OT The "UN-Geek" needs 'puter help!

My DH (the geek in our family) has rescued my hard drive and his own a number of times with Go Back. If your computer won't boot at all for some reason, you can return to whatever your settings were a couple of days ago, when the blasted thing booted just fine. Then you have a chance to fix it. Of course, you will lose anything you saved since the Go Back rescue. But you ARE making backups of really important stuff on an external storage of some kind, right? (DH has me set up with File Sync, an ancient but supremely effective program that will compare ALL your files and update the ones that are different. I save everything about once a week to an external drive.) SO IMO re-install it. It does not return to Day 1 every time, it goes back to whatever you had the last time you turned off. Roberta in D

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There is a feature in Windows XP that is called a Restore Point and I set one just before I do a major install of a new program. That way, if the new program really screws something up (notice I blamed it on the program and not me :>), I can restore the computer back to the point prior to the install. I have a sense that is what the Norton Go-Back would be used for. HTH

I found that out the hard way. I had nothing but problems with Norton and dumped it and never looked back. I use the programs that come from my ISP and they cause me no problems at all.

Alice-

How does one "find" Restore Point in Windows XP??? And how does one do a back up??? I've had this computer since 6/04 and never did a back-up! YIKES!!!

Leslie (The Uninformed) & The Furbabies in MO.

Can't help you with restore point, I've never used it. I have go back in stalled on my computer and have never used that either.

I have had my current computer for about 3-4 years and have NEVER done a backup. I haven't backed up a computer in almost 10 years. I do however, back up all my important stuff. On a regular basis (how often depends on how much I've been doing), I put copies of my digital photos, databases, documents, finances and other stuff I don't want to loose on to CD or zip. I just got a new external hard drive that I may use instead now, we'll see. Anything else that is lost can be restored using program disks.

Leslie:

Click on the START button, go to ALL PROGRAMS, (just above the Start Button) go to ACCESSORIES, go to SYSTEM TOOLS.

At the bottom of that sub-menu you should see System Restore. You can click the button next to "Restore my computer to an earlier time," then click NEXT, to see if there are any Restore Points that were done automatically. (The calendar dates would be in Bold print.) If there are none, or you want to create one today, click Back, and change the radio button to "Create a Restore Point" and follow the directions.

HTH, Carey in MA

On the advice of my computer tech, I dumped Norton's and downloaded Grisoft AVG from their website. Doesn't cause near the problems that Norton's does.

That's a good choice. Just don't forget to update your virus database every day! Anti-virus software is not worth the space it takes up on your hard drive if it doesn't stay updated.

The system I have auto-updates whenever I am on line every 15 minutes invisible to me

Otherwise I would never rememebr LOL

I have it set to automatic update every day. I'm amazed at how many people have antivirus software that have 'never' updated it. They think once it's bought they're safe. I don't know why the software companies don't make that much cleared in the instructions - in BIG BIG LETTERS - on the front of the box, not buried in a book some place.

Those are the same people who install smoke alarms and never replace the batteries. Roberta in D

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True!!