As I was walking down the street one day… …I started to wonder what was happening to my network. Some of the NAS servers were dropping out of what used to be called the “Network Neighborhood”; the workstations couldn’t see them in an Explorer window, although if you entered … [Read more...]

After yesterday’s experience with Acronis True Image under Windows 8, I went looking for alternate disk cloning software. Years ago, PC Magazine recommended Acronis, and that’s when I switched from Drive Image and Ghost. I checked out what the magazine is currently touting. It’s … [Read more...]

  I went to the Acronis web site, logged in, and clicked on support. I told them about my problem, and contemplated my options: I decided to go for paid telephone support, although I resent having to pay for initial use problems. I saw this: Ah, well. I … [Read more...]

I got an email this morning from Acronis, saying they had a new version of True Image available. It was touted as having better file synching capabilities, and compatibility with Win 8. Yesterday, I had successfully created a backup of a Win 8 partition using True Image 2010, so … [Read more...]

The 32-bit Windows 8 installation reported on in the last post went well, but left me with some questions. In order to get a handle on them, I decided to try an upgrade from 64-bit Windows 7 to 64-bit Windows 8. My first problem was trying to get the upgrade software to run. … [Read more...]