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Backups

Hide user accounts in Windows 7

October 14, 2009

Many times it is convenient to create a special administrator account that can be used for the task scheduler. Unfortunately, if your Windows 7 computer is not joined to a domain, any accounts you create are shown at the start-up screen: It would look better if you could remove this special account from the welcome [...]

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Free file sync tool from Microsoft

July 22, 2009

I had lunch last week with my good friend Brett. We were talking about synchronizing, and backing up files. I went on a long rant about how much I liked robocopy. After I finished talking about robocopy, he told me about SyncToy from Microsoft. SyncToy? I had never heard of it. The one drawback with [...]

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Backup your Gmail account

February 17, 2009

I have almost 4 years worth of emails in a Gmail account. I have tried using other services, and even ran my own email server – but I always find Google calling me back with their top notch spam protection. The problem with that is…well I have 4 years worth of emails. Many of them [...]

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