered. It all depends on the extent of damage on the hard disk but your data can be recovered.

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How to Remove the Google Hijack Virus and Make Sure You Never Get Another Infection Again

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

If you’ve been hit by it and are looking for a way to remove the Google Hijack Virus before you lose your mind, there is probably little consolation in knowing that you are not alone. This has been one of the most frustrating infections on the internet for several years and it continues to cause severe headaches for computer users around the globe. Thankfully however, there is light at the end of the tunnel because there is a way to remove the Google Hijack Virus which is quick and painless.

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