One of the worst case scenarios that can afflict a small business is a fire at your premises. This is traumatic enough but will be made worse by the realisation that all your PC's, servers and all your backup media...

 

In the previous post we talked about Folder Redirection which allows files and folders stored in My Documents and the Desktop to be redirected to a server. Now, you ask, what happens when the server is down or if you...

 

In this post we stressed the importance of taking backups and gave advice on getting started with this. Now let's take this on to the next level, where the aim will be to have scheduled backups taking place at regular...

 

Through our relationship with Door 22 we've been involved with a number of e-newsletters. Thus far all the clients had an existing mechanism for sending these, either through a CRM package or else a mass-mailing feature on their web site....

 

Yesterday's blog talked about the steps that you can take to minimise the risk of your personal email address falling into the hands of the spammers. However, if your small business has a web site then there are further considerations....

 

Once your email address get known to the spammers then essentially you are doomed to receive spam for the rest of eternity. You can follow the rules such as never replying and hope that it will eventually go away. Sadly...

 

Back in the days on Windows 98 the registry only had five restore points. However, the good news was that if your machine wouldn't boot because of a registry corruption then you could select to restore to any of these...

 

I hope Rose won't mind me printing an excerpt from her email: "My G$ hard drive imploded a week or so ago, making a grinding noise that the Mac engineer had never heard before. It had chapters for a book...

 

One of the more irritating features of Outlook is its desire to want to block attachments that it considers to be unsafe. I really don't want it to do that as I already have two mechanisms in place that perform...