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| Read the UnCorporate Blog |
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The newest addition to our Super Support Staff was introduced to Dynamic Edge culture early this spring by firing squad and total immersion.
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| QuickBooks Discontinues Older Software Products |
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On May 31, 2008, Intuit will discontinue support for QuickBooks 2005, Enterprise 5.0, and Point of Sale 4.0. Although the software will continue to function, you will no longer have access to services such as Bill Pay, Merchant Services, Online Billing, or Payroll!
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| Computer Security - What you need to know! |
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Have you ever wondered if your data is secure? Most people are aware to watch for the little lock on their computer when they are doing online transactions, but what about the data that is actually on your computer or laptop?
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| DE's Beard Contest Featured on Crain's Detroit! |
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See what Bruce, Tim & Rebecca had to say to Crain's Detroit about the DE X-Mas Beard Contest!
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| Make Your Own Backups! |
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| If you use computers for long enough, eventually you’ll lose data. It’s only a matter of time. Believe it or not, just copying the files you think are important isn’t enough. Your backups are the key to coming through a meltdown unscathed. Backups are necessary, easy and built into Windows. And I’m going to show you how to do them in a few short steps... |
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| CAREERS @ Dynamic Edge! |
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Are you crazy for technology? We are looking for a select group of people to fill the following positions:
- Web Developer
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| MAKE YOUR OWN BACKUPS |
If your computer caught on fire right now, could you recover the data you need? Would your payroll info be gone? Your bank records? Your taxes? While it is rare, computers have and do catch fire—and other data endangering disasters happen as well. If you use computers for long enough, eventually you’ll lose data. It’s only a matter of time. Believe it or not, just copying the files you think are important isn’t enough. Your backups are the key to coming through a meltdown unscathed. Backups are necessary, easy and built into Windows. And I’m going to show you how to do them in a few short steps.
Before I get started, please keep in mind that my example is from a computer running Windows XP Professional. If you are running Windows XP Home Edition, you will not have the backup application installed by default, and will need to acquire a copy. These steps should be able to be easily replicated in both Windows Vista and Windows 2000 professional. |
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| For this example, I am using a network path mapped to my “Z” drive. You can substitute any drive letter for ‘Z’ in my examples. |
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| You can find Backup under Start > All programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup |
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| When you first open the Backup utility, you will be greeted with the Backup Wizard. For our purposes we will not select “Advanced mode.” Select Next, and then we are presented with a nice window asking what we would like to do. At this time, we want to select “Back up files and settings”. |
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| From here, you can select what you wish to back up. The options are relatively self-explanitory. For full disaster recovery (or if you don’t always save your documents under the “My Documents” folder), select “All information on this computer”. Please keep in mind that this will use the most amount of space, so be sure to use a disk large enough to store the information! |
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| Click next again, and we are presented with the backup destination screen. Select your backup drive under “Choose a place to save your backup” (I used Z), and be sure to give your backup a descriptive name, like “October backup” |
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| Click next, and the backup begins. The Backup Progress window will display, the backup will run for a while, and then you are all backed up! That's all it takes! |
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Now in case of disaster, recovery is a snap!
- Open the backup application again
- In the second screen, select “Restore files” instead of back up files
- The restore file window will show like so below:
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| In this window you can expand your backup sets and view all the files stored in them. Each time you back up it creates a new set, so be sure to name them distinctively (better than my “My backup”) Expand until you get the files you want, click next, and it will restore the files to the location that they were originally stored at. |
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That’s all there is to backups. I highly recommend that you perform these steps at least once a month, or after completing an extremely important set of documents or changes.
Good luck! |
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