Recent content by Bengie

This is also relevant for Windows 10 and can be scheduled exactly as described here.

Absolutely cracking advice, thank you Top Gun. The program isn't that intuitive for someone like me, we get slower as we get older and things get harder to take in at first go, however, I made a backup and then uninstalled lots of things like ccleaner and Skype and then did a restore and they...

That sounds great, thank you. I'll come back and let you know how it goes. :)

My thinking was that I didn't want it to come back saying something like 'can't activate' if I installed Office too many times. Is there a limit, do you know, to the amount of times Office can be activated? It cost a lot and I don't think my pension will cover having to buy it again should...

Hi guys. I would like to install my MS Office onto my second hard drive. No problem doing that, but, if I reinstall Windows, the links to office will be lost. How do I reinstate those links. What I want to do is not have to reinstall Office after every reinstall of Windows ?

Well I decided the time is right to have another play and do a recovery using all the wonderful help I received above. It all worked exactly as you said. The instruction given are on here are so clear and the posters so helpful. Thanks a million guys. ~I know running a forum like this isn't...

A better late than never update. I did get Macrium Reflect and it works a treat. Being well into my 70s, these things take me a while, but I really enjoy doing and learning. Thank you for your response and I've marked this thread solved.

Thank you so much for your help. I have done the rescue disk as well. I will come back and let you know in a couple of weeks if all is ok or not. It matters not if it didn't work right for me as I still have the recovery partition plus the recovery discs I burned. I'm not being sceptical...

Well I've done it and there are 2 files in the folder, one = 21,373,828 kb and the other = 9 kb. I assume that I open Macrium and click on 'Restore' should I have a problem ? Has this backed up my MS Office as well ?

I've done what you have said about the key and that is now written down, so that gives me encouragement to have a go at option 3. I have an external hard drive, so will have a go that way first.

Thank you so much ztruker but having had a read through that lot I fear that I've left it too late in life to understand it all. It is very complicated jumping back and forth between the different versions and retail and OEM or Pro and Home etc. I fear I will just have to do a recovery and go...

Will I have to enter a key? I don't now with the preinstalled Windows 8

One of the first things I did when I had my new PC last year was to make a set of recovery discs. Now having used the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 I would like to make a set of backup discs for this version, however, my pc say that a set has already been made and I can only make the one set. If...

Hello all. After reading some of the other problems, this might be an easy one. I have a recovery partition and use it quite often if I encounter any problems which are very few. I use CuteFTP to upload to a server but like all the programs, when I do a recovery the software is lost as well...