Some people like to add some Windows components after they installed operating system. Among these components, IIS may be the most common used. With IIS components, you can create FTP and WWW services, especially for web engineers. Sometimes, I use … Read More
How to Compress Files with Windows File Compression Utility?
Many people may recall WinRAR or WinZip when talking about file compression and how to compress files. Yes these file compression software are widely used. In fact many people use these file compression software to compress files before transferring them … Read More
Disable Startup and Remove Startup Record
Many computer users have this experience that after you install an application, it will start automatically when Windows boot. Bothersome, to make users run their software more often, the vendors think up so bad trick, as more startup records will … Read More
What is online backup? Advantage and disadvantages of online backup.
What is online backup? Online backup, also known as remote backup, is a method of offsite data storage in which files, folders, or the entire contents of a hard drive are regularly backed up on a remote server or computer … Read More
What is incremental backup?
Incremental Backup We have discussed full backup and differential backup before, today I’ll talk about Incremental Backup. Firstly, open My Computer and a partition, then right-click any folder and choose “Properties”. In “General” tab, click “Advanced”, then below window would … Read More
What is differential backup?
Differential Backup Every backup software provides full backup features, but few backup software provide differential backup. Why some backup software doesn’t provide differential backup? This could be related to two parts, differential backup is more complex to design compared to … Read More
Explanation about RAID, hardware raid and software raid
As computer hardware become cheaper and cheaper, many users begin to use RAID and larger hard disks. To the people who want to use RAID, you’d better make it clear that what RAID is and what the kinds of raid are, … Read More
How to change cluster size without reformatting?
All file systems that Windows XP uses to organize the hard disk are based on cluster (allocation unit) size, which represents the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. The smaller the cluster size, … Read More