Congratulations! Computer prices are at an all-time low and now you are the proud owner of a new computer. It’s faster than your old one, has a larger hard drive and maybe gives you your first go at Microsoft Windows XP.
There is only one thing missing, all of your old data! This not only includes all of your treasured photographs and music but all of your Word and Excel documents as well as all of your internet browser favorites and your e-mail address book.
Transferring data from one computer to another is an unbelievable hassle, unless you know what you are doing. Although time consuming and a little cumbersome, there are steps you can take that will help the process be a bit more manageable.
The first thing that needs to be done is the new computer needs to be setup following the instructions that came with your new purchase.
Once that is up and running the amount of data that is to be transferred needs to be determined.
If there are limited files that need to be moved, the easiest method would be to burn the files on the old computer to a CD-ROM. Once the CD is burned the files can be downloaded to the hard drive of the new computer.
If the data transfer is greater than what can be held on a CD-ROM there are a few methods that will handle larger data migrations. The below mentioned methods will prevent the need to purchase pricey migration software.
- Via Network: This requires an in home network. If one is setup in the household or business, both computers need to be on the network. Once this is established both of the computer’s hard drives will be shared and files can easily be copied back and forth.
- Files and Settings Transfer Window: This is a tool that transfers data and Window Settings (mail and contacts for Outlook and Internet bookmarks) and is found in Windows XP. To find the tool, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and then Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. Once activated the Wizard will walk through the data transfer process step by step.
By: Cari Diaz
Computer Help – New Computer? Now What?
March 3rd, 2010 by admin No comments »Computer Home Business – What Does it Take to Make Money From Home?
March 2nd, 2010 by admin No comments »
Starting a computer home business is a very worthwhile endeavor, at least for some people. For others, it seems like they can work hours and hours and not have a dime to show for their efforts. Why is this?
There are a few reasons, in my opinion. What separates successful business owners from the wanna bees? The first is what I call opportunity hopping. I came across this a lot in the network marketing industry. Everybody is looking for that latest and greatest opportunity that will make them a killing without them having to do any work.
If you are looking for network marketing opportunities, you’ve probably come across tons of different companies, and are wondering which opportunity is really the best to make money.
I’m going to let you in on a secret that they don’t want you to know-it really doesn’t matter which you sign up with. Most people think it’s all about the system, but the truth is, you can make a killing in any system on the planet.
Is this to say the system you follow isn’t important? Not at all. However, your success or failure really comes down to your ability to market. If you are a good marketer, you can make money with any company or computer home business opportunity, and if you can’t market, you won’t make a dime regardless of how great the system might be.
The most successful network marketing distributors don’t use the generic company website. Instead, they created their own sales copy, auto responders, etc, and tested them out on a bunch of different keywords to see which ones convert well and which don’t.
Once they do this, they then continue advertising on those keywords, generate leads, follow up with up with them over the phone, explain the opportunity, and generally, direct them to a company conference call. After that, they will follow up with the prospect, and hopefully get them to sign up.
This is more or less the activity you will be doing with any network marketing company. In other words, your success depends entirely on you, and not the system.
This is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful, not just in network marketing, but in any computer home business opportunity. The truth is, I’m using network marketing to make a point-most people are not willing to do the work or testing necessary to make money, and instead want that magic system to do everything for them.
The truth is, such a system doesn’t exist. If you want to make big money online or offline, and with network marketing or anything else, it will depend on you learning marketing and advertising, and in the case of network marketing, over the phone selling.
Not as easy as you thought? The truth is, if it were as easy to make money online as many would have you believe, everybody would be making money online big time. How many people do you know off hand who are making a full time income online?
Not many? Me neither. The reality is, making money online is very possible, but it will require a lot of hard work and dedication on your part, and this is how to make money with a computer home business.
By: George Mitchell
