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Sunny hit this:

http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/index.aspx

download the program and run it, then post the results.

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That one?

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One of them sunny? A Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter?

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Well the problem we faced has a company was we were spending too much time on computer maintenance. I think the system were down about 2 hours a day for back-ups and ant virus scans.

So I did bring in an outside “IT” company to up date and improve our working systems.

The “point of sale” invoicing and credit payment system has work using laptops, portable printers and hand-held wireless credit card payment units and now is the main stream of payment for “opportunely” sales from the likes of yellow pages.

I have a feeling the size of the “back-ups” is in response to the limits of the mobile broadband service we currently using.

I am fairy good with computers, but I would never be able to integrate 12 laptops, 4 desktops and an office server.

It was a sizeable investment, but has saved the “layabouts” in the office a lot of paper work and time.

The “magic card” is a credit card that fits in all of our computers, (its basic chip and pin card) and the computers will not boot into windows without it.

The “magic card” system has been a pointless waste of time, people just leave them in all the time and never remove them from there computers.

This thread has hight-lighted how little myself and my staff know about current computer system, I think like most company’s the moment it “out sourced” we lose interest.

But for home users I feel that cheap dvd’s are better than flash drives. The main reason is cost, its ok spending £10 on a usb flash drive, but if you lose it, you have had it.

The only time most people copy there files is when they are moving them from an old computer to a new one. This is a one “hit” operation and buying a tool that will only be use once would be a waste of money.

I believe most home computers users have never back up there hard drives and never will.

There are weakness with all drives and file saving formats.

I do understand the problems you have had in the last few weeks and why you are looking for a “better” way to back-up your system.

There is only one real way to “back-up” doc’s files, make hard copy’s like we do. I know it takes up a lot of space but that’s what lofts are for.

Other programs are better off being stored on line storage sites, yes I understand there slow up loading and can be costly but its the only reliable way.

If they lose your dada, you have someone to blame and can claim.

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Right just been off the phone to them.

To meet the requirements of the dada protection act, all files are encoded and secured with “magic card”. Back-up’s are on a continuous loop to our on-line service sever using encrypted compressed dada stream. No backs up are held on your company premises encase of theft, fraud or misuse.

I think the “magic card” is that bit of plastic that’s been stuck in me computer for the last 2 years.

I did wonder what it did, better start removing when I log off

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Your right that does seem a bit small.

Will have to investigated and find out why its so small.

I know we have 5 hard drives in the sever, but after our upgrade 2 years ago, not sure how the current office system works.

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But I still can’t see anyone needing a 8GB stick.

Unless you have loads of music or tons of software, why would yo need anything over 1GB

I did look at our office hard driv and in the last 5 years we have only use 340mb for work files.

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That is true, but if you need to move all your files, lets say for presentation, you are better off with a portable hard drive.

Saying that, i do know of a remote access program that will let you work and use any file on your computer from anywhere in the world.

I think if your only doing back ups, one hit dvd’s are the best way of doing it.

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Here the main problem.

There are minimum system requirements for operating systems like windows xp and vista.

Windows xp

500Mhz chip

512mb Ram

4 gig hard drive

Windows Vista

Dual Core chip

2 Gb ram

20 gig hard drive.

If the computer you are using now, dont meet the system requirements, you are wasting your time.

If this was me……….

I would shop around for a new one, they start about £300

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Look, your computer is working has well as PB nob.

Face up to facts, a quick 2 min bang and its game over for the of the night.

Replace it while it’s still working, if you don’t you could lose every thing on it for good.

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