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...]

I’ve reported on my experiences with Windows 8 before, most recently here. Yesterday, I installed the RTM version that will be shipping in October. There were a couple of glitches, but all in all, it was pretty easy. I had a public version of the Preview version of the … [Read more...]

I’ve been running Dragon naturally speaking 11.5. Today, it offered me the opportunity to upgrade to version 12. Since I am a fairly intensive user of the program – I use it only for text dictation, not for command and control – I leapt at the chance. In this post, I will tell … [Read more...]