I have been using my HP Laptop for quiet some time and when I purchased it windows 7 was the optimal operating system. It seems everyone wants to use apps now so along comes windows 8. How is it?
I absolutely love windows 8 but before installing it I did a lot of reading. There was a problem even after reading the books available about the program. I did not want to lose all my data so I elected to do an install that was suppose to allow me to keep my data. It did not. I had pages and pages of MS Word and Excel data installed on that laptop.
Fortunately I had started using a program called Sugar Sync several months ago. I really didn't know just how good this program was until some friends came to visit us for a dinner visit one evening and we were discussing computers. Whey I told him about losing all my word files he said, "they are probably saved in Sugar Sync." We discussed this some more and he explained that all I had to do was login to my Sugar Sync account and re sync to my computer. About twenty minutes later every last file I thought sure was totally gone to a cyber grave were re-installed on my new/old computer.
I totally recommend windows 8 and additionally the Sugar Sync program.
Have a wonderful experience with your computer.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
INSTALLING A NEW ROUTER
INSTALLING A NEW ROUTER
Have you ever had a problem installing a new router? Well, I must admit this past week I made a very common mistake and worked for two days before I finally called the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for help. The router I bought was advertised as "simple installation." That should have alerted me but it didn't, I ventured headlong into the project and removed the old one that was causing problems (about 5 years old) and followed the instructions carefully and when I finished hooking it up, it would not connect. For IP address I selected Automatic thinking it would automatically make the proper selections. Wrong.
I am sure you know the things that can happen when you make an "assumption." Well there was one question that I made an assumption about and of course I assumed wrong. There was one point where I had to make a decision about my connection being either a "dynamic" or "static". I did not think any place used static any more but our system did. Two days later when I finally called the IP he sat down at my desk changed it from dynamic to static, then entered each of the addresses and wall la instant interned. The simple things can sometimes just get in the way and we make ridiculous decisions and feel about two inches high after the fact.
The point of this is, don't overlook the small things and don't be afraid to ask questions when you are not sure about something.
Have you ever had a problem installing a new router? Well, I must admit this past week I made a very common mistake and worked for two days before I finally called the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for help. The router I bought was advertised as "simple installation." That should have alerted me but it didn't, I ventured headlong into the project and removed the old one that was causing problems (about 5 years old) and followed the instructions carefully and when I finished hooking it up, it would not connect. For IP address I selected Automatic thinking it would automatically make the proper selections. Wrong.
I am sure you know the things that can happen when you make an "assumption." Well there was one question that I made an assumption about and of course I assumed wrong. There was one point where I had to make a decision about my connection being either a "dynamic" or "static". I did not think any place used static any more but our system did. Two days later when I finally called the IP he sat down at my desk changed it from dynamic to static, then entered each of the addresses and wall la instant interned. The simple things can sometimes just get in the way and we make ridiculous decisions and feel about two inches high after the fact.
The point of this is, don't overlook the small things and don't be afraid to ask questions when you are not sure about something.
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