If you use Microsoft Outlook as your email client and have used this application for more than a week, then by now you know that it is extremely prone to error. And while it is the best e-mail sorting and saving application available, the inherent flaws in Microsoft Outlook make it necessary to backup Outlook [...]
How would you read a PDF file if you did not have available Acrobat reader? Have you ever attempted to open a Microsoft Excel file when you do not have Excel installed to your PC? In both of these circumstances you will meet with abject failure and upon opening file with indifferent program find yourself [...]
The most commonly accidentally deleted or lost file types are digital photograph files. These are usually stored on a smart card or memory card. Sometimes they are stored on other digital media such as a USB flash or compact flash drive. Regardless of the file type you have lost due to damage or accidental deletion, [...]
It doesn’t take a major virus attack for your Microsoft Outlook program to stop working. In fact simply scanning incoming emails with an antivirus program can sufficiently damage the Microsoft Outlook PST file database tables so as to render your Microsoft Outlook inbox inoperable. Fortunately there many quality programs available designed to help you recover [...]
If you are having problems with lost messages on Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express you need to be aware that the process of recovering customization options and messaging on both of these Microsoft e-mail clients is extremely different. Microsoft Outlook stores your messages and customization options in a special database type file known as a [...]
Very often I am asked what is a partition and how does it differ from my computer’s internal hard drive? The reason people ask this is because partitions and hard disk drives are confused with one another. The answer or explanation to this is rather simple. The partition is a section of a computer’s hard [...]
While it is true that Windows 7 alleviates the need for much file recovery software with its ability to perform detailed system restore functions, it is also true that the vast majority of PC users are still using Windows Vista and Windows XP. It is for these computer operators that quality programs to recover deleted [...]
People often ask me how they can recover e-mail that has been sent or received on a free web based server. These free email services are great but they do not allow you access to their data storage so as to root around and look for messages you have accidentally deleted. While technically it is [...]
When attempting to do a manual drive wipe Windows owners should weigh the amount of time required to one by one overwrite the sectors of their hard disk drive as opposed to using a quality file shredder program for that purpose. Obviously the hours one would spend attempting to completely erase just one file would [...]
When you want to get rid of mail that is obsolete what do you do? You either tear it up manually into thousands of pieces or run it through a paper shredder. When you need to get rid of files on your computer, you pretty much need to do the same thing. And that is [...]