These items are all stored by the operating system in your system folder. On Windows 95, 98 and ME, this is generally called "WINDOWS", while on Windows 2000 and NT it is usually called either "WINNT" or "WINNT40" or something to that effect. When you install your operating system you can actually

So what do you do when you have so much stuff on your computer that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to back up the whole thing on a regular basis? You know that you must perform backups (the world is full of dangers to your computer and it's valuable data), but it's just become technically

All right, now you need to consider what software you will use to back up your data. Do it by hand - One possible method (which will not work if you are using a tape drive) is to simply copy files to your backup media by hand. This does have some advantages: - It does not cost anything. And after

Years from now, we will all look back on the summer of 2001 as one of the strangest summers in the history of the internet. We will surely laugh at the frantic gyrations of system administrators and security professionals because of a worm called "Code Red". We system administrators will most certainly

Okay, picture this ... your computer system has been destroyed by the most recent outbreak of the dreaded typhoid Mary virus. You never knew what hit you. One minute the system was fine. You received a nice email with an attachment which you opened, and boom, your system crashed. You rebooted but it