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This guest post was written by James Ricketts who writes on a number of subjects related to Windows registry tools and PC fixes.
How to Backup Important Data
Research conducted by a major software company has reported that 9 out of 10 computer owners do not make regular backups of their data. If you belong to the majority in this survey, you have come to the right place.
This article provides a methodical approach towards developing an efficient backup plan. It discusses four important decisions that will help you create a backup strategy and ensure that your important data remains safe from hard disk failures, computer freezes and natural disasters.
Decision # 1: What Data to Backup

The Best 2008 Windows Vista Website.
Today I want to give some link love back to my fellow Bloggers and webmasters.
There are an unimaginable amount of weblogs and sites build around Office, XP and Vista. I have to add to this, that these are mostly more crappy than valuable.
The people over at the Windows Vista Club are holding a contest for the best Windows Vista website 2008. First of all if you don’t know the Windows Vista Club, be sure to check them out because it’s really a great site with very cool Tips and Tricks.
The final round of the contest is judged by a highly impressive team of judges.

3 Quick Tips for Windows Users.
You pay for Internet every month but do you know if your router is up-to-date? If it’s not up-to-date you may not be getting all the speed you deserve.
Microsoft’s Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool can tell you whether your router supports technologies for faster connections. The test can interrupt running connections, so try it at a time when you aren’t actively using the Internet.
If the results show that your system doesn’t support many of the technologies listed, you might want to look into the possibility of purchasing a newer router or (if you are an XP user) upgrading to Vista. The Microsoft site just happens to include links to routers that have earned the Windows Vista logo.
I Can Not Find My USB Drive In Vista.
Normally when you insert a USB drive into your computer you should hear a beep/sound and your USB flash drive should automatically appear in the device list of your computer. That is what should happen but sometimes it happens that your USB drive is not showing there. The most common reason that your USB drive isn’t showing is that your system assigns a drive letter to it that already is in use.
I couldn’t find my USB Drive and this is what happened to me.
This is my device list.

The first step is to open all your devices; it can happen that all of a sudden your lost USB drive is opened.

Cool Vista Trick: Create a Shortcut to Clear the Clipboard.
Earlier this week I received a blog post with a really genius tweak from a blog where I’m subscribed too. If you are not subscribed to this blog you better hurry up and do so because this blog is great. It’s called How-To Geek and it’s kind of a similar blog as this one.
How-To is more a blog with advanced tweaks for the geeks among us and this blog is a blog with useful tweaks that everyone can use and is more for everyday use. How-To is several years old and is a real authority in the geek sector and we are just starting out since this blog is only 6 months old.

Speed Up Browsing with this Quick Trick.
Today I have a pretty cool Tip and Trick for you and it isn’t a long tutorial for a change. Kind of refreshing isn’t it
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It’s a quick Trick for quicker surfing the net.
Instead of typing http://www.example.com you can just type "example" and then press CTRL+ENTER and it automatically puts in the http://www and the .com.
That’s it for today, see you all tomorrow.












