Friday, April 13, 2007

The Vista Backups That You Can't Have

In Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium, Microsoft left out the feature called Previous Versions. It saves older versions of documents and files, so for example you can rescue yesterday's copy of a budget spreadsheet if you clobbered and saved it today. In Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, you access Previous Versions by right-clicking on a file or folder and selecting Properties. If any backups are available, one of the tabs shown will be Previous Versions and you can retrieve those older versions.

Read the article HERE.

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Review: Top four external drives

We put four of the leading external hard drives to the test. Our criteria were simple: The drives had to have multiple connection technologies (USB 2.0 plus FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 or both), include backup software and have a capacity of at least 500GB. We ran four performance tests using four different PCs running Windows XP SP2.

The story reveals some big flaws in the external drives, like malfunctioning one-touch backup buttons, USB 2.0 ports that don't recognize the drives, and drives coming out of the boxes unformatted.

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