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Learn (and do not neglect) to make and use system images of your PC

Nothing easier than making images of your system, provided you choose a convenient program. As for myself, I’ve found mainly two easy and powerful backup, imaging and cloning tools, Macrium Reflect and Aomei Backupper. You can try both of them to decide what to keep, but if you had to choose only one, it would […]

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Reinstall to repair Windows 10 without losing your programs, settings and apps

You may face critical problems that cannot (or you think they cannot) be solved but only by performing a fresh Windows setup. As you know Windows offers an option to reset your PC, i.e. to keep your personal files (not even settings), if you want to, and reinstall the OS. It is not difficult though […]

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If a Windows partition leaves unallocated space that you cannot merge

The other day I faced this strange problem. Having replaced my 120GB Kingston SSD with Samsung 860 Evo 500GB SSD, I used Macrium Reflect and a Disk Image I had taken with it to clone my old disk and use all my programs in the new one without having to install or configure anything at […]

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Best free backup, synchronization and cloning programs

SyncFolders will help you to synchronize folders and subfolders, letting you also exclude subfolders you may not wish to replicate. I like simple backup programs, without compression, etc or endless dialogues of obscure settings, which is the reason I was attracted for a long time by Karen’s Replicator, a simple and great program, which, however, […]

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To avoid or not KB4056892 or any particular Windows update?

KB4056892 is reported to have caused problems to several users. Not in my case though. I installed this update and the end of the world did not come. Some say you should avoid to get it. I wouldn’t recommend this solution. Many updates, just like this one, are critical, increasing system security. In my opinion, […]

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Create and manage restore points easily with Restore Point Creator

If creating Restore Points in Windows seems tedious, you can try this Restore Point Creator which is free from multiple menus, featuring a simple layout to let you create a Restore Point easily. All System Restore functionality that’s in this program uses approved Microsoft System Restore APIs and conforms to Microsoft specifications. All restore points […]

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Backup – Restore custom settings of apps, with CloneApp

What if you want to save and transfer or just keep for safety the options of Microsoft Word or other Office applications, the options of Photoshop, Audacity, Video Converter, eMule, Image Viewer, Foobar, and so many applications you may use having devoted a lot of time to configure them? CloneApp is a small portable utility […]

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Windows Recovery cannot recognize your system image backup?

In this post I will help you to get back your system, restoring it without the need of Windows Recovery, and then I will propose a way (that I follow myself) for better safety measures in the future, always using free applications. First of all, you need to convert the system image Windows created, in […]

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Clone your hard disk, even with data recovery from bad sectors, using Raw Copy

Raw Copy is a free program that will copy a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. It is designed for people who have a faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This sort of copy saves the need […]

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Batch clone PC system disks via multicasting, even remotely, with Clonezilla

Two types of Clonezilla are available, live and SE (server edition) and both are free. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore, while Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment; it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. […]

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