Easy File Recovery: Basic Backup Guidelines by Yuri Filimonov
You can skip these backup guidelines and do not backup if: you have never misedited a file and saved deleted a file by mistake never had to recover from a hard disk crash, a virus, a computer theft or other similar computer disaster. Probably, you may even think that you do not need to backup. ... If the importance of backup and easy file recovery has not yet become obvious, you may well conider ways to prevent the need to backup by increasing your file security by excellent proficiency. ... Also, you can use an extra backup medium to move the files from on computer to another for...

Still Using Traditional Storage Media? by Steven Cancel
Did you just download that amazing live concert of your favorite band on to your desktop computer? Now you scurry about trying to burn the concert on to a CDR, but the same error pops up every time? Not enough disk space. Carrying compact disks around is just extra baggage that you don't need in... You may think, "Why can't I send big files over email?" Well, file sharing through email is not a secure way to send file, and to be honest, e-mail isn't exactly made for large file transfers like movies.

What are MP4 Files - and What Do They Do? by David Bain
MP4 is short for ‘MPEG-4’. The official file extension for MPEG-4 is .mp4 – hence the shortened name MP4. MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality audio and pictures in an extremely small file size – ideal for playing on portable MP4 players such as the iPod Video. ... However, an MP4 file doesn’t only refer to video content – an MP4 file can also be an audio file. ... Other web based media players such as the Real Player will also play the MP4 file format as long as you have the latest version downloaded.

Uninstall Windows Media Player 10 and Start Enjoying Your Media Again by Ken Savage
Windows Media Player 10 has been full of bugs from Microsoft since they offered it as a download from their site. Windows Media Player 9 was nice and simple. Windows Media Player 10 is way too complex and feature-rich that it has taken away from the simpleness of version 9 and ruined itself. ... If you have installed Windows Media Player 10, you can roll back to the version of the Player that was on your computer before installing Windows Media Player 10. ... Click Remove a program Now do one of the following: If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 2, select the Show updates check box...

Convert DVR-MS File Recorded By Windows Media Center by Shirley Schweizer
What is DVR-MS? DVR-MS, a kind of media file format like WMV, is created by XP Media Center PCs. It uses the MPEG-2 standard Compression for video with some ‘extras’ like certain copy protections and so forth and audio compresses using MPEG-1 layer II. ... However, DVR-MS file without DRM may be played back on any machine with Windows XP SP1 and above as long as Windows Media Player is version 9 with hotfix 810243 applied. ... What everybody wants to do is to compress/convert/burn dvr-ms file. ... In general, DVR-MS file with DRM only allows it to be played on the machine that recorded it.

File Extensions and Associations in the Windows Environment by Greg Ashbaugh
File extensions are typically a 3 character extension on the end of a file, started with a dot. For example, a typical executable file in Windows is .exe. Sometimes you may never know this because file extensions are hidden in Windows. I typically prefer to leave the extensions on so I know what... Commonly when people produce viruses, they hide them with known file types such as .MP3, however the file is really an executable like .exe or a .bat file. ... Now that we know what file extensions and associates are, let me tell you why this is important to have file extensions showing.

Errors, Failures and Data Recovery by Shahbaz Ahmad
More than 20 years have been passed in personal computing. But still some issues have not been resolved completely. One of them is data backup and recovery. There are many ways one can lose his or her critical files and data either accidentally deletion of file or media corruption. ... When a file is deleted, the operating system marks the file name with a character that informs the computer that it has been deleted. ... These tools keep record of every deleted file by the operating system and can recover it if it is not overwritten by any newly created file.

You Don't need an iPod to listen to a Podcast, just some Free Software! by Mike Furlong
You don't need an iPod to listen to a Podcast! Or to an MP3, or an Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) file, or a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file? And although iPod is an a product from Apple, in many cases you don't need any Apple products to listen to a Podcast. ... Dropping these can make the file smaller and yet result in a file with little distinguishable sound differences from the original. ... When you purchase the music, you get a license for each WMA file and Windows Media Player will play these files (and record to CD if you have CD burner).

Where Did I Save That Document? by Laura Stack
What happened to the paperless office? We generate more paper now than we ever did before the advent of the computer! A computer's hard drive can get just as cluttered as any other part of the office. With seemingly limitless storage capacity, it's easy to create piles of files on your computer. ... You can still find that file you created using the "Search" feature of your operating system. ... Ask yourself, "If I want this file again, what words or phrases would I think of first?" 5. ... You will have Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations all in the same...

Removing viruses from your computer by George Royal
One of the biggest threats that computer users are facing today is the probability of a virus invasion. It is possible that your own PC might have been infected with a virus that you have downloaded unknowingly from the internet, or copied from other removable storage Medias like floppies or... In such cases it is enough to delete the file. ... When the infected file begins execution (when started by user, by operating system, or by another program), the virus changes its state from inactive to active, and begins to perform harmful activities on the system.