Losing your product key is something that happens to the best of us, especially when you’re as accident-prone as I am and misplace the box your Windows CD came in. Many people think about calling Microsoft tech support to resolve this issue, only to realize that they’re hitting a brick wall and wasting time. Instead of ruffling through tons of different CD/DVD cases you’ve kept over the years, you might decide to purchase a new product key or an entirely new license of Windows. Don’t make that mistake and keep that debit card in your wallet! You can use the registry to fetch the product key for your particular Windows license only if you use an older version of Windows, but Vista/7 need another procedure.
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How to Recover Your Windows Product Key
By | February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Titanium Backup: The Best Backup App For Android Power Users
By | March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Not all applications that are available on the Android market are free of charge. Some of the more useful apps can be had for a price. If you’re an Android power user, you’ve probably invested your fair share of money on higher end applications which may include any number of powerful utilities for your phone. Like any other customer, you want to make sure to protect your investment. In the case of your applications, it would mean backing all of them up. Although there are a variety of ways to do this, one of the best methods involves using Titanium Backup, available on the Android Market.
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Deja Dup Makes Backup A Simple Task [Linux]
By | March 17, 2011 | 4 Comments
There are plenty of backup options in Linux. We have covered a few here, namely, back in time, AptOnCD, and Rsync. Deja Dup Backup is yet another backup tool, except that it turns the whole complicated backup process into kid stuff.
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How To Backup Your iPhone Cydia Apps With PkgBackup
By | January 10, 2011 |
Apple iPhone is nothing without the apps. That’s the fact you have to face before and after you purchase your first iPhone.
While there are applications offered at a low price, most of them are offered for free. Even though you can access those free apps anytime you like, it will take much of your time reinstalling all of them should your iPhone fails.
The point is, why should you spend a day of two trying to remember and figure out what the apps you previously used when you can have them back in few clicks?
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How To Restore Deleted Files Using Recuva Portable In Windows 7
By | January 1, 2011 |
Sometimes you are working on your computer and a file is deleted by accident, or maybe you need to recover your lost photos from a memory card. Piriform, the creator of CCleaner, offers a free tool – Recuva that can help you to deal with this sort of problems.
This handy utility can even restore data after an installation of your new Operating System or a format of your computer. For me, this is a must-have tool.
Norm has previously covered how to use Recuva to recover long lost files. In this tutorial, we will cover the Recuva portable, a portable app that you can bring along in your USB.
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How to Backup Your iPhone Cydia Applications Before Upgrading, and Restore Them Thereafter
By | July 16, 2010 |
What every iPhone user should know is that, whenever you upgrade your jailbroken gadget to a new iOS, you will need to run the whole jailbreak process again. That being said, you will understand that all of your Cydia applications, as well as those which are built into iPhone applications, will be deleted permanently. Thus, you can never retrieve them after your upgrade. A good thing is, you can back your applications so that when the process is done, you can restore them from easily.
iPhone applications can easily be backed up using iTunes, but what about the Cydia Applications? No, these ones will NOT be taken care by iTunes.
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How to Restore Grub 2 As The Main Bootloader
By | May 5, 2010 |
For those who are having a dual (triple or quad) boot system in your computer, chances are, your bootloader might break when you update one OS to a newer version. If you are using Ubuntu (with the new Grub 2 bootloader) and you installed Windows. The Windows bootloader will erase your Grub 2 and you won’t be able to boot in your Ubuntu. As such, you will need to restore your bootloader to Grub 2.
Note: If you are still using the Grub legacy, check out this post to restore your Grub.
Requirement: Ubuntu (Karmic or Lucid) LiveCD (download it from Ubuntu.com)
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How to Create a Backup System Image in Windows 7
By | February 3, 2010 |
Even the tallest building in the World will come crashing down one day, not to mention your vulnerable operating system. The question is: when your system crashed, do you have the required backup to get it up and running again?
In Windows 7, there is this feature that allows you to clone your system to an image file so you can restore from it in the event some disasters happened. In this article, we are going to show you how to clone your system drive in Windows 7 and restore your system from that.
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Easily Backup Your Windows With Easeus Todo Backup
By | January 2, 2010 |
Easeus Todo is a free back up service for computers running Windows 2000 and newer. It is also compatible with Windows Server 2000/2003/2008. Todo not only can make backup images of your hard drives, it can also clone drives too. I am not going to go over that part of the application though.
Being a free option that actually works the way you need it too is a big benefit and to top it off, it is even easy to use. That’s a rare find for most free applications.
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Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive in Windows 7/Vista
By | December 18, 2009 |
There are a lot of software in internet, by which you can create and restore a backup of your hard drive but a large number among them does not work in Windows Vista/7. Often, at the time of restoration, the backup file made by a third party software either does not work or crash your operating system. So it’s preferable to create a backup by such a program which is provided by your operating system. Windows Vista/7 provides you this facility. Take a backup of your computer before system crash and store it in a safe location for restoration.
